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BySusan Stanley
"If I were a Communist in South Viet Nam, I would
just sit and wait, because the present government is the big
gest asset Communism could have," said His Excellency
Tran Van Chuong, former ambassador to the United States
from the tiny Southeast Asian republic.
The father of Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, sharp-tongued "Dra
gon Lady" sister-in-law of South Viet Nam's president, was
addressing the concluding Saturday session of the 12th An
nual Midwestern Conference on Asian Affairs, held at the
Nebraska Center for Continuing Education.
Dr. Chuong, who holds a doctorate in law from the Uni
versity of Paris, outlined "The Buddhist Crisis in South Viet
Nam" with illustrations of what he termed as "stupid meas
ures." When he returned in the 1920's from European studies
to his home in Hue, Br. Chuong said, he "had a dream" of
spending the remainder of his life there.
"This was my country, the soul of my life . . . The pop
ulation there is very refined," he said, yet "It was there
that the so-called 'Buddhist crisis' first broke out" in May,
TRAN VAN CHUONG
Vol 77, No. t? fc
Sig Chi Derby Day Sports
Paint, Mud, Whipped Cream
Delta .Gamma sorority
walked off the field with all
three trophies in the annual
Sigma Chi Derby Day held
Saturday.
Kathie Glade won the Miss
Derby Day contest, and her
sorority sisters completed the
sweep by taking the spirit
and Overall trophies. This is
f . - v .
s "
Miss Glade
the second time for the Del
ta Gammas; they also held all
three trophies in 1958.
In the other events, Karen
Hoggs, Barb Smith, Kay Kra
mer, Betty Higgin, Barb
Halpe and Jeanne Fause of
Kappa Alpha Theta won the
Fishpole Race, while the Bur
lap Sack Relay was won by
Wherry Head
Of Quiz Bowl
Dan Wherry has been cho
fen as over-all chairman of
the Quiz Bowl committee, ac
cording to Sue Vandecar, Stu
dent Council Quiz Bowl chair
man. Three sub-chairmen were
chosen to head the arrange
ments, publicity and ques
tions committees. Chairmen
of the arrangements commit
tee is Dan Rosenthal. Cuz
Gunzel will head the publicity
committee and Barb Pandzik
will share duties on the ques
tions committee with a facul
ty member.
The group will hold their
first njeeting Wednesday at
3 p.m. in the Student Council
office.
Lab Play Tryouts
Slated In Temple
Tryouts for lab plays will
be held today and tomorrow
from 3-5 p.m. in 301 Temple
building for student-directed
plays.
The plays, authors and di
rectors are "Great God
Brown, Eugene O'Neill, direct
ed by Carroll Parmenter;
"The Laboratory," Daive
Campton, directed by Charles
Patton and a scene from
"MacBeth" by Shakespeare,
directed by Mary Thorpe.
PHOTO BT HAL FOSTtE
South Viet Nam government Is Communist asset.
Kappa
the Pi Beta Phi team of Lynn
Broyhill, Judy Hinn, Marcia
Kuper and Jean Higgins.
In the Whip Cream Special,
Jeannine Fellows and Danni
Roth of Alpha Delta Pi
emerged gooey but trium
phant. Other messy but happy win
ners included Roberta Layton
of Zeta Tau Alpha who won
the Treasure Hunt, and Lynda
Dean and Katy Howell of Kap
pa Delta who won the Butter
fingers event.
In the Deck a Pledge con
test the Alpha Omlcron Pi
threesome of LeAnn Schmitt,
Sandy Torek, and Marilyn
Miller proved effective, while
Bee Baxter of Alpha Chi
Omega won the Low Jump.
Mrs. Margo LeRoy, House
mother for the Delta Gam
mas took the prize for the
Housemother's contest.
Over 800 girls had their
jeans branded with the Sigma
Chi brand. Pi Beta Phi soror
ity was the leader in that
catory.
Tryouts To Be Held
Tryouts for Aquaquettes,
the University women's swim
club, will be Oct. 29 and 30,
at 7 p.m. in the Coliseum.
To be eligible for try-outs,
students must attend one of
two practices held Tuesday
and Thursday at 7 p.m. in the
Coliseum.
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1919 Expansion Plans Found
Plea
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story wss
written by Jim Forrest in connection
with the depth fiery he wrote on pae
three. Both stories concern the rate of
trowth 01 the University of Nebraska
ml other Bis Kilfht and Big -Ten
schools and how this affects the time
allotted between classes.
By Jim Forrest
Ever long for the good old
days?
Planners at the University
of Nebraska are, and for a
good reason. The cost of ex
panding the physical facil
ities of its Lincoln city cam
pus back in the days of
horse and buggies, bustles
and band concerts would
have taken only five-per
cent of the money it is tak
ing now.
This is the estimate of
NU's Business Manager
Carl Donaldson as he looked
over a re-discovered expan
sion plan made for the cam
pus in 1919.
"If this plan only would
have been followed," he
'said with almost a sigh,
"the University would be in
a much better position to
day." The plan has become quite
a curiosity around the grey
The Doily Nebroskan
Alpha Psi Forms Plans
SOOBD
By Susan Smithberger
Senior Staff Writer
Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity,
composed primarily of Ne
gres, has become more active
on the University campus this
year and is making plans for
admission to Interfraternity
Council (IFC), according to
Dick Rosenberg, IFC expan
sion committee chairman.
"Negro enrollment has in
creased so in the last year,"
said Richard Brown, keeper
of the records for the fratern
ity, "that we now have more
personnel with which to
work, which accounts for
our increased activity."
Ulysses Brown, vice presi
dent, has compiled a state
ment of their aims and pur
poses which they will present
to IFC in the near future. "I
think that they can attain the
necessary requirements to be
seated on the IFC Council,"
said Rosenberg.
The group, now consisting
of four actives, will activate
18 pledges in December, ac
cording to Brown. He said
that as soon as those mem
bers are activated, the group
will be recognized by admin
istration. Activating requirements for
Kappa Alpha Psi are stricter
than for other fraternities on
this campus. Twenty-five
hours of at least 5.000 are re
quired, scholastically. Brown
pointed out that this is not
an all-Negro fraternity. It is
open to all who can meet their
qualifications.
Freshmen submit a letter
saying they would like to join
the group. Members are chos
en from this group. A year's
plcdgeship is necessary to
halls of the Administration
Building and has caused
considerable stirring of ad
ministrative hindsight and
"if only" wishing.
In referring to this plan
Dr. Adam Breckenridge,
vice chancellor, indicated
that the failure to follow this
plan has resulted in "expan
sion headaches."
The plan is a 1919 archi
tectural study showing the
desired utilization of the
"University zone in the city
of Lincoln."
Inflaming the present day
planners is the question:
What happened to the plan?
If the early builders of the
University had the foresight
to order a plan to be made,
why wasn't it followed?
No one knows. Time has
covered up all trace or his
tory concerning the plan.
There isn't even much seri
ous speculation among Ne
braska administrators as to
its fate. The sad fact is that
it was shelved or lost for
over a half century. Today
it is just a curiosity.
meet the scholastic require
ment. Kappa Alpha Psi was or
ganized on this campus in
1916, the seventh chapter to
be formed and has been here
since, according to Brown.
There are 242 active chapters
with 28,000 active members
throughout the country.
Kappa Alpha Psi is one of
four predominantly-Negro fra
ternities in the United States.
The others are Alpha Phi
Alpha, Omega Psi Phi and,
Phi Beta Sigma.
Because of its alumni group
here and its strong national
organization, Kappa Alpha
Psi feels that the possibility
of some financial backing for
housing In the future will be
feasible.
The main aim of Kappa Al
pha Psi is achievement
through brotherhood.
Gene Young is president of
the group. William Paschall
is dean of pledges.
Pledges are Harry Arnold,
Langston Coleman, Robert
Brown, James Brown, Wil
ford Dodd, Louis Dillard, Ray
mond Dorsey, Richard Lloyd,
John Moore, Willie Mitchell,
Freeman White, Henry
Woods, Wayne Williams, Ted
Vactor, Anthony Jeter, Wil
liam Jones, Wes Hornsby
and Charles Jones.
Pledging will take place in
January after the present
pledges are activated.
"We do not feel that we
want to join a predominantly
white fraternity," said Brown,
"because we want to be in
with people of our own race.
We do not want to join a
group where we will be the
exception to the rule."
five Crrerf Fores sit
In 1919 the University's
city campus occupied about
16 square blocks between
10th and 14th, and north
from R Street as far as the
general line of Vine Street.
Today this area is the tradition-center
of a 50-square
block megalomaniac xam
pus. Many of the buildings
indicated as already built in'
the 1919 plan are still stand
ing. But some have been
torn down and others are
scheduled to be to make
room for modern education
al edifices.
It is an area of ivy
covered buildings, winding
walkways of brick, large,
full-leafed trees that shade
monuments inscribed: "Do
nated by the Class of . . ."
At the time of the draw
ing of the 1919 plan by an
Omaha architectural firm
University planners said:
"This area must be given
over completely to instruc
tional and athletic build
ings, and is entirely inad
adequate . . ."
Monday, Oct. 21, 1963
Revision
In Oath
Detailed
University, Ala. (CPS)-The
University of Alabama has
significantly modified the oath
restricting all students from
writing for news media on
matters expressly concerning
race relations.
Restrictions are only in
force prohibiitng students
from writing about Negro stu
dents on the campus or about
applicants to the lUniversity.
This action was taken at the
end of September, but official
announcement came only last
week.
Also added to the pledge
was the phrase, "No prohibi
tions on writing herein con
tained apply to the Crimson
White, the University news
paper." A University spokesman
said the change was made
because "the greatest period
of danger for the University
is past"
"We didn't want the phrase
tacit approval of racial vio
lence' attached to us as it
was the administration of the
University of Mississippi. We
were determined to act in
whatever ways we thought
necessary to forestall the
eruption of an explosive at
mosphere on our campus," he
said.
Realizing this, University
planners of 1919 sat down
and drew up a plan for Ne
braska's future which curi
ously matches almost the
exact area the 1963 campus
covers from 9th to 17th
east and west, and from Q
street to the railroad tracks
north and south
Even the football stadium
was drawn into the campus
plan in the exact spot it was
built nearly three decades
later.
The plan provided for ad
dition space for the Col
lege of Engineering, to the
west of the 1919 campus,
and in the vicinity of the
trarsportation building
which provided students
with their own campus rail
road station.
Carl Donaldson has said
that the University today is
greatly concerned with the
lack of recreational areas
for campus residents; so
were his predecessors in
1919. The plan shows exten
sive playing fields in con
junction with the dormitor
cozes liiecpEHfie
1963, "the bloody repression of a Buddhist demonstration."
It was the present government which created the crisis,
Dr. Chuong believes.
"On the eve of the anniversary of the birth of Buddha,"
the government made a reminder that religious flags should
not be displayed, "forgetting" that only three days previ
ously, Roman Catholic flags had been publically displayed.
South Viet Nam's population is about 80 per cent Buddhist.
Protests of this governmental "reminder" were made
"in the most minor way," he said, and demonstrators
numbered among themselves "little children and girls."
Orders to disperse by the police resulted in "the stupid
killings" by tank guns of eight or nine persons, "among
them at least six children."
"Of course, the population was enflamed," said Dr.
Chuong, and within two weeks, students, "among them
Catholics, as well as Buddhists," demontrated against "the
bloody repression."
The official governmental reaction resulted in "sixty
students being transported to a hospital."
"And it went on like that . . . repression after repres
sion." "And then the first suicide by fire happened . . , and
the whole world has seen his picture."
Dr. Chuong emphasized that his government might have
solved the initial problems as they came along.
"Never in Viet Nam have we had such a stupid regime
. . . This government has the genius to transform the most
minor incident into a crime, without even a second thought."
Raids began to be made on the Buddhist pagodas, "in
order to silence the monks and nuns," he said.
"Thousands of monks and nuns were rounded up
treated like criminals."
"When I heard of these raids on pagodas, I resigned,"
as his country's ambassador to the United tates in August,
he said.
"The spirit of revolt had reached the students," and
even certain elements of the government itself.
"Indeed, the Communist regime is more brutai that the
present government ... but never would the Communists
have been so stupid as to raid the pagodas," and make
"mass arrest of thousands of students, boys and girls, in a
country which has always had uch a great respect for re
ligion and education."
Continuing in his vigorous condemnation of the Diem
government policies, Dr. Chuong said, "They are so blind
as to say: 'The monks? They are only hooligans Communist-incited."
"And I read in the newspaper only yesterday that they
are also incited by the CIA," he said, laughing.
"Well, I challenge any CIA member to incite a man to
burn himself to death."
"Have any of them (the monks who have committed
suicide) said anything in favor of Communism?"
Regarding American reporters in South Viet Nam who
have allegedly been beaten, Dr. Chuong quoted a Diem
government spokesman who dismissed such charges with,
"Yes, they have been beaten, but in my country no one is
beaten without a reason."
All newsmen, he said, are regarded as "a part of the
international Communist network."
"I essentially believe that there is no possibility at all
of ever winning the war under the present political condi
tions ... No victory can be achieved with this regime
it is so blind that it can drive the country into the arms of
Communism."
"It is important that you in the United States do not
give the people of South Viet Nam the impression that they
are being abandoned to such a regime, for it would be
enough to drive them to the neutralists or the Com
munists." In a question-and-anwer session following his address,
Dr. Chuong dealt with the question of the substantial Amer
ican aid which daily is flowing into his country.
"I think we must have another approach to foreign aid.
The United States has been almost paralyzed by the fear of
interfering. It is almost an interference to give such aid
almost ll2 million a day to the government in power."
"When you give such aid, it is not only your right, but
your duty, to see that such money is used for good and not
for evil and it certainly has been used for evil"
"The government of South Viet Nam has for nine years
misused American aid. It has supressed all opposition."
"It has been said that the anti-Communist element
have been treated more harshly than the Communists them
selves," he said.
ies to be north east of the
instructional campus.
Planners today looking at
the 1919 plan are impressed
by the indicated utilization
of the nine blocks directly
east of the instructional
campus, i.e., between 14th
and 17th, and north from R
Street, as a great commun
ity center for the University
and the state.
In this community center
the 1919 planners wanted to
put all those buildings
which are most public in
their character and of serv
ice to the University and
the people of Nebraska
alike.
The most startling aspect
of the 1919 plan is the in
credible foresight of the
University's administration
in 1919. Today's planners
are amazed:
"This plan anticipated
everything the University
and the city has and is try
ing to do,", said Donaldson.
The eastern area of the
campus as drawn in 1919
was to be the center of a
radiating system of boule
vards, connecting with all
the state Institutions of the
capitol city.
Antelope Valley Boule
vard" would have pre-dated
the Lincoln southeast diag
onal, Normal Boulevard, by
some fifty years.
. "State Farm Boulevard"
would still be accomodating
traffic, but instead city
planners are just getting
set to begin on a northeast
city diagonal.
The funny bone of Univer
sity officials was struck
when they read in the note!
made by 1919 planners:
"When the Rock Island
Railroad removes from its
present location to the east
of campus (as it is hoped
and expected that it will)
This is a hoped for and
expected move yet today
among University planners.
But there the tracks sit
blocking expansion to the
east in 1963 just as much
as in 1919.
Time passes, but does it
change?
