(From Other 4 y 1 riniiihiispfi Monday, November 12, ,962jJ XilillrS Page 2 EDITORIAL FHF SUSPENSION ? University Issues In an effort to clarify the questions posed in the Campus Forum column today and others, the University Administra tionfrom the Chancellor's office on down to the Division of Student Affairs has compiled an answer. The policy statement gives seven rea son why the University feels that the sub rosa organizations are a malignancy that must be removed and why suspension is automatic once a student has been identi fied as a member. Many people, especially those who are outside the University community, OFFICIAL STATEMENT CONCERNING SUB-ROSAS Any group or society which refuses to stand the light of inquiry and denies permis sion for responsible evaluation of its purposes and actions is not compatible with the academic mission and will not be sanctioned by the University of Nebraska. The University in its efforts to eliminate this malignancy has experienced be havior and actions of these groups in the following areas: 1. Creation of suspicion among students and faculty. 2. Division of student groups precipitating the loss of student leadership 3. Acts of dishonesty 4. Acts of vandalism 5. Unlawful consumption of alcoholic beverages 6. Failure to assume responsibility for acts or statements 7. libelous Acts The opposition of the University to such groups is based upon their violation of the fundamental American concept of democracy and their incompatibility with the methods the University employs in its search for truth and knowledge and in its ef forts to support the maximum development of personal integrity and responsibility In its students. The guarantees which the American system extends to its people are based on the belief that the individual is endowed with certain rights, including the right to in quire and know. This concept is violated by any group or society which seeks to hide its leadership, its identity, and its purposes and which also refuses to accept re sponsibility for its actions. In the long pursuit of learning certain basic principles have won acceptance by virtue of the beneficial results they have helped to produce. Among these is the princi ple of free and responsible inquiry. The right to investigate the unknown, to study it, and to evaluate it in the impartial light of truth is one which the academic community insists upon preserving. Indeed, the very symbol of higher education is a lamp to light the way. The permanent elimination of these groups depends upon the full cooperation and active support of students, faculty, alumni, and friends of the University. Writer Questions: 'What's Wrong With Sub-Rosas?9 To the Editor: I wish that someone would explain what is so bad about these "sub rosa" organizations. All that I can learn from the Daily Nebraskan is that students shouldn't belong to them because that would be against the rules and they might get caught. Nowhere have I found an explanation of why such membership is against the rules, or why the penalty for getting caught is so extreme. Granted, these or ganizations are downright silly in concept, and in practice they sometimes sponsor minor property damage. The same can be said for many legal organizations. But don't we aO have a right to be silly at times? And should minor property damage be punishment able by WILLIAM TELLS by robert L wflliamsf The October issue of Esquire contains in the term students use to describe the a provocative article on football by John football player "the animals." Keats entitled "Kickoff . . . and Kick- We are all aware of the problem. back." In the article, Mr. Keats thoroughly Now, what can be done, or is something airs the deplorable state of football. He already being done? The first step is to not only discusses college ball, but also put the fun back into football. Teams I high school, Junior high, and grade school should have good equipment and coaches, balL Although many articles have been but as amateurs they should play for fun. written on the subject, this one comes Professionals play for loot. This means I the closest to exacting the blame for the the end of athletic scholarships and all i situation. Mr. Keats puts most of the bur- other niceties. No matter how one may i den on the schools themselves. I'm in- try to talk around it, an athletic scholar- dined to agree, but I also feel that it goes WP is payment for playing ball. How a little deeper than this. many of today's college football players I The blame should go to our society it- wou ?jjTL , m f i self. The school official! are merely instni- rf ,Kw"?S i 1 ments. They have to present the public SSSS "JLkZ i haw a hnrfiu tnr wihlip mwtaHp WpY in 0113 direction is the College Athletic 5 now a Dess tor pubuc spectacle, we re conference consisting of Centre College, I he thecomplammeveryttmg f rom southwestern of Memphis, Washington aT.d I htfle league baseball to coflege basketbaU, Ue VnbrrmUyt University of the South I but jootbaflrequa.es our first attention be- (Sewanee), and Washington University of car. A is the biggest st j, None of ems schools pay their We are all familiar with all the shady athletes, yet each produces teams which deals. There is no need to reiterate these. play good ball. Most important of an, the I The general situation can be summed op students are proud of them. I Daily Nebraskan SEVENTY-SECOND YEAR OF hum. mm, mmii 1 mm tioitsvu aaamnnitta mm nn hMluHM atoll to tnm s 1 LlLlATlU.Tl trmm arfHarlal aaaaaraUa mm mm mm mt tto atoaanajttta S Telephone 432 7631 ext. 4223, 422S, 4227 An on- d.at w-ri. m rmmmur Member Associated CoOegiate Press, - latenwiiosal Press Representative, Na- m sx-snnan waff tlonal Advertising Service, Incorporated. TZMmZmZ em Goub, M 1 rnlUihed at: Room 11, Student Union, a"M ,""W,V.I., . Jm tmt I linc&la S, Nebraska. er j rmi 5 tits I. t KwMfhif MUr Dm WckUank lHa ft K KtnUiMr Wmrnmy mrm 1 Iwnl mm mtm dna atattar, lialm tmU. mi mm" mmrU rHm. .. ... kh-t Aula s pmt mtiu tm l.MMa, KtHMi Cmmj K4Hmn LMl Jmrnmrm, mxAm MmUmr, Lm Omraa ss Tto DaM Pmnmmm to aaaMaM Ma4T, WmimmmtMW, ' UM Vrttm . Cm laria. Gary Vmemy. Earn OmmHrkt S Tmvamt mm rrwt 4arla tto mtmmmX r. nmtmi amif JaaVr mUlt Wrttera , A. jlaara. tm Maara. nmMm mj-um m4 ntm awa. mm4 mmem artaa Aaraat, a BmtMmtrrfr, Tam IMXaata s !! af la taivaraJ W a aaaar Hia rkatacraahar aaiai-, lamallwaat 3 , Mrs mt mm CmmmuUmm mm Iraaal Atfasra a nicmlal ftaaartan JHaaa Ommmn, Jmm JUaaar as ' if IMi suspension and a perma nent blot on the record? If the punishment is to fit the crime, then it should be shown that a crime is extreme before punish ment is applied. We are all aware that the really extreme crime, in an in tellectual community, of academic dishonesty brings hardly any punish ment at all by our ad ministration. I have been at this University a number of years, and have heard these organizations bitter ly denounced not only by the student newspaper, but also by some of my About Letters niii la mm m iar miimni jjj; nt flflrtMHM mi iwrctt AmMmi iwdt trm af alt mttlm. Latter mm to S s alac4, ml Ha acrlflaMa aaV s 5 ina, mm to fm mt atoteaa mm- S tortat Fn mmt to 2 ntta naaaal. mt ckna ml fMieattoa. htytmr B mummmHnunmGe Statement) have a difficult time rationalizing the actions of the Adminstration in suspend ing students for membership in a certain organization which the University has out lawed. It is difficult to understand unless you are close to the problem of sub rosas; and people, including students, will continue to condemn these actions be cause they do not understand. As Dean Ross has said, this is a job of educating and explaining to these people who at tempt to oppose the University in this re gard. It is hoped that this statement will help. close and trusted col leagues. But I could nev er find out why. What have I overlooked? Sincerely yours, A Professor Confusion, Doubt Over Sub-Rosas To the Editor: I have been observing over a period of time, through your Daily Ne braskan articles, a cam pus faction very nearly gone mad over what ap pears to me, nothing. I am not, as a rule, very interested in these events; but this one has me highly interested. It has an aspect of "much ado . . . " I would like to know why these people are be ing suspended, how they are doing wrong and by whose interpretation? Just what is the (sub rosa) problem? Sincerely yours, James K- Taylor, Jr. ANN ARBOR, Mich. The student body presi dent and the presidents of five student organiza tions at Michigan State University iiave been placed on academic pro bation for violating their school's speaker policy. The six students violated the university's policy by sponsoring three speakers from the Student Non Violent Coordinating Com mittee without prior ap proval from the Univer sity Speaker Screening Committee. (Michigan State recent ly adopted a new policy under which no speaker may advocate any illegal action, and all speakers must be approved by a screening committee of five students and five faculty members.) Michigan State student government Pres i d e n t Robert Howard refused to sit on the committee in protest against the "pre censoring" body. He is an ex-officio member of the committee. The Campus Club Con ference, which Howard formed with the presidents of the local campus chap ters of the Young Demo crats, Young Socialists, NAACP, the United Na tions Club and the Human ist Society, violated the regulations. The six students were placed on disciplinary probation of at least 90 davs by the Committee of "Student Affairs. Dur ing that time they may not participate in student activities. The committee also re primanded the five or ganizations and said any further violation of t h e regulations by the organ izations would result in the loss of their charters. Howard has refused to resign his post officially although he has not func tioned as president since he was placed on proba tion. The Speaker of the Student Congress, James Barnes, has assumed the duties of the presidency. The Humanist Club an nounced they would spon sor tonight, without prior approval, a speaker from Protestants and Other Americans United for Sep aration of Church and State the second vio lation of the speaker pol icy by that organization. A petition in support of Howard has about 1,600 signatures (Michigan State University has an enroll ment of 26,000) and dem onstrations have been held to support him. wmmmmmmmitmi MI Take It Easy. . . But Take It Ha, Ha, Ha, Bill Jen nings. You got b e a t, whomped is the word, by your own boys. One must remember that all of the Husker squad with the exception of Jim Baffico and the student manager were recruited by Jennings. What did he do with them? Three wins, six losses and one tie. I heard him on the radio in an interview before Satur day's game and he said, "There isn't much differ ence in the squad. The only new players this year are sophomore Kent McClough an, and transfers Baffico and Theisen. It's basically the same squad as last year." After the g a m e he was quoted as saying, "Oh well, it was just one of those days. They just beat us." I s n ' t it great to hear h i m MacLean say that in the Kansas dressing room instead of ours? But, you were wrong again in your estimation of people, Bill. From what I could perceive from cover ing the team last year and talking to the players, etc. Jennings treated the play ers like machines. He was good to them but never really realized that they were people who occasion ally needed a pep talk or a slap on the back, or maybe even, (heaven forbid!) a joke! Jennings is a fine Mi ,.oMJP THEM THEME WAS ME .iiwiiW.iijliiluiiiiiiWuiijmi .. iwiwuimi Winston 11 Start with a carton and you'll end number one filter cigarette... first The next time you buy cigarettes, pure white, : modern filter ! cr plus j FILTER - BLEND up front SB a elgmreUe should I man and a good recruiter but he never did under stand the nature of the players. Anyway, he left Devaney a group of play ers that had gone 3-6-1 and who were used to hearing "Oh well, another one of those games, they just beat us." What did Rapid Robert do? He brought with him assistants who promulgated his philosophy that the pur pose of football is to win; it takes alot of hard work to be successful; and, it can be fun. This philosophy permeated spring practice. When the players re ported for the grueling fall camp, he greeted each of them with a handshake and an inquiry as to their family, summer job, etc. He actually treated them as people! In short, Devaney does realize that football play ers are a bunch of young men who are willing to try hard to win. He treated them as men, and corres pondingly, gave them a man's job to do WIN. They've done it. So, in a way it was the same squad as last year. The same men, a few posi tion changes, they were go ing to play in the same stadium that the Huskers lost 31-0 two years ago. But was it the same squad? 40-16. That's the differ ence. On the plane going down on Friday were the coaches, players, all the equipment, a few officials, and a desire and determin ation to win. Would they win? Nobody knew. But they were going to give it hell, that they were all ia..iiliiiiilnij,iliini if up knowing why Winston is America's in sales because it's first in flavor. buy pleasure by the carton...Winston! sure of. They hadn't heard, "Oh well, it was just one of those days" after the Mis souri game, they didn't think that way. Kansas Coach Jack Mit chell said in a post-game radio interview that he didn't understand what happened, that the game was a complete mystery to him. He said that Nebraska didn't do it, but that some thing had happened to Kan sas and he didn't know what. Jack, I suggest that what happened is that your team just got beat! It's as simple as that. Don't feel bad, Jack, they were beat by a better team. Whether it was man power (which you denied) or just desire (which it must be if it isn't manpower, Jack) that made it so is open to conjecture, but Nebraska was the best team. They wanted to win more than your players, is that such a mystery. An example of what I mean by the Husker's de sire and hustle, Co-Captain Dwain Carlson, told me aft er the game, "The score would have been 50-0 if we hadn't have stopped for half time, we had so much mo mentum going. Nobody could have stopped us." Whether Oklahoma State and Oklahoma will be able to stop them remains to be seen, but Kansas couldn't Saturday and I really don't see the mystery in it. One thing for s u r e, though, Nebraska will "slug it out" in the next two games. Again, I appeal to the students to give them all the support, they do need it and deserve it. N 5 '''i'fflMWWffl -il JJip 1SUB.I. BarmToeaastCamptiia, Wlne-BIaB,JI. a