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IT ' wiiimi!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiii!niiiiiiiiiiniiii: DODT3 ,4-WEEK voire II oelaw Om GoinisM yir CAMPUS . . . ELEVEN SENIORS were awarded Woodrow Wilson Na tional Fellowships and three others1 received honorable mention. Recipients included: Robert Cherny, Richard Denton, Mrs. Barbara Ann Padzik Grupe, Mrs. Joan Morton Jones, Mrs. Kay Lou ise Hemphill Michelfeld, Ri chard Law, Suzanne Murdock, Mrs. Ann Marie Semin Smith, Richard Smith, Jo Ann Strate man and Kathleen Robertson. Honorable mention went to John Shadle, Dave Kittams and Marvin Beal. PEACE CORPS WEEK brought six members to the campus to speak in living un its and to an information cen ter in the lounge of the Ne braska Union and administer placement tests to those in terested in the Corps. BUDGET DISCUSSION be gan this week in the legisla ture. Board of Regents presi dent Val Peterson presented the $462.3 million operating request for the coming bien nium and capital improve ment plans totaling $35.8 mil lion. "Nebraska is an excel lent University but I do not think it is a great University. We should strive for great ness or close it up," said Peterson. CITY BETTER THAN EXPECT ED progress in patching streets damaged by the thaw of this winter's heavy snow storms is reported by the city's acting director of pub lic works, Robert Obering. A considerable amount of per manent patching has been done but city crews are still putting temporary patches on sections of streets so heavily damaged -that they will have to be completely resurfaced. SPECIAL MEMORIAL SERVICE was held at the Lincoln statue at the State Capitol Building for persons killed in Alabama race con flict. Upwards of 500 persons attended the service and then joined in a silent "walk of public witness to our beliefs" around the building. DISPUTE INVOLVING the transfer of land from an Ad ams county school district to a Webster county school dis trict was carried to the State Supreme court. Adams Coun ty contends the transfer of land was illegal. STATE . . . E X-N EBRASKAN, Dr. James Christensen, instructor in the Department of Intern al Medicine at the University of Iowa, has received a 30 thousand dollar Markle Award for Scholars in t h e Medical Sciences. Christen sen received his B.A., M.S., and M.D. degrees from the University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha, na tional medical honor society. NEBRASKA IS AHEAD of the national average in t h e rate of construction progress in the Interstate Highway Sys tem. The state also received a check for $49,916 as a "bo nus" for regulating billboard advertising along the Inter state from Kearney to Grand Island. It is the first payment in an estimated $1,250,000 the state will receive for controll ing billboards on all rural portions of the superhighway. NATION . . . U.S. NAVY PLANES and warships have been giving active assistance in patrolling weapons traffic by thousands of junks off the Vietnamese coast. At the sam time the United States plans to in crease the number of helicop ters and advisers operating with the South Vietnam forc es. JOHNSON SENT TO CON GRESS his blueprint to assure Negroes the voting rights for which they have been marching, praying and demonstrating. Enact ment this year appeared cer tain since Senate leaders of both parties gave full approv al in advance to the bill. Vol. 80, No. 102 Luke, Trash escribe Selma By Prlscilla Mullins Senior Staff Writer "It's real!" Dr. Hugh Luke said of the situation ia Selma, Alabama. Luke and Dr. David Trask, both University professors, attended the Monday memorial service for Unitarian min ister James Reeb. "The depth of the committment to non-violence by the Negroes in Selma was what impressed me most," Trask said. "Many assume that non-violence is a tactic, not a committment, but this is a way of life, a basic principle." Luke mentioned that almost every barrier was broken during the service. There were people of many religions, occupations and races present at the service, he said. The people coming from the North are widely repre sentative, Trask said. They are not just ministers. Luke added that there were students, salesmen, house wives, social workers and even the president of a tool man ufacturing corporation. Trask also noted the unanimity of support by the Neg roes. "Every Negro was there, from the child in arms to an old woman with a cane." Another important thing which came out of the Mon day service and march was the further impact on the white people of Selma, according to Trask. "They are finally be ginning to understand." To this, Luke added the story of a man standing in front of his shop as the marchers went by. The man said to a friend, in a voice loud enough to be heard, "You know, this could be a good thing for the South." This kind of demonstration, Luke said, is giving support to the silent moderates of the South. "There are many whites ready to act," Trask said. "This gives them motivation." There were some white southerners in the march, according to Luke. "These are the brave people. They have to live there." Trask noted the increasing desire by white southerners to contribute. -to the movement. About 10 or 11 years ago, when he was in Alabama, things were much different, he said. "It was like the difference between night and day a veritable revolution." Luke said that even two and one half years ago when he was in the area, "there was nothing like this present." Both men agreed on the significance of Martin Luther King as the leader of the Selma situation. "King stood head and shoulders above any of the other leaders," Trask said. "There was just something electric when King arrived for the service," Luke said. There were many other Negro leaders there, accord ing to Trask, and many important people from the North. The lieutenant governor of Massachusetts and a representa tive of Senator Edward Kennedy were present, he said. In response to claims that the press is exaggerating the civil rights situation, both Trask and Luke said that this is absolutely not so. "The press coverage has been superb," Trask said. He went on to say that the real problem for the demonstrators was the sheriff's posse. "The people re spected the local police, but feared the tactics of the posse," he said. Concerning the rumored arrest of four other Univer sity persons Monday, Luke explained the origin of the rumor. He said that announcements were made all day Sunday that any persons at the picket line at 8 a.m. Mon day would be arrested. One of the University persons called Lincoln shortly before 8 and said that they expected to be arrested in half an hour. The arrest didn't occur, Luke said, because it was "just a bluff by the local authorities, and it didn't work. They just didn't have the room to put 6,000 people in jail." Commenting on the march to the Selma court house after the service, Luke said that there was an announce ment made that the march would be permitted. The peo ple were told that they would lineup in ranks of three and mach to the court house. "This made it a very effective memorial service," he said. "It was what Rev. Reeb would have wanted." Trask observed that the cooperation in the march was "remarkable." Within a 10-15 minute period after the announcement was made, some 3,000-4,000 persons were forming the lines and beginning to march. This demon strates the intensity of the committment and the under standing of what is to be done, Trask said. Luke said the march was completely silent. When they arrived at the court house, King gave a short speech and a couple of short prayers. A wreath was then placed on the door, and the marchers sang a couple of verses of "We Shall Overcome." "I'm sure the whole town heard it," Luke said. "I cer tainly hope so." Generalizing on the whole situation, Trask said "this is not the result of several years of training, but of a few months of work." Referring to the non-violence principle, Luke said that he was given some advice while in Selma. "I was told the non-violent position to take in case of atack." This consists of putting both arms over the head, covering the back of the head. "If Rev. Reeb had done this, he would be alive now," he said. Commenting on the general situation, Luke said "The idea is here. There's no stopping it. The South is going to change. It's gaining strength every day." "In a few years by 1908 it will be a very different South," he said. Trask added that he was amazed to find that the south ern Negroes "understand that what they had done was of significance to the state, the nation and tlie whole world." "They seem to understand the historical role they are playing," he 'said. "They know the larger meaning of what they are doing that they are acting for oppressed people everywhere," T The Daily Nebraskan D . . ' - , u s -, ' v , -V k ' 1 IV. v'. .V'-V'tt v-i . -.J l'VC;' ' "( ' 'V '-! f-':" M r-7 r I; Mary Thorp as Hesione and Dean Tschetter as Mangan rehearse for next week's production of "Heartbreak House" to be presented by the University Theater next Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. Lomaxl Lecture Change I Dr. Louis Lomax, authority on the Black Muslim move ment, will appear today at 3:30 in the Nebraska Union ballroom. The lecture was scheduled for yesterday, but bad weath er delayed Lomax's plane. Lomax will speak on t h e "Negro Revolt Revisited." "I will try to cover three main areas in my lecture," said Lomax: "How we got where we are now in the re volt, an evaluation of the cur rent movement and where the revolt will go from here." "The revolt is part of an overall shift in the ways of western civilization," Lomax said. Lomax has written three best-sellers on the Negro and is considered one of the leading authorities on race problems in Amercia. "Nothing short of Federal intervention will do the job," Lomax said, referring to the situation in Selma, Alabama. "I do not agree with the Attorney General that the fed eral government does not have the power. The govern ment has the power to move in when a state of anarchy exists, and it is certainly a b reakdown of peace when people ride around on horses hitting other people on t h e head," Lomax said. Lomax was assistant pro fessor of philosophy at Geor gia State College in Savannah, Ga., before he turned to writ ing when he was 22. His first book, "The Re luctant African," won the Sat urday Review Annisfield-Wolf award for 1960. "The Negro Revolt," his second book, is considered to be the definitive work on race relations in America today. His last book, "When t h e Word Is Given" is a study on the Black Muslim movement. There will be no admission charge. Lomax will also speak at the Unitarian Church at 8 tonight. Dairy Club Announces 'Princess' Candidates Five coeds are candidates for the title of 1965 Dairy Royal Princess. The winner will be revealed at the annual Dairy Royal Dance March 27 at the East Campus activities building, sponsored by the NU Varsity Dairy Club. Candidates include Marcia Gregerson, S h e r y 1 Ehlers, Cleo Warman, Cheryl Uden Land Ann Hocgemeyer. Union Presents Films; Hot Discussion Sparke EDITORS NOTE: The fol lowing article is a review of the films shown in the Ne braska Union Wednesday night and the following dis cussion. By Wayne Krcuschcr Junior Staff Writer Sometimes University stu dents become disappointed because of the conservative, unintellectual, unstimulating atmosphere outside of the classroom. Often, it seems, students come to the University ex pecting to learn to think, question and doubt about con troversial problems. But instead the majority of the students seem to never find a place on campus where it isn't taboo to think or want to discuss important ideas and doubts. Fortunately this was not the case Wednesday night when the Union Talks and Topics Committee showed the films "Operation Abolition" and "Operation Correction" in the Union auditorium. Annroximatelv 40 students and teachers watched the controversial films and after wards a fervent discussion led by Jerry Behringer, soci ology professor, included ev erything from intelligent threats and accusations to predictions about the right and left sides of American po litical and social life. The films concerned the controversy of the 1961 stu dent riots in San Francisco during meetings of the House Committee on Unamerican Activities (HUAC) in that city. The first film, "Operation Ahnminiv" is a document which the Committee used at that time to prove that t n e riots were inspired by Com munists and that there was evidently a strong communist movement in the country. "Operation Correction," the second film which was made by the Civil Liberties Union, reviewed the same scenes as the first film, but pointed out the mistakes, sensationalism end false conclusions that the House on Unamerican Activi ties Committee made when it. said that Communists had inspired the student riots. "Operation Correction" sug gested that the riots were ac tually more American than the Committee because the students were protesting against the unfair tactics of the Committee. There is no question about it if Talks and Topics want ed two films that would cre ate discussion and controver sy they could have found no two films better than these , about HUAC. which in the past Friday, March 19, 1965 have caused a great deal of comment. The Dailv Nebraskan itself was investigated by the Ne braska Legislature m 1961 when the editor of the paper at that time questioned HUAC s purposes and tactics I he nlm referred to is nothing but a cheap trick on the part of reactionary ele ments in our government who have maliciously credited the true story to bring across their point that the Commu nist party in this country is manipulating the youth and infiltrating student move ments with its agitation tac tics." said Herb Probasco in a Daily Nebraskan editorial at that time. Probasco was editor of the Daily Nebraskan for the first semester in 1961. After pointing out eight charges against the Commit tee made by Congressman James Roosevelt in 1961, Pro basco ended his editorial by saying: "With the threat of Comm unism as great as it is, we cannot afford to let a cum bersome, bureaucratic organ such as HUAC to clog the necessary process of a demo cratic society, of which an in herent right to differ is es sential, regardless of wheth er this difference might be contrary to conservative ide ology." The discussion after the film Wednesday night also showed that most students seem to agree with Probasco that HUAC's film was unfair and the committee was over stepping the basic rights of Americans insured in the Constitution. Informally stating their ideas often to an almost riot ing pitch, the film's audience argued about such ideas as What is a communist? How do you determine when a per son is being Unamerican? How socialistic can a person be without being a commu nist? The serious discussion reached a peak when one stu dent got up and quietly said he took part in the riots and was one of the student!) dragg ed down the stairs of San Francisco's City Hall after the police hosed the:?.. He seemed to suggest that most of the students were at the riot only because they had heard that the Commit tee was not allowing people in the hearing on a fair basis. Liz Aitken, chairman of the Union Talks and Topics Com mittee, said that since the films were so successful, es pecially the following discus sion, other films and inform al groups of this type will de finitely be planned in the fu- I ture,. Adoption Yes or No? Vote Today Will Decide The proposed Student Coun cil Constitution goes to the polls today after five months of preparation. Booths will be set up m the lounge of t h e Nebraska Union and will be open today from 8 a.m. un til 4:30 p.m. If approved, the constitu tion will provide a three- branch government called the Association of the Stu dents of the University of Ne braska (ASUN). All full-time students would automatically become members and would be represented through a sen ate containing 35 members. Several sweeping changes are included in the body of the new constitution. It would expand the council from its present single branch form to a three branch form. A judicial and a legislative branch would be added to the present legislative branch. Representatives would be chosen from the colleges by direct apportionment rather than the present composition of college representatives as well as representatives from several campus organizations. The current Council presi dent and vice-president are elected from among the hold over members by the new Council at its first meeting. The new constitution would make the president and the vice-president run directly from the student body. The move for a new consti tution at the University has picked up momentum for the last two years, starting with several parties and move ments to drastically amend the old document in an at tempt to add some power to the structure. In the spring of 1964, a group of students presented a complete document to the Stu dent Council with the required number of student signatures for a constitutional amend ment. After a hard-fought bat tle in the Council's Judiciary Committee and in the Faculty Senate Committee on Student Affairs, the proposed amend ments were held to be a "re vision" for which there was no current constitutional pro vision. The desire for a new con stitution grew when the at tempts for amendment failed. As a result the Student C o u n c il Constitutional Con vention was set with the task of creating a new constitu tion. If approved by the students and the Board of Regents, the new document will govern this spring's student govern ment elections. Actual opera tion of the ASUN would then begin for the first time next fall. Issuance Of Bonds Questioned There is "substantial ques tion" about the constitution ality of the University's pro posal to issue revenue bonds for a $24.5 million construction program on the campus, ac cording to a statement from the attorney general's office. A Lincoln newspaper re ported that Sen. Fern Hubbard Orme was informed of this fact by the attorney general's office. University officials have confirmed the contents of the statement, according to the Star newspaper, but Mrs. Orme declined to release the text until further study has been made on it. The long-term revenue bonds would be issued, to be backed by student tuition fee income. About $2.5 million from these fees would be used each biennium to service the debt, and the University would seek to replace that amount through the operating budget, appropriated from the state legislature. The Nebraska Constitution prohibits the incurring of a public debt of more than $100, ooo. The bond proposal is con stitutional, University offi cials contend, as long as they do not use tax money to re tire the bonds. Theatre Will Present 'Irish Words, Music' Readers Theatre will present "Irish Words & Music" to morrow and Sunday at 8:00 p.m. in the Arena Theatre, room 302 of the Temple Build ing. There will be no admission charge. Selections will be read from Shaw, Lady Gregory, Yates, O'Casey and Brendoa iBehen..
