Hie prHn Focus . . .
Cooperation Key Word in Peace Corp Success
By Cindv Bellows
CooperatjotTwill play a
big rolenn the success of
the Peace Corps according
to some University foreign
students from Peace Corps
countries.
"My country is five times
the size of Nebraska and
contains 10 million people,"
pointed out Anthony Rwey
emamu, a student from
Tanganyika.
"This means there will
have to be a combined ef
fort of my people and the
Peace Corps volunteers to
produce good results. How
ever, the United States is.
showing an honest desire to
improve my country's stan
dard of living through this
project."
Tanganyika has requested
Student Suspension
Case May Involve
'Burden of Proof
By Tom Kotouc
"The recent case on stiident suspension may involve
questions of burden of proof and preponderance of evidence
facing state universities," according to James Lake, profes
sor of Law.
The Tribunal tries students for breaking University regu
lations rather than state law so the student will not be put in
double ieDordv. but the Tribunal h'as no rules to indicate
whether this process will proceed under the rules of the
Criminal law or
Civil 'law.
"If a suspended student
claims he is not guilty of the
chares levied against h i m
and .he University claims he
is, there's a conflict of evi
dence. It may be necessary
for the Senate Committee to
ra;e whether the student
must prove his innocence to
have the Notice of Suspension
dropped or if the University
must prcve his guilt to up
hold the N o t i c e of Suspen
sion." The preponderance of evi
dence also could enter the
picture of the power which
st?tc Univeritsy bodies re
viewing or trying cases have.
"In criminal law," Lake
said, "the government must
prove its case beyond a rea
sonable doubt to support the
defendant's conviction. The
defendant is considered inno
cent until proved guilty.
Civil Law
"In civil 'aw, hovever,"
said Lake, "it is simply nec
essary for the plaintiff to pre
sent a preponderance of evi
dence to prove the defend
ant's guilt."
Former Dean of the Ne
braska Lav School Abner
Seavery pointed out sev
eral years ago in the Har
vard Law Review that courts
had accorded students fewer
rights to trial, review, and
appeal than do criminals or
murderers in a court of la.
Lake said that the Senate
Committee rules provided
greater student rights than
those which courts have here
tofore held as necessary ac
cording to constitutional law.
We included the rights to. trial
and review by an impartial
body and the confrontation of
evidence upon which a del
usion was based.
In the years I served on the
committee, Lake said, only
once did a case come before
us involving burden of proof.
But after three or four hear
ings, which the sLudent had
requested so that he could
gather and present additional
evidence, the student called
me and asked to drop the
appeal for the hearing, he
could do this. Thus we had
to make no decision on the
burden of proof or the pre
ponderance of evidence.
Other Cases
"In all other cases, the stu
dent did not question the evi
dence against him, but sim
ply questioned the punishment
which had been meted out,"
Lake said.
"Another point of contro
versy in State University
hearings is the defendant's
confrontation and examina
tion of witnesses who have
given information upon which
the Notice of Suspension is
based." Lake said.
Th committee does not
have the power to subpoena
Lake said. It sim
ply will "use all efforts and
powers at its command to
have any person, or persons
designated by the suspended
student present at the hear
ing upon the prior written ap-
plication vi wc
"Usually a faculty member
or policeman will voiuniaruy
appear, but the Committee
has little power over anyone
else.
Bad Checks
"When I was on the com
rmttee, a case involving a stu
dent who have given a num
ber of bad cnecKS to mer
10 civil engineers, geolo
gists, and 20 surveyors for
a two-year period.
A student from Ghana,
Frank Ablorh, said of the
project in his country: "It
is a really good idea for
Africa because her primary
need today is education of
the people."
' The Peace Corps is
sending 51 volunteers to
schools.
Ablorh is hoping for good
results. "The ; future of a
nation rests in education of
its people," he said. "Edu
cation raises their standards
and makes them aware of
their rights.
The Peace Corps is es:
pecially good because it
gives know-how instead of
food and clothing, which
chants over the city came be
fore us.
"No matter how much evi
dence an '0' Street merchant
had given or could give for
or against the student, how
could we as a Committee on
Suspension Appeals and out
side of the courts compel this
merchant to appear?"
Under the present system
of trial and appeal before the
Student Tribunal and Com
mittee oii Appeals, said Lake,
the student has the opportu
nity for a fair and adequate
hearing which many schools
deny their students and which
even the University did not
formally provide until five or
six years ago.
"When Dean Colbert, the
Senate Committee on Student
Suspension Appeal and I
drafted the committee rules,
it was our intention to pro
vide such a procedure which
would allow the student not
only to see any evidence used
against him but also to pre
sent any evidence on his be
half," Lake said.
Campaign
The campaign which the
Daily Nebraskan carried on
several years ago against the
secrecy of Tribunal hearings
was unwise," said Lake.
"If all cases were open to
the public, not only would
some witnesses fail to appear,
but a person needed as a wit
ness, especially in a morals
case, might be ruluctant to
appear rather than face the
embarrassment which explan
ation of the details of t h e
case would bring about.
"In the conflict over the
rights which schools deny
their students, a recent case
in the South saw a court over
rule the university's decision
to suspend two Negro s t u
dents for v participation in a
forbidden sit-in demonstration.
The students had no opportu
nity for hearing or appeal, but
only received notice soon af
ter their participation in the
sit-in that they had been sus
pended. "The courts ruled that the
university's action deprived
them of due process and
ruled that the students could
not be suspended for this rea
son. If
i) Vr
Representing the Pershing Rifles, SFC Steve Knee and Warrant Officer Dennis Lyon
present Chancellor Hardin with an album of "first day fcovers" of the newly issued
John J. Pershing memorial postage stamp.
makes us more indepen
dent." Living Conditions
A young Peace Corps vol
unteer in Nigeria was
asked to leave this fall when
she complained of living
conditions in a postcoard
sent home, A student from
Nigeria, Immanual Thomp
son, said of the incident:
"The people must accept
the Peace Corps on their
own. Other than this one in
cident, it is working well in
my country."
Approximately 115 volun
teers are expected to be
the
Vol. 75, No. 50
erne 3
By Nancy Whitford
A modified street plan for
Lincoln traffic known as
Scheme 3 will permit the Uni
versity to expand from R St.
to Q St. according to Carl
Fisher, Lincoln city engineer.
Fisher outlined the details
of Scheme 3 Monday before
the City Council and Tuesday
before a meeting of the Lin
coln Chamber of Commerce's
streets and highways commit
tee. Under Scheme 3, R St. will
remain a two-way traffic lane,
but city traffic will be, de
emphasized and diverted to
other streets.
Chancellor Clifford Hardin
had said earlier that "if R
St. is to be a busy street, it
will be wholly impossible to
cross, and property south of
R St. will be wholly imprac
tical for University develop
ment." Favorable
Donaldson said the modified
traffic plan would be favor
able to the University if traf
fic could later be "deadened"
at Q St. as it now is at R
St. ' -
Fisher said this could be
included in the scheme if the
University expanded to Q St.
Donaldson said that if the
plan is adopted the area be
tween R and Q will be used
for development of a cultur
al complex.
Preliminary Plans Begin
For NU Centennial in 1969
Preliminary planning: for
the University's centennial
year in 1969 is already under
way, reports Chancellor Clif
ford Hardin.
Robert Manley, a Ph.D.
candidate in, the department
of history, was recommended
at a centennial committee
meeting by the Chancellor to
begin gathering- historical
materials. Manley will also
teach part-time at the Univer
sity. The centennial committee is
headed by E. N. Thompson
of the National Bank of Com
merce Trust and Savings of
Lincoln.
KISUS Airs Messiah
A recording of' the "Mes
siah" will be presented
at 8 p.m. Thursday by
KNUS. "War of the
Worlds," previously sched
uled for that time, has been
postponed until early March.
0!'
PERSHING STAMP AWARDED
serving In Nigeria's educa
tional system by January of
1962.
Thompson commented
"Nigeria needs development
with help from well-trained
people. When such an op
portunity as the Peace
Corps is found, you don't
turn your back on it."
He added, "It is true
wherever you go that if
someone has good intentions
with no ulterior motives
towards you, you don't re
sent them."
Problem
A problem which Ameri
if
Will
A Segment of the Proposed Modified Street Plan
R ST.
Q sr.
P St
"IT
in itr
He said a new music build
ing is high on the priority
list, second only after a new
research wing on the Physics
Building and the remodeling
of Elgin Building.
Music Isolated :
"The Department of Music
has to be isolated from the
main portion of the campus
because of the noise, and is
more like a community in it
self," he said. -
fionaldson said the Temple,
architecture and art buildings
which are already established
or in the process of being
built would make this area "a
natural" for cultural activ
ities. There are also a number of
Chancellor Hardin said the
centennial would be "ob
served with the object of
showing the contributions the
University has made to the
state as well as the nation in
the past 100 years and the ef
fect it has made on the peo
ple." Other members of the com
mittee include: Dr. W. Aesch
bacher, director of the Ne
braska State Historical Soci
ety; Mrs. Martha McKelvie
of Wickenburg, Ariz., widow
of the former state governor
Sam McKelvffe; Harold An
dersen of the Omaha World
Herald; Joe Seacrest, pub
lisher of the Lincoln Journal.
Walter White, publisher of
the Lincoln Star; Dr. Leon
McGoogan, an Omaha physi
cian; Al Reddish, an Alliance
attorney; Burt James, man
aging editor of the Hastings
Tribune; Arthur Sweet, edi
tor of the Nebraska City
Nwws-Press and Major War
ren Wood of Gering.
A
if
cans often run into abroad
was raised by Ahsan
Baqai, a student from Pak
istan. "The Peace Corps is
a very good idea but if they
act as if they are doing
these people a favor, they
cannot hope to achieve
much good," he said.
Pakistan has requested
30 volunteers for the west
ern and 33 for the eastern
part of the country.
Baqai cautioned, "When
Americans go abroad they
must take care not to im
pose their culture and gov
ernment on others."
llJ
The Nebraskan
rermi
it
lit
ltr ir
religious houses and living un
its in the area south of R be
tween 10th and 17th. Howev
er the area between 17th and
the railroad tracks has not
been developed by the Uni
versity. Since academic buildings
have to be figured as part of
a ten-minute walking distance,
the area beyond 17th would
be suitable for related build
ings such as living units. Don
aldson envisions the area from
Vine to R as "three Selleck
Quadrangles."
Busy R St.
If R St. should become a
busy one-way street then
we will have to start worry
ing, Donaldson said. He said
there would still be a number
of possibilities for expansion
though. (
Parking areas could be uti
lized for classroom buildings,
more expansion could be di
rected west of 10th, Temple
might be used only for gradu
ate work and connected to the
remainder of the campus by
an underpass or several exist
ing pairs of buildings, such as
Burnett and Bessey and An
drews and Morrill could be
Lishner
Appears in
NBC Show
A University music profes
sor, Leon Lishner, will ap
pear on NBC television on
Christmas Eve in the 11th
annual presentation of Gean
Carlo Menotti's Christmas
opera, "Amahl and the Night
Visitors."
Professor Lishner will pro
troy the role of King Balthzar,
the role he created for the
original production which had
its world premiere in 1951,
and he has appeared in all
subsequent telecasts.
"Amahl and the Night Visi
tors" has become part of the
Christmas lore of this country
and each year is seen by
20,000000 people viewing tele
casts. Lishner has also been
identified with the world
premieres of two other Menot
ti works, "The Consul" and
The Saint of Bleecker
Street", having created the
roles of the secret police
agent and Don Marco, the
priest for the original Broad
way productions.
Caroling Party
To Honor Faculty
Members of the executive
councils of the Residence As
sociation for Men and the
Women's Residence Associa
tion will hold a joint caroling
party for the deans of all the
colleges and Chancellor Clif
ford Hardin.
Those who participate will
meet at Selleck at 7 p,m.
Thursday. The caroling will
be followed by a party at the
Women's Residence Halls.
A contingent of 25 volun
teers will work in India's
agricultural area, the Pun
jab. According to Moham
mad Ahmad, a student from
India, "It will promote good
will between the two peo
ples of our countries and
we will understand each' oth
er in a better way,"
He said that the plan of
the Peace Corps to live un
der the same conditions as
nationals and doing the
same kind of work was an
excellent one.
"This establishes a basis
of equality for the project.
R.ST.
liQ ST. Itf
t
P ST.
vr
connected and made into
quadrangles or a row of new
buildings might be con
structed on 12th north of the
new Sheldon Art Gallery.
Modifications of the origin
al traffic plan include having
only eastbound traffic on Q
St. between 9th and 10th and
implementation of 11th and
12th as a one-way pair to re
lieve 9th and 10th loads.
There would be a cross-over
at 16th and P for the pro
posed Northeast Diagonal.
The plan is designed to
solvp overload problems at
key intersections with the In
terstate 180 access route.
The basic elements of the
original downtown street plan
are retained, including Q as
University
Receives 2
NSF Grants
The University has received
two National Science Founda
tion grants totaling $143,000
to aid 110 high school teach
ers of science and mathema
tics to return to school this
coming summer for a new
view of the subject matter
they teach.
The grants will support the
continuation of the High
School Teachers Institutes in
mathematic and in sciences
at the University. Dr. Wen
dell L. Gauger, assistant pro
fessor of botany, will be di
rector of the Institute in sci
ences, which will include
courses in biology, chemistry,
history of science and physics.
The grant will provide funds
for 70 high school teachers.
Dr. Walter Mientka, associ
ate professor of mathematics,
will be in charge of the In
stitute for mathematics. Forty
teachers will be accepted in
the course.
Six Journalism Students
Receive Gold Key Awards
Six students were honored
Tuesday for outstanding scho
lastic achievement in their
first year at the University
of Nebraska School of Jour
nalism. Lincoln Star editor William
O. Dobler presented them
with gold keys awarded an
nually by the Journal-Star
Printing Co. All are sopho
mores and all except one are
enrolled in the Journalism
School's news-editorial se
quence. Those honored were:
Kay Casey, with a 7.55
grade average. She is in the
journalism advertising se
quence and is a resident
of the Women's Residence As
sociation at NU.
Bernice Meyer, with a 7.31
average. She is page editor of
the Husker Lutheran and spe
cial features editor of the In
Working on an equal foot
ing with the people should
present no danger of mis
understanding." Volunteer Peace Corps
workers have been chosen
to go to twelve nations
which request assistance in
Asia, Africa and Latin
America.
In addition to the coun
tries already mentioned,
projects are planned for
Chile, Colombia, the Philip
pines and St. Lucia. The
most recent countries to be
included are Thailand, Ma
laya and Sierra Leone.
Wednesday, December 20, 1961
Grow
a major two-way street, P at
one-way west and N as one
way east, as well as a de-em
phasis of traffic on 0 and R.
The scheme still has sever
al steps to go through before
it becomes a reality. It is
scheduled to be reviewed be
fore the City-County Planning
Commission today, the City
Council Monday and then the
State Highway Department
and the Bureau of Publie
Roads.
Peterson
To Head
AAUP
Dr. Wallace Peterson, asso
ciate professor of economics,
was recently elected the new
president of the University
chapter of the American
Association of University Pro
fessors (AAUP).
He succeeds Dr. Robert
Chasson, professor of physics.
Other newly elected of
ficers include: Dr. Carl
Schneider, vice president,
associate professor of polit
ical science; Kathryn Ren
fro, secretary, assistant direc
tor of libraries for technical
service; Dr. Clarence Miller,
treasurer, associate professor
of agricultural economics;
and Dr. Herbert Jacobi,
member-at-1 a r g e on the
executive committee, profes
sor of biochemistry at the
College of Medicine.
KK Tryouts
Persons interested in trying
out for Kosmet Klub Spring
Show, "Guys and Dolls,3
should pick np tryont scripts
in the tSudent Union Lobby
today.
HURRY
2 days
until vacation
...
dependent Women's Associa
tion Newsletter. .
Wendy Rogers, Fremont,
7.31 average. She was a Lin
coln Journal freshman schol
arship winner, and currently
works part-time as a reporter
for the Jounal in addition to
campus activities that include
Builders, editor of the New
man Club paper, and publicity
chairman of the All-Univer-sRy
Fund.
Suzanne Hovik, 7.25 aver
age. She is a staff writer for
the Daily Nebraskan.
John Morris, 7.21 average.
He was a winner of Regents
and Lincoln Star freshman
scholarships He works part
time for the University sports
publicity office.
Jane Tenhulzen, 7.18 aver
age. She is a member of the
board of Associated Women
Students and a section editor
for the Cornhusker, and Uni
versity yearbook.
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