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Thursday, November 9, 1967
University of Nebraska
Vol. 91, No. 35
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MOD ART? . . . Win
dow decorations liven
up the stone facade of
the dormitories.
Senators
Criticize
Tiemaim
For Attacking
Gregory Speech
Student Senators were cri
tical Wednesday of Gov. Nor
foert T. Tiemann's remark
last week concerning the re
action of University faculty at
a speech delivered by Dick
Gregory at the East Campus
Union.
Before passing a resolution
"on academic freedom at the
University," several of the re
presentatives at the Senate
meeting, expressed concern
over Tiemann's criticism of
faculty members who cheered
Gregory's speech.
The Governor was reported
by several newspapers as
saying that he would like to
have the names of the instruc
tors who had cheered Greg
ory's remarks.
Gregory expressed what
some observers have termed
a "militant" opinion on civil
rights and freedom.
"The students have to do
something about this if t h e
faculty will not," said Sena
tor Craig Dreezen, who sup
ported the resolution. "There
is a threat to academic free
dom. "It is the principle that is
important," he said, adding
that he believed the Governor
6hould not have made the re
marks critical any speaker on
the campus because of that
speaker's views.
Passed overwhelmingly by
voice vote, the resolution pro
posed by Phil Boardman
reads:
"Whereas, there has recent
ly been public disapproval of
certain faculty members' re
sponse to controversial issues,
and
"Whereas, freedom of ex
pression is an essential part
of traditional academic free
dom at the University of Ne
braska, therefore
"Be it resolved: that the
ASUN Senate respects the
right to the faculty to express
their opinions and supports
Chancellor CUfford Hardin in
his att3mo!s to quarantee
those traditional academic
freedoms, qnd stonglv urges
the faculty to take appropri
ate action through the Amer
ican Association of University
Professors or other means."
Boardman supported the
resolution for reasons he out
lined as
Students
By ANDY CORRIGAN
Senior Staff Senior
In an effort to "dump John
son" at the 1968 National
Democratic Convention, sev
eral University students have
banded together in conjunc
tion with a national move
ment aimed at the nomina
tion of a Democrat who will
work for an end to the Viet
nam War.
The National Conference of
Concerned Democrats
(NCCD) is spearheading a
drive to eliminate Johnson
from the 1968 presidential
race through a grass roots
movement.
University Concerned Dem
More Drug Problems?
University Releases
Names To Police
By ED ICENOGLE
Senior Staff Writer
The University has given
police the names of several
students in connection with
the possession and use of
marijuana on campus, G. Rob
ert Ross, dean of student af
fairs, said Wednesday.
Following by a week the
forced withdrawal of a stu
dent reported to have admit
ted possession and use of the
drug in a University resi
dence hall, the statement was
made in the Student Senate
meeting at the East Campus
Nebraska Center.
"He (the student who with
drew) is the only student who
has admitted to being involv
ed," Ross said.
"The names of several stu
dents have been turned over
to the police for investiga
tion," he said. "He is not the
only student we know of who
has been involved and on
whom we have proof."
COMMITTEE
Later in the Senate meet
ing, the senators voted to go
into a "committee of the
whole" for discussing Ross'
statement and Senator Al
Spangler proposed an investi
gatory committee, which was
unanimously approved.
Spangler proposed a reso
lution that the Senate "form
an ad hoc committee to in
vestigate the disciplinary pro
ceedings of the University and
to report back to the Senate
with recommendations, by the
end of the semester."
D
ormitories Allowed
Open Houses Saturday
Bv JAN PARKS
Junior Staff Writer
A faculty subcommittee on
dormitory open house policy
decided Tuesday that dorms
may have open houses for
Homecoming week as previ
ously planned, according to
Brian Ridenour, president of
Inter - Dormitory Association
Council.
The purpose of the subcom
mittee is to clarify the open
house policy for dormitories.
It developed last week after
several dormitory requests for
open houses were denied by
the Office of Student Affairs.
Miss Snyder said that the
ate dean of student affairs
and a member of the sub
committee, said that the meet
ing Tuesday was the begin
ning of an investigation of the
open house policy.
She said the problem was
complex and felt that much
more study of the open house
policy was needed.
Miss Snyder saud that the
who'e issue emerged because
many more open nouses were
being held than last vear.
"The open houses are getting
away from their original pur
pose," she said.
"Many people on the sub
committee openly said that it
appeared tLat open houses
art being used to get around
ocrats (UCD) is working in
Lincoln in connection with the
Nebraska Concerned Demo
crats (NCD).
UCD is circulating petitions
throughout the campus and
Lincoln area which speak out
against the present adminis
tration policy in Vietnam, ac
cording to Gene Pokorny,
treasurer of NCD and mem
ber of UCD. They are also
maintaining a booth in the
Student Union.
The petition is an open let
ter to President Johnson stat
ing that the undersigned will
devote their campaign funds,
energies, and votes only to
those political figures who
work for an end to the war in
The committee was estab
lished after several senators
expressed concern that the
student who withdrew was de
prived of due process and ef
fective legal representation.
Ross stated that any student
may be disciplined before civ
il conviction when they admit
to the infraction of University
or other laws.
Faced with the alternative
of disciplinary action, the stu
dent in last week's case vol
unteered to withdraw.
INTIMIDATED'
Spangler expressed concern
that the "student may have
been intimidated into leaving
school without a conviction."
"We don't know what hap
pened when the student went
into Dean Ross' office,"
Spangler said, "and he is not
about to tell us."
Spangler pointed out that
Ross had said that a lawyer
was not present at the meet
ing, and considering the se
riousness of the matter the
student may have been de
prived of due process of law.
Ross was not present when
the Senate went into the dis
cussion of the case, but he
answered questions following
his remarks to the Senate.
CONFIDING
Senator Phil Bowen raised a
question of the office of stu
dent affairs confiding infor
mation on the student's case
to sources outside of the po
lice agencies called on to in
vestigate the drug cases.
The student charged last
the no coed visitation rule
passed by the Regents," she
said.
Paul Canarsky, IDA coed
visiting committee chairman,
felt that open houses are not
a way of getting coed visiting.
"As long as dorms have to
gets residents' approval, file
an open house request at the
Office of Student Activities,
and have a member of hous
ing present on the floor it is
officially an open house," he
explained.
"Only when it is not nec
essary for dorms to go through
this process for an open house
will it be coed visiting," Ca
narsky said.
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Students may obtain
schedules and work-
I sheets for second se-
5 mester registration 5
Friday. The forms will g
be available in all res-
1 idence halls, the Ne-
9 braska Union, 207 Ag
I Hall on East Campus 5
and counter d3 in the I
Registrar's office. Stu-
dents who have ac-
1 cumulated 89 or more 5
hours may return the
5 completed forms on
1 Nov. 13-15 with a $50
deposit
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'Dump
Join
Vietnam, according to Mike
Oldfather, chairman of the
NCD Steering Committee and
member of the Nebraska
Young Democrats Executive
Committee.
Oldfather said that NCCD
hopes to obtain one million
signatures (from throughout)
the United States. The letter
will then be printed in 25 ma
jor cities in the country,
signed by thousands of citi
zen voters in each of those
cities. According to Oldfather
there is a five-point rationale
behind the concerned demo
crats' action.
First, the Democrats feel
that the costs of the war are
not justified by the require-
week before he left campus
that his employer and the
school which he was planning
to attend next semester were
informed of the reason for his
withdrawal.
Ross said that the Univer
sity of Nebraska had been the
student's employer, so it was
already informed of the case.
"We talked with the school
about the activities of this stu
dent when he was there last
year," Ross said.
'NOT INFORMED'
Ross indicated that the
school which the student had
attended and to which he was
planning to return was not in
formed of the case, although
it was contacted after the case
had come up.
Although investigations are
continuing on the students who
were reported by the Univer
sity to the police, Ross de
nied that the school is in
volved in a "witch-hunt."
"We have been involved in
responding to questions on
this matter," he said.
Ross said that the possibil
ity of "student spies" has
been discussed on campus and
among various law enforce
ment agencies, but that he
has not recommended such
action and that none is be
ing conducted in his knowl
edge. Student agents would work
for law enforcement agencies
in tracking down cases of
campus drug abuse, prohibit
ed by the University and state
and federal laws.
He said that the concept of
coed visitation involved more
of an individual responsibility
on the dorm resident and
(greater frequency) than the
present open houses.
Ridenour claimed that the
number of open houses was
higher this year because of
the three new dormitories and
because Abel and Schramm
now register their open hous
es by individual floors.
The IDA president said that
about 3.3 open houses had
been granted per unit thus far
this year. "This is less then
one every two weeks," he
said.
Miss Snyder said that she
had seen no confirmed statis
tics on the number of open
houses this year.
Ridenour felt that Tuesday's
subcommittee meeting was
helpful in clarifying both the
dorm resident's feelings and
the feeling of the subcommit
tee. "We were pleased with the
interim d e c i s i o n for open
houses until Monday's meet
ing," Ridenour stated, "but it
remains to be seen whether
an acceptable policy can be
made for dorm open houses."
Ridenour said that the IDA
delegation which attended
Tuesday's faculty subcommit
tee meeting argued from five
major points.
Johnson'
Anti - LBJ Effort
ments of national security
and that domestic needs are
not being met.
Second, Oldfather said,
"We believe that a Democra
tic ticket headed by Lyndon
Johnson will not only lose the
presidency, but will also lose
at every level, including Ne
braska "
Third, Oldfather feels that
potential party members will
be disinterested in the party
as long as Lyndon Johnson is
presented as the only possible
standard bearer for the Dem
ocrats. Gallery .
lAil
Homecoming '67 ...
Rally Tonight Kicks Off
This Year's Festivities
A bonfire pep rally Thurs
day will kick off the campus
festivities for Homecoming
1967, according to Jan Don
nan, Tassels publicity chair
man. The parade will begin at
7 p.m. at the south side of
the Nebraska Union and will
precede down 16th street to
the parking lot at 16th and
Vine.
Homecoming Queen final
ists will ride in converti
bles to the rally where they
will be presented. Mayor
Sam Schwartzkopf,- a former
Husker football player, will
speak at the rally.
Miss Donnan said that the
spirit trophy will be awarded
at the rally as usual, to the
group displaying the most
enthusiasm.
She said that the Tassels
are encouraging" the living
units that are not building
displays to put up a large
obvious sign on their unit.
A "car smash" will be held
in conjunction with the home- '
coming rally, according to
Don Potter who is a mem
ber of the National Honorary
Society of Pershing Rifles
Candidate Class, which is
v, sponsoring the event.
i The purpose of the car
Fourth, he emphasized the
need for a strong Democratic
Party in Nebraska and stated
that this goal could not be at
tained unless the party was
more hospitable to voters of
progressive persuasion.
Fifth, he said that NCCD
would rather appeal to Dem
ocrats at this point rather
than other political groups.
"As of today NCCD is sup
porting Eugene McCarthy,
Minnesota senator, as the
candidate for the presidential
nomination," Oldfather said.
. .
smash is to increase school
spirit by allowing participants
to hit an old car with a
sledge hammer until it is
completely demolished.
The cars will be decorated
with symbols of the opposing
school, he explained, and the
harder one hits them the b e t
ter he strikes a blow for Ne
IVCF Book
Group Ideals
The Inter-Varsity Chris
tian Fellowship will hold a
book fair Wednesday in the
Nebraska Union, according
to Douglas McArthur, exec
utive member of IVCF.
Books published by Inter
Varsity Press, a Christian
publisher, and priced from
$.75 to $2 will be sold. Sub
ject matter will include
Bible studies, the man
Christ, and Christian faith.
"Tie nurnose of the bo-k
fair is to get the books to
the public and to introduce
Christianity and IVCF to
the campus," said McArth
ur. "What profit we make
will help finance the IVCF
lending library,'' he said, ,
He continued that NCCD is
not dividing party loyalties
since President Johnson has
not yet declared his can
didacy for a second term.
He also stated that although
Young Democrats are sup
porting Johnson, the con
cerned Democrats were not
trying to undercut Y.D.'s but
to merely provide another
outlet for concerned young
people.
Pokorny concluded that
UCD is in no way connected
with the University's Young
Democrat organization.
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photo by Dan Ladely
Of Two
braska University.
The cars will be donated
by local merchants, said
Potter.
Another purpose of the
event is to raise money for
Pershing Rifles to help send
their drill units and the Ca
dence Countesses drill unit
on two drill trips this year.
Fair Today;
Promoted
IVCF is a non-denomina
tional group offering stu
dents the chance to meet
and associate with other
Christians in a setting away
from church. McArthur out
lined the four functions of
IVCF, which are:
To encourage Christian
growth of members through
prayer groups and Bible
studies.
To resent to gospel of
Christ to other students
through personal contact,.
To present the challenge
of foreign missions to stu
dents and '
To befriend the interna
tional students.