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Page 2 The Doily Nebraskan Friday, Moy 23, 1958 S I 1 5 H i '. 4 K A 'J ' 3 i i ft' -a s to $ ii 0 Editorial Comment Code Generally OK... Except For One Item This newspaper, along with many in dividuals on the campus, has clamored for a codified list of student regulations. Our cry for the codification of regula tions, both social and civil, is not an in dictment of the administration nor is it a disavowal of Unversity policies" at present. It is, rather, a demand for writtcn down regulations for the benefit of stu dents at the University and of students to follow through the years. The basic benefit of a codified set of regulations for the student presently at the Univer sity stems from his right to know what specifically he is charged with, when brought before the authorities, and to know where he can find precedents for his case upon which to base a defense. A student has a right to a fair hearing In any circumstances where his good name is Involved. And we believe, that through utilization of a system of codi fied regulations, no question as to the discretion, the honesty of the judge can be brought. Furthermore, it is alarming to think that a regulated society such as the University which serves close to 8,000 students would not have a specilic list of offenses and in juxtaposition a list of the minimum and maximum penalties. An ordered society has an obligation to spell out the obvious for the benefit of maintaining the rights of the citizen. So, logically, when a student is charged with some violation of the state liquor law, he should know what specifically the charge is and how it could affect him. The need for codification is a credit to the University, in one respect. For only in a large and respected University can students demand and get clearly labeled regulations from the administra tion. The need, then, is a testimonial to the University's growth, to the social and legal awareness of the students, to the ordered nature of campus life. On the other side of the ledger, a fail ure of the University to recognize the urgency of the Freed resolution, which demanded a codification of social regu lations, would have been a true indict ment of the administration for failure to serve the social needs of the student. The recognition by the administration and some faculty members that social rules should be codified is an example of the willingness of the University to respond to logical, pressing demands by the student leaders. This willingness was demonstrated earlier this year by the acceptance, the outright approval of the Student Tribunal and the cheerful ac ceptance of the need for that, too. But now we have been given a code of student conduct which alienates any righteous person. For, the cede stipulated that "alleged violations' of civil law may result in the University's taking additional disciplin ary action." This means that if a person is charged and released by the civil authorities, without the conduct of a trial, there is an allegation of some of fense. Moreover, the person may receive the fullest measure of the University's disciplinary for an unproved or alleged violation of a law. The stipulation is added to the code "to protect the good name of the Uni versity," student council president Roggc says. But the rights of the individual? They don't seem to mean a thing as far as this University is concerned. The Daily Nebraskan stands four square against the injustice done the student body by this stipulation in the student conduct code. We are opposed to the stipulation 1) because it deprives the student of due process in a court of law and the heritage that a person is innocent until proven guilty, 2) becausethe University, as a state institution has a grave responsibility to protect the rights of the individual more than the "good name" of the institution, 3) because the stipulation will result in arbitrary decisions against students who have no recourse to action, since the faculty committee which reviews discipline cases can only handle them when they involve suspension, 4) because the stipulation is a clear flouting of the rights which any state in stitution must defend as well as practice with respect to the students. The University, by allowing this stipu lation to remain in a code of student con duct, loses the respect of the entire stu dent body and rightly so. The student council, by passing this stipulation, is unaware of the rights of the students, the rights of the citizen of a free society. We suggest that the division of student affairs get together with the student council, talk this question over, and strike this purely arbitrary and fascist stipulation from an otherwise sound, if brief, code of student conduct. We stand behind the code without this stipulation. We admire the promptness with which it was drawn up. But we despise the principle lying in the soul of this stipulation which will make the University into a power greater than our own American courts of law. No man or machine must be allowed to exercise this power. From the Editor private opinion dick shugrue "The University is just plain cheating the students!" I shouted at the guy on the otherside of the desk. I was burned up because I couldn't get into a class listed in the catalogue and felt the University has as much an obliga tion to have openings in sections "advertised" as we have to put out a newspaper on the days KrhpHnlprt When the University tvr- J arbitrarily shuttles stu- yr ( dents from one section I i-y to the next, making new in sections to suit the Shugrue whims of various depart ments, the student is forced to rear range an entire schedule, often and even more distressing, the student who isn't a playboy has to rearrange his work sched ule. 'If classes are listed in the catalogue they should be available to any student who meets the qualifications for them. Setting up times for classes can hardly be an arbitrary business geared to the whims of any one department any more than contracts can be altered to cope with the whims of the producer of goods. If instructors are available for new sections, then they should be available for the sections provided for in the cata logue. In short I, like many other students, am not in school to learn to be a juggler of schedules. I'm paying a high price for an education and have a right to demand that the University honors the catalogue by making classes available to students which they, . in essence, have promised will be available for the academic year. Personal inconvenience isn't the im portant thing here, either. It's just that gross inconveniences created arbitrarily by certain departments are not in keep ing with intellectual honesty. I hope that planned improvements in the registration process being begun this fall will stop this foolishness. As usual the library ispacked with students doing their last-minute cram ming for exams. I once heard a famed educator say that students who cram for exams are dishonest. I don't believe it. I thing the crammers are probably overworked dopes who just don't seem to have the time to study what with parties all weekend through out the semester and meetings every night of the week. Take me, for example. End of se mester blues swoop down on me about the middle of May so that I start to have a troubled conscience about the things I'd planned to do. Now don't tell me you don't feel that way, too. I'm of the opinion that the University is becoming less and less a benevolent dictatorship and is falling more and more into the hands of those people it was put here for the students. Thanks to some progressive thinking by ad ministrators we have a tribunal to be proud of, something of a conduct code (?) and hope for the future. I'll be looking into people's closets next year digging up the things I've never been able to dig up in the past; working as a private citizen, you know. This newspaper work and the responsi bilities that go with it are just too much for a spy-at-heart. But I might say one kind word for the operation of the paper, if you'll bear with me. Right at the end of the semester we started getting on the ball about having pictures' engraved. Most of the pix.were sent to the printer in time to get dis counts. Business manager Sellentin said, "Get discounts!" And we're getting -them. But what he doesn't know is that we're taking advantage of him left and right. Today, for example, we charged 100 inches of engravings (at some astro nomical cost). At any rate, this newspaper business is one hell of a great business. At least that's my private opinion. "sr?i n-UJi Objections Sustained By Steve Schultz With Judgment Day com ing, I am getting more and more in favor of reforms in the final exam program of the University. One thought, of course, oc curs to me. Why d o n 't the powers de clare a one week mora torium during which no one would have anything to do but studv for examina- tions? Schultz This would give the poor benighted souls who haven't studied during the semester a chance to cram, and you and I could go swim ming. Seriously speaking, I cannot see the harm in such a period of rest, relaxation, and book pounding. Certainly, everyone can use a few days to review the additions the semester has made to his alleged wisdom. It would do much to equalize - the current unfair situation which allows some people to get by with exams spaced two or three days apart, while others must do all their test taking in the first bleary hours of the exam period. Unless something horrible happens (like the newspaper taking a poll to see how many people are really reading this) I will be back next semester, brooding over the same hot typewriter and exposing cor ruption with fearless zeal. But that is looking forward to' times when we will all be more enthused than we are now.and when going on a cru sade will be like donning armor and marching bravely onward and upward instead of like plodding through a swamp. At the present, crusading or even writing does not seem very attractive. The summer will revive me. I plan to sit in the hometown bars and let moss grow on my north side. I will scrape it off and see you in the fall. Pensive Patter By Judy Truell I have been requested (names withheld for obvious reasons) to write on a variety of subjects for this last col umn. However, I'm not a per petual foun tain of knowl edge and there are a great many conditions on this campus (which to some eyes are appal ling) of which I'm not aware. Tim 1 y Judy My main concern with the various ROTC departments is how handsome the men look in their uniforms. Some dis gruntled male in his too-hot uniform, baggy trousers, tight coat, and hat that was slip ping down over the ears told me above the squeaking of his shoes that they ought to re quire all university women to take an ROTC course. I un derstand that the University of Omaha offered just such a program this year and that only one patriotic young wom an turned out. Although the men look great, women's uniforms just don't seem to have the neces sary appeal. Maybe if they could get the WAC into a SACK there would be a run on enlistments. However, as things now stand, I definitely pass on a ROTC course. Two years of p.e. was enough for me the field is all yours, men. I was also offered such questionable topics as: why should seniors have to take finals?; why everyone on the campus should be required to own 'a khaki raincoat; why doesn't the University con struct a golf course on Ag Campus; why doesn't the Un ion buy a colored television set; and many more perti nent, educational problems. For those of you who see these as immediate and pressing needs I suggest starting a committee. Committees invar iably get prompt attention. The time has also come to say good-by to this institution of higher learning for another summer. Somehow though, ' when you pull cards and see the same course being offered again that you just finished, you realize that this place will go on interminably. Its only the Ec lis and Zoo 102s that will amount to anything in the end. All this is build ing up to is a feeling of nos tplgia but as you leave after finals, don't drive off without Poking back. And if all you see is the area around the Student Union take faith, maybe it won't look that bad next fall. Beginning to Ending; Rag's Editorials By Ernie Hinei Scanning the turbulence caused by the The Student Tribunal, campaigns for Arts & Sciences vs. Teachers College Student Council eLctions, the Kellogg squabble over teacher certification, we Foundation's grant to . the University, sided with the liberal arts boys io say teacher certification, dual matriculation ing that a teacher to be a teacher must these were a few of the big issues first personally know his subject matter, handled editorially by the Daily Ne- The department in which he is studying braskan during this semester of basket- should be able to make a recommenda ball upsets and forward-looking campus tion as to whether or not he is qualified construction. to teach in this area. In conjunction with From the first of the year the Ncbras- this issue, we said that dual matHcula kan has backed the establishment of a tion should be wiped from the boards as student tribunal as a system, which if an example of needless and discouraging given real power and a chance to make bureaucracy which doesn't serve the decisions free from administration cen University any useful purpose and tends sorship, could benefit the school tre- to discourage many students from pre mendously. Essentially we contended paring for the teaching profession. The that the Division of Student Affairs would report of the committee investigating no longer have to be the sole judge of teacher certification we consider totally student's conduct, and that the students inadequate and a "white wash" in the would thus have a healthier view of worst of all possible ways. Though the campus discipline because it would be external arguments have died down, the coming from fellow students rather than internal discontent continues. The report an administrator in a secluded office. did nothing to help toward showing how Establishment of the system Is a reality, this problem could be solved. The ad Whether the tribunal will perform the ministration and the Board of Regents function which it might perform will not have also failed. thus ar. to face tne be known until it is tested next year. problem squarely and to take steps to Conduct Rules . establisJ; a bette.r ceificatf P"- Along with a tribunal, we have pointed Keporling 1' recdon. our fingers at the hodge-podge of student A cllege is supposedly an institution conduct "rules and regulations" and devoted to the development of individuals said, "Codify them, please, and let the wno be,ieve in knowing the whole truth student know what is expected of him and nothing b"t the truth, ignoring the and what might happen to him if he Pretty superficial "facts" doled out to fails to live according to the campus them by administrators, council mem- commandments." This is an issue with Ders Pol'ticans, and everyone else from which we are still unhappy, although the tneir aunt Sue to lnc,e 5am- B,,t hc, e Council has supposedly solved the prob- at the University, council meetings a-e lem with a decision to print the rules in often doscd conduct punishments are the Husker Handbook and, possibly, kcPt secret cou,,dl members' vutog pamphlet form. Today's lead editorial hablts are hush-hush, tribunal judges' comments further on this problem. names are temporarily withheld to create r r 80 called better effects. College students Council Campaigns here ca.t have the whole truth We Student government, we have said, haven't stopped with a cry for freedom should be exactly that a government 0f information only on the campus, and not an organization conjured up by We've also called Canon 35 an outdated the administration to make the school regulation that could and should be appear democratic and give a few stu- tossed iri the waste basket in this era of dents a meeting place in which to waste undistracting cameras and microphones, an afternoon or so each week. In order And we've made the cry for free travel to avoid such a situation the students of journalists in other countries, includ- being represented should know what their jng Red China. We've encouraged Ne- "leaders" believe and how they vote on braska radio stations to use their right particular issues. of editorial vote and join the battle of YOUR COUNCIL STILL FAILS TO the papers in helping to Interpret the MEET THESE BASIC REQUIRE- maSs of local and state news. .MENTS OF A DEMOCRATIC GOVERN- rr . MENT. Atomic 1 esting Campaigns for election to the council Many Policies beinS Issued by the are labeled as taboo and the voting of the natlonal government have appeared to group is as deep a secret as the minutes us to be damagin8 to the security and of the cavemen's first council pow-wow. prosperity of the country. Atomic bomb When you vote you pick a "good guy" testinS we have especially attacked as and sometimes end up with a Brutus in a foolish scattering of radioactivity that the good guy role with his knife of in- not only fails to ma!'e ';s moie s"ure difference and neglect in your back. b"t which poisons our universe, our food, v n r , . our water, our bodies and perhaps fu Kellogg foundation ture generations. . Continued testing is Among the pleasant things we've com- being condemned by thousands of lead- mented on this semester is the nearly mg scientists throughout the world. It is $2 million grant from the Kellogg Foun- Deing condemned by moral and political dation for establishment of a center for leaders, and by commonman Americans, continuing adult education. "Good Japanese, Germans, Latin Americans, work," we told the administration and Indians, and hosts of others as a race the University. "Thank you," we said 0f madness instead of a race for arma- to the Kellogg Foundation. We feel that ment security. Stop this madness, we it is deplorable that the University does have said, not have a sort of revenue which would TV-ifpriiiti make it possible to fulfill our financial i raicriuuts obligation in this grant without holding The maJor facto,r which efh"ve found a big open palm drive for funds, hoping faultv in Maternities is their failure gen- that Cornhuskers will realize the won ll,neIv 10 Promote high, "cffc0,a"i " , ! derful opportunity Nebraska has to be praised them however, for the H C ruling among the states taking the lead in de- that n freshman who was in the lower velopment of adult educational pro- one-fourth percentile of his h.gh school grams. Such drives can wear out the class ma fIedp 8 fraternlty, "nU citizen, and we suggested that more has oblained a four xerT at lhe u state aid to education would be bene- versity. The IFC got another p.t on the ficial for not only the University but back for iU civic semw day, an activity every school in the state that can help the whole state o under. n i e i stand that fraternity stands for more ISranch Schools than party house. The inability of the University to estab- El "ill Purchase ' lish branch schools offering the initial n , j ' j year of college work in such cities a The move to P,urchase t1he,abandoned North Platte was cond mned as' a "baS E18in ?'atch 'f017 bU1 " - legal snag." Attorney General C S praised because it can give the Umver- Beck's rulfng that there is Taw whi ch si "f nly f? WhlCh Z gives the University the right to offer vide badly "" da?SroomS i r such a program clearly points out he cr0Wded yea" l Cme U 1" . ' need for the legislators to act on this ive the camPus more for eV7 problem without hesitation when they gieater Mure CXpanS1n CamP"S gather in Lincoln for their next Uni- veloPment- , , cameral session. The University should "eie were among the major issues be dvnamlc in i.o rnimim..?!! I ,f on which we took a stand this year. We a": Polder V pS' SSSM alS ""V education to every Nebraskan nation should campaign on a platform . . other than "save your money," which ,iv- means nothing; that the council should llXRRilKXll1 j01" the U. S. National Student Associa- "lUiniaimil tion and that an honorary organization sixty-seven years OLD known as the Tomahawks seemed de- Member: Associated Colleflat Press signed merely to pacify some folks Intercoiieriate Press too lazy to strive for recognition by the Representative: National Advertising existing non-discriminatory honor groups PbIihedS:rtrtor2rst.dden, Union -'""T "f, , 14th & R And we really liked those victonei Lincoln, Nebraska that the basketball squad handed us, w!iX,rrKS? Mr JMJ.'SS;; bringing sorrow to a pair of rather proud . tSSLSTSXE&S SSii i1hTS.rJSi5 Kansas schools and an unforseen dav ot t Nfbniiu i under the uthoriution ot ihi- commitict leisure to the singers of "There is no on Student Affairs a m expreMlnn nf itudrnl unlnhin. i 11 r 1 i tir 11 j -u Pubiiemtioni under the junedietinn of the KuiKonv place hke Nebraska." We patted ths S&'JSii: SHSt XZ'ZgLSZZ Union on the back for good programs, uJZ&.fL 'LZZ'Z.VJSiZ:,', we said ?reat 3b t0 tne Produce., of n'SSbnXSit.uuMmt' " " ScriP- and we Tteiivered the wisdom of subKripttoD rt" v m.60 p eemeeter or m tot Ilerblock and Peanuts to you as faith- the -cadmilo rear. , ... . . . .. entered u MCood elau natter the oust rlfl fUily aS pOSSlDle. Only One Of OUT edl- un.n. N.brk.bund.,. of .. torial poUcies failed to make an im- mi&u d.W '.Y.V.V.V.Y.V.V.V.V.' ' TrZJXVZ Pression. This was when we said, "Worn- ManiKin editor Mark i,undtrom en, Bah!" and suggested the removal Npu Editor . Emmie Llmne , . ., , , spc.rt. Editor oeonce Mo of coeds from the campus because of Cov" EMU"' rST!!K their distracting characteristics. Your ?aMr.Edltor r:r"r"XZ2ttJSXS: difference to this proposal did not hurt Herb probawo. and i:harie Kmitb us deoply, though, because we realized Business Manager - Jerry Sellectin .. . 1 .. Assistant Buslnrss Managers . Tom Neff, It Was One that Only a pink JOUmallSt Stan Kalman, Bob Smldt .ij ,,,i j -i. Circulation Manaiw Jeny Trap COUld Or WOUld make.