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Thursday, April 28, 1966 The Daily Nebraskan Vol. 81, No. 100
Committees Report fy
ernes
By Jan Itkio
Senior Staff Writer
The lack of a quorum at
Wednesday's Student Senate
meeting prevented the enact
ment of any measures, but
Loyalty Oath Invalid?
By Julie Morris
Senior Staff Writer
The University, the Board
of Regents, and the State of
Nebraska have been named
defendants in a suit filed Tues
day by a former University
employee and the wife of a
University graduate student.
The suit, filed by the attor
ney for Mrs. Al (Killeen)
Spangler, asks that Nebras
ka's 15-year-old loyalty oath
required of all state employ
ees be declared "invalid, un
constitutional and ineffec
tive." Her husband is a graduate
student in philosophy. M r s.
Spangler has taken part-time
courses at the University.
Mrs. Spangler was fired
from a position as a secretary-typist
in the press section
of the East Campus Informa
tion Office last Friday when
she refused to sign the loyalty
oath.
After Two Weeks
Mrs. Spangler reported that
she was not asked to sign the
oath until two weeks after she
was hired. She was fired on
the day that she refused to
sign the oath.
The oath reads in part that
the undersigned will support
and defend the Constitution of
the United States and that the
undersigned does not belong
to any organization that advo
cates the overthrow of the
government.
Roy Loudon, director of per
sonnel, said that two weeks is
the normal amount of time
that elapses between the hir
ing of an employee and the
request that he sign the loyal
ty oath. Loudon indicated that
this is the situation because
hiring is handled by the de-
Harnsberger
Our Error
The pictures of Richard S.
Harnsberger, professor of law
at the University, and John
Rousselot, national director
of public relations for the
John Birch Society, were
mixed in Wednesday's Daily
Nebraskan.
Harnsberger, and Dr. Wil
liam L. CoMlle, associate
professor of agronomy, re
ceived distinguished teaching
awards from the Nebraska
Foundation at the Honors
Convocation Tuesday morn
ing. A member of the. Order of
the Coif, the University Sen
ate committee on academic
privilege and tenure and a
trustee of the Rocky Moun
tain Mineral Law Foundation,
Harnsberger. received the
award in humanities and so
cial sciences.
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final reports of the commit
tees were presented.
According to vice president
Larry Frolik, the meeting was
originally scheduled to ratify
Student Tribunal ap
partments involved and there
is red tape involved in notify
ing the central office of an ap
pointment. Employes are not notified
that the oath must be signed
when they are hired, Loudon
said, but added that t h e y do
receive an employee's hand
book "that spells it out."
Mrs. Spangler contends that
she did not receive this hand
book until two weeks after she
began her job.
Required
All full-time employees of
the University and of the state
are required to sign the oath,
Loudon said. Public school
teachers must also sign, he
noted, as must graduate assis
tants. The Spangler suit contends
that the oath is invalid be
cause "It violates freedom of
speech, expression and asso
ciation. It may compel self
incrimination and may in
criminate the innocent. The
oath infringes upon religious
liberty and fosters an estab
lishment of religion in viola
tion of the Constitutions of Ne
braska and the United'
States."
A portion of the oath reads,
"So help me God."
Mrs. Spangler contends that
Rules For
Presented
By Nancy Hendrickson
Junior Staff Writer
The details of a senior key
system were presented at the
Tuesday AWS meeting and
will be voted upon at the next
meeting.
Carol Bischoff, senior key
committee chairman, intro
duced the rules, explaining
that they were a compilation
of other school's senior key
systems.
"T h e whole philosophy of
the key system is that seniors
are mature enough to set
their own hours," Dean Helen
Snyder reminded AWS board
members. In considering the
proposals, she said that intel
ligence and a sense of decency
is assumed.
Registered Senior
The proposal states that a
girl must be registered a sen
ior as established by the offi
cial University standards to
be eligible for the senior key
system.
She must also have written
permission from her parents,
have a 2.0 overall grade aver
age, be willing to pay her
part of the cost of the system,
attend an orientation session
and be willing to take key
duty.
The keeper of the keys will
check out keys during the.
hours designated by the indi
vidual living unit.
Key Keeper
The housemother will work
with the keeper of the keys in
checking that all keys are re
turned and in giving special
permission to check out a key
at any time other than the des
ignated time.
A key is to be returned im
mediately when a girl returns.
The key is for extended hours
only and overnights may be
taken by. the regular proce
dure. If a girl loses her key, she
pays for the installation of a
new lock and loses her key
privileges for 30 days.
pointments and rule on six or
ganizations' constitutions and
four organizations' amend
ments. "We lack a quorum," he
stated. "Only 18 senators are
she has a "right to be consid
ered for public employment on
the basis of her merits and
abilities and not to be arbi
trarily and unlawfully disqual
ified on the bais of an invalid
oath requirement."
Unpaid Salary
The suit filed also asks for
the payment of $225 in unpaid
salary from the University at
6 per annum interest from
April 21 until paid plus court
costs. Loudon said the salary
has not been paid as a point
of legal order whether the
money is due Mrs. Spangler
or not because she did not
sign the oath as required.
Spangler said he is "fairly
confident" that his wife will
win her suit. He pointed out
that this is the first time the
Nebraska oath has been chal
lenged in court.
In recent decisions, loyalty
oaths for teachers in Idaho
and Georgia have been cut
down by the courts and chal
lenges have been made in
Massachusetts, California and
Colorado.
"I don't know how we can't
win" the suit, Mrs. Spangler
stated. She said she personal
ly feels the issue in the suit
is that the oath is a "violation
of my constitutionally guaran
teed freedom."
Senior Key System
For AWS Approval
A 14-day key privilege pen
alty is imposed if a girl does
not return her key upon her
arrival.
If a girl loans her key to
any other girl, both girls will
permanently lose their key
privileges.
Another 14-day privilege
penalty will be given to any
one who fails to take duty as
keeper of the keys.
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iSub-Rosa's
Sub-rosas are still present
on the University campus, ac
cording to a former president
of the Interfraternity Council.
Don Ferguson, who was IFC
president in the early 1960's
and editor of the Daily Ne
braskan, told IFC Wednesday
night he did not know how
many sub - rosa members
there are today, but that evi
dence showed they do exist.
Ferguson, who is often
credited to a large extent
with getting rid of sub-rosas
on campus in 1961, s a i d a
number of students had re
prted being contacted by
some type of sub-rosa group
last fall.
He noted that a Tau Nu
Epsilon (TNE) banner had
been flown over the football
stadium by an airplane dur
ing Homecoming this year.
"The problem is still here
today, but it does have cures
and the biggest cure is edu
cation. Only by informing
your members and indoctri
nating them on what they face
if they join a sub-rosa can you
continue to cure this prob
lem," he said.
Ferguson admitted that it
is difficult for students at the
University now to have a per
spective about the sub-rosa
present and 22 are needed for
a quorum, so the business
will have to wait until next
meeting."
Committee Reports
The meeting consisted pri
marily of reports by the
ASUN committees on their
projects of the past year and
recommendations for next
year.
Jim Pittehger, University
ticket manager, reported on a
method of advanced sales for "
student football tickets estab
lished by himself and Sena
tors Terry Schaaf, Bob Sam
uelson and Bob Lott.
According to the procedure,
students may buy football
tickets in the spring for next
year by lottery. Those stu
dents not buying in the spring
and new students may buy
tickets in the fall on a first-come-first-served
basis.
Bank In Union
A local bank "has shown a
great deal of interest" in
establishing a branch at the
Nebraska Union for check
chasing and depositing pur
poses, reported Sen. Andy
Taube.
Work on the project, he
added, would probably begin
during the summer or early
next fall.
Sen. Sally Morrow reported
that after a study her ad
visory board committee had
completed, the following rec
ommendations would be
made.
Each advisory board should
have its own constitution.
The boards should be en
larged to include an ASUN
senator.
Cont. Pg. 3, Col. 8
Misuse of the key system,
may be brought to the atten
tion of the AWS board for ap
propriate action.
Also to be voted upon next
week are changes in the AWS
constitution. Candy May, con
stitutional committee chair
man, explained that changes
were incorporated into the
constitution so that it would
conform with the ASUN mod
el constitution.
'StiM Exist On Campus
problem because the groups
haven't really been active in
the last three years.
He described sub-rosas as a
"cancer that gets in a frater
nity and eats away the basic
fiber of the fraternity house"
and he noted that they were
"politically disruptive" on a
university campus.
The former IFC president
explained that a fraternity
member who joins a sub-rosa
soon finds his loyalty drifting
from the house to this outside
group.
He said that when sub-rosas
take over campus organiza
tions, a student's merits do
not matter, but only his mem
bership in the secret group.
He noted that IFC matters
used to be decided in secret
sub-rosa meetings and then
dictated to the IFC members.
Ferguson pointed out that
the main sub-rosa in Ne
braska's history, TNE, was
first dissolved in 1951 by the
University administration.
He said that following the
break up of the TNE's, a com
pletely new sub-rosa, the Pi
Xi's, was formed on the Ne
braska campus. This group
dominated nearly all campus
organizations for several
years until the late 1950's.
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LINES FORMED ... in the Love Library, Union, and
East Union as University students went to the polls to
choose representatives and executive leaders for the
coming year's student government.
'Personal Contact
Influences Voters
Personal contact apparent
ly was the big factor in de
termining student's presiden
tial vote according to a sur
vey conducted by the Daily
Nebraskan Wednesday.
Of 100 persons interviewed,
76 indicated that in making
their decision on the presiden
tial ballot, personal contact
by the candidates either
through work with them, or
merely meeting them person
ally had been the decisive
factor.
75 of the girls and 77 of
the boys indicated this person
al contact to be a factor.
Of 50 people interviewed,
26 said that they knew eith
er one or both of the candi
dates they did not vote for.
It was this question on
which sex of the voter was
significant. Nine of the 29
girls or 34 said they, knew
the persons who they had not
voted for, but only four of 21
boys or 19 said they knew
or had been personally con-
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There was also a sorority
sub-rosa, the Red Dots.
In 1959, he said, the TNE's
returned to the University
campus and took control of
all campus activities away
from the Pi Xi's.
Ferguson explained that be
tween 1959 and 1961 many
people on campus began to
fight the sub-rosas until in
1961 the Daily Nebraskan ex
posed many of their secrets.
He said that in December of
1961 a group of sub-rosa mem
bers were caught painting
symbols on the University
campus and were suspended
from the school.
The following spring, G. Ro
bert Ross, vice chancellor and
dean of men, made the sub
rosas surrender all their re
cords and promise to end
their activities on the campus.
Ferguson noted that a pro
mise from a sub-rosa can not
usually be taken seriously.
He stressed that member
ship in sub-rosa organizations
is against the rules of all na
tional fraternities, the
National Interfraternity Coun
cil and the University. He
said the national government
had even considered listing
them as subversive groups at
different times.
tacted by the candidates they
had not voted for.
One of the chief factors in
fluencing voters were articles
and editorials written by the
Daily Nebraskan. About 49
of the 100 persons interviewed
said stories written about the
candidates and the editorial
endorsing candidates had in
fluenced their choice.
Speeches in various resi
dences were indicated by 38
of the students as affecting
their choice for president.
Posters apparently affected
fewer students than most oth
er campaign devices. Only
28 of the students said they
had been influenced in their
vote by campaign posters.
Many of the students said,
they had, in fact, been influ
enced adversely by the post
ers. "The posters are all alike,"
commented one student.
"There should be more varie
ty." On the other hand, a female
student said she voted as she
did because she "didn't see
posters for either of the other
candidates ... and I thought
if they were interested
enough, they would have
more posters up somewhere."
Several students said that
speeches given in residences
also affected them adversely.
"Most of the residence hall
speeches caused me to vote
against that person," said
one student.
Many students said they
considered their experience
in working with the candi
dates on various functions
and also other people's ex
perience with the candidate
when voting.
One student admitted that
he had hot voted for the of
fice of president, comment
ing, "I didn't know either of
the candidates and rather
than make a choice for a
person I didn't know, I didn't
vote."
Regarding the influence of
editorial endorsement,
a male student said he didn't
like the newspaper coming
out in favor of any candidate
"whether I support that can
didate or not."
"A student newspaper
should represent 'student opin
ion and I don't think one edi
tor's opinion is representa
tive of 9 newspaper or a stu
dent body," he added.
. Another said nonchalantly,
"I never read the editorial."
Is Doerr
Garnering approximately
one-half of the votes, Terry
Srhaaf was elected President
in the ASUN elections Wednes
day. According to the unofficial
figures, Schaaf won 1951 votes
of 4008 total votes cast.
Roger Doerr was elected
first vice-president, and Bob
Samuelson won the second
vice-presidential seat.
The figures have not yet
been released, but the amend
ment for the creation of the
office of second vice-president
overwhelmingly passed.
The unofficial results of the
election are:
President:
Schaaf 1951
Abbott 1069
Snyder 768
First Vice-President:
Doerr 1943
Taube 1134
Prier 586
McClanahan 197
Second Vice-President:
Samuelson . 1395
Boardman 1346
Thompson 1246
Arts and Sciences:
(Nine Seats)
Aitken 627
PHefer 490
Thompson 472
McClymont 468
Neumeister 371
Baker 291 .
Phelps 355
Rose 267
Lonnquist 25H
Keim 257
Vanderhoof 254
Grossman 229
Teachers:
(Seven Seats)
Bitner .' 575
Wood 549
Westerherg 488
Muller 339
Andreason 325
Klimes 314
Bedient 300
Business Administration:
(Four Seats)
Adams 148
Hohensee 135
Probasco 123
Olson 113
Engineering:
(Four Seats)
Schulze 156
Strayer 93
Tucker 7
Voss 86
Hansmire 83
Jess 83
Graduate .
. (Six Seats available,. but only
three candidates received the
25 vote minimum.)
Abbott 88
Gerlaeh 64
Samuelson 49
Professional:
(One Seat).
Sensensy 55
Tooley 33
Due to the fact that the to
tals will be unofficial until re
checking Thursday, the Daily
Nebraskan's list includes
more than the number of win
ners possible in some of the
colleges where the vote is
close.
Also due to the fact that
only three candidates receiv
ed the minimum number of
votes required in Graduate
College, three of Graduate Col
lege six possible seats will
be distributed to some of the
other colleges. Bob Samuel
son's seat in graduate college
may also be given to another
college because he was elected
second vice-president in addi
tion to Senate.
Navy Title
Intervieivs
Thursday
The preliminary interviews
for "Miss Midshipman" will
be held Thursday at 7 p.m. in
room 332 Nebraska Union,
according to F. C. Green, se
lections chairman.
Three finalists will be se
lected at this time and the
Navy ROTC batallion will
vote to determine the 1966-67
"Miss Midshipman."
The candidates will be
judged on personality, poise,
appearance and a knowledge
and interest in the military
services.
The preliminary finalists
and times for their interviews
are:
Chris S c h a r y, 7; Nancy
Powell, 7:08; Marsha Lester,
7:16; Nyla Sokup, 7:24;
Dianne Berger. 7:32; Cheryl
Mayta, 7:40: Tory Haynes,
7:48; Gary Weber, 7:56; Lin
da Olmstead, 8:04; Jan Do
minago, 8:12; Barbara Trupe,
8:20; Marlene Schreider, 8:28;
Vicky Weber. 8:36; Shirly
Waggoner, 8:44; and Christiii
Schwartz 8 JiL .
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