"tr.. f ; . f i . jr. - ( t 5 ill , hr , : )' N 5- ?1 il La,-, 7 ARCHIVES Vol. 8UNq,..6.U The Daily Nebraskan Thursday, Feb. 10, 1966 'h Pending Legal Counsel . . . ostpone anction neques 'I ii f s t i-i Kerala jr f s , t t v - jf ijs s t i rtB j y7 mmft & rmtnakU- a& lt W y I INTERVIEW . . . with Daily Nebraskan Senior Staff Writer Jan Itkin, Tony Redman, and Tom Holeman. Spirit, Leadership Needed In Dorms EDITOR'S NOTE: This Is the first article in a series about dorm govern ment and Independent or ganization, its problems and future at the Universi ty. Three presidents of dormi tory governments whose de cisions directly effect the 10 per cent of the University en rollment who live in Abel Cather and Selleck indicated to the Daily Nebraskan that their organizations were fac ing similar problems and were attempting to find solu tions for them. Marv Almy, president of the Residence Association for Men (RAM); Tom Heleman, president of the Abel Hall executive council; and Tony Redman, president of Cather Hall executive council, cited problems such as developing organization, creating partici pation and building leader ship. "The feeling of participa tion can only come as people become better acquainted with the unit," Almy ex plained, whose "association for men" is two-thirds wom en. "Group activities, like Candy May's campaip for Homecoming Queen, helped build the feeling of belonging to a unit." Creating a spirit of belong ing to a unit was mentioned as a major problem by all three presidents. "We can't really do much to stimulate the feeling if it isn't there," Almy said. "Part of the problem exists because of a lack of continui tythose students who will only be living here for one year, see no reason to really get involved." Abel Hall has additional problems, according to Hole man. Approximately 80 per cent of its residents are fresh men "who don't know how the University is run and don't know what to look for yet." "Also this semester is the first one we are organized." he added. "First semester was spent organizing, and nothing actually came from the hall itself in the way of programming and direction for the residents." Programming and activities would seem to .be the answer Interfratemity Council Elects Gless., Kenagy To Executive Posts By BRUCE GILES Senior Staff Writer Darryl Gless, Sigma Phi Epsilon, and John Kenagy, Phi Gamma Delta, were elected secretary and treasur er of the Interfratemity Coun cil (IFC) at the meeting Wednesday night. Gless ran against Gail Bur bridge, Phi Kappa Psi, and Jim Shreck, Beta Theta Pi in a highly contested race. Gless, who is recording sec retary of his fraternity, was also on the Junior IFC and is a member of the public rela tions committee. He said that he would at tempt to "push a better atti tude toward scholarship and increase public relations ac tivity" during his term as sec retary and member of t h e IFC executive committee. Stressing the need to get in formation about IFC back to individual houses, Gless said he would "work with the houses to build individual pro grams that we (IFC) can't do alone." He also urged the IFC to work with principals of Ne to work with principals of Ne braska high schools in pre senting the Greek system. Kenagy was nominated at last week's meeting for vice president. Gall Burbridge and Andy Taube were nominuted to the participation-s p i r i t problem. "Our purpose as an inde pendent hall is to provide a well-balanced program of so cial, intramural and cultural projects that can further the education of our residents," Holeman said. "The pro grams will be there is the in dividual wants to use them." He listed plans for the sem ester, including a series of one-act plays, dances and monthly open houses, as well as an intramural program to increase participation. RAM is the oldest dormi tory government in operation and in some respects does not have the same problems as the other two. "It's just that we're older and more established," Almy commented. "We also have a degree of tradition." "We attempt to encourage participation on two levels," he continued, "both on t h e council level and the house level. On the council level we publish an intra-Selleck newspaper and the individual houses have functions, par ties and intramurals." AH the presidents agreed that an inter-dormitory coun cil would help them and sug gested that one may foees tablished within a year. The degree of individual apathy was a point of dis agreement. Holeman said that dormi tory spirit was present at the University, but that "it had not as yet reached Abel" be cause of its newness. , "Here at Abel though, we did have a good proportion of the residents at the polls Cont. on Page 4, Col. 1 European Trip A meeting for people inter ested in the European flight being sponsored by ASUN this summer will be held at 7:30 p.m., Thursday in the Nebras ka Union. Carolyn Freeman, chairman of the flight committee, said that a travel film on Switzer land will be shown and rep resentatives from Van Bloom Tour and Travel and Trans World Airlines will speak. from the floor during the meeting. Taube declined the nomination. Kenagy is president of Phi Gamma Delta and current IFC rush chairman. He w a s also a member of the IFC Food Marketing Association (FMA) committee. Kenagy, who will be in charge of the IFC rush pro gram, said he would like to see IBM in the rush, because there is presently too much "busy work." He said that he would also like to see Abel Hall be used to house rushees furing rush week rather than Selleck Quadrangle "if it can be worked out." The IFC also approved a re port on deferred pledging as a policy statement. The report 6tates that the IFC rush committee found conditions that must exist within the fraternity system for the advantages of deferred rushing simply do not exist at the University of Nebraska. While one of the cited ad vantages is that deferred pledging, offers fraternities and the individual rushees a better chance to judge each other, the report stated that through summer rush, "t h e fraternity system has an ade quate chance to judge t h t Student Senate Wednesday voted to table a motion re questing the Board of Re gents to sanction the publica tion of the ASUN Faculty Evaluation book until ASUN receives legal counsel on the liability aspects of the book. Kent Neumeister, president of ASUN, presented the mo tion which contained the fol lowing requests: that the Board of Regents sanction the publication of the book. that Faculty Senate sug gest that the Regents sanc tion the book in view that the Committee on Student Affairs . had approved it on Jan. 13. and that Chancellor Clif ford Hardin and G. Robert Ross, vice chancellor and dean of student affairs, write a letter to the Regents dis cussing the merits of the Faculty-Evaluation program. The motion was tabled af ter questions arose concern ing the legal liability in case of possible libel suits arising from the book. Neumeister prefaced his re solution by reviewing the Tuesday meeting of the Com mittee on Student Affairs at which approval of the book was rescinded. He then pre sented the following possible courses of action: The project could be dropped. The project could be mo dified by publishing only the favorable ratings, by not pub lishing the evaluations but turning them in to the instruc tors, or by having professors give consent to be evaluated. Study Groups Planned The University Council on Religion is sponsoring 21 dif ferent study groups concernin the modern world, theology and doctrine, the Bible and the Church. The Council on Religion, shich is a body composed of representatives from various religious groups on campus, began this series early in Feb ruary, according to a Council publication which describes the discussions. Discussions on problems in Southeast Asia, especially Viet Nam and China and "our relationship to them as Amer- Orientation Set Accoriing to present plans, the flight will leave Lincoln June 16 and return from Lon don August 18. The ASUN, with the h e 1 p of Van Bloom Tour and Trav el, is planning the flight in connection with a group plan for fares. The trip will cost $395. It is open to all University students, faculty and staff and their immediate families. values of the individual rush ee, and the rushee has a chance to assess the values of the individual fraternities." Also, through the use of ef fective scholarship programs, the committee reported that the pledge is directed to achieve the highest academic goals. The report also cited prob lems of deferred pledging in cluding the financial burden for fraternities, more policy problems for the IFC to han dle during the semester, and further cites the advantages of living in the cohesive unit of a fraternity over the "mass living in a dormitory." Balance sheets from the Student Activities Office con cerning the past year were given to members, but it was decided to defer action on the new budget until the next meeting in order to give mem bers a chance to look over the expenditures and receipts from the past year. A rush chairman and pub lic relations chairman will be elected at the next meeting. Mike Gottschalk, expanion committee chairman, reported that an expant;ion report will be presented at the IFC con ference scheduled for Satur day and Sunday. The project could be con tinued without official sanc tion. The project could be un dertaken on a commercial basis. Or the project could be taken to the Board of Re gents. . Neumeister noted that "wa tering down the book still leaves the matter open to li bel" and that publishing with out sanction would leave ASUN open to having an in junction issued against the book or having their trtasury frozen since it would be go ing directly against an ad ministrative decision. Having the Board of Re gents approve the book, he explained, would allow the book to be published without fear of liability on the part of the group issuing approval as the Board of Regents is considered an arm of the state and the state cannot be sued without first issuing per mission. Sen. Kelley Baker asked, "If the Board of Regents sanc tions the book, is the editorial staff and ASUN still liable?" Ross, who was present at the meeting, answered that if ASUN approved the publica tion, then it, in effect could be considered liable. Sen. Liz Aitken asked if the question of liability had arisen at the other schools contact ed which had faculty-evaluation books. Neumeister said that be cause of the difference of libel laws from state to state, as icans," will be held on Tues days beginning Feb. 22 in the Nebraska Union at 4:30 p.m. Other discussions will in clude the "Art of Loving," concerning the nature of Christian compassion, the meaning of sexual responsibil ity and the means for a ma ture relationship; and "Noth ing Succeeds Like Excess?" which will study the ethical trends of the "new morality" and consider attitudes toward alcohol, drugs, sexual relation ship and marriage. The "Art of Loving" discus sion will be held on Wednes days, starting March 2, at 4:30 p.m. in the Methodist Chapel and the "Nothing Suc ceeds Like Excess?" still has to be scheduled. New possibilities for future forms of worship, key issues of the Second Vatican Coun cil and the new character of Catholic moral thought are also topics of discussions which will be held. Jr 'S L (Ji i s j ' ,., ,,,,1 mr-min nmmmmrmt-ummmmmMMmmm Ai. -ii -i .- -' i -m-ft jmm -iliiiiiiiiiiiiKwitiMiiiiiriiiairiiiiiiiiiiii COL. BOWERS . . . welcomes Air R O.T.C. girl to class, from left, Misses Qoin nett, Jones and Brown. G-Day For ROTC? Mouths dropped open and every boy stared as the three girl6 walked into the class room and sat down. "'Uh, this is freshman ROTC," one helpful student ventured to say. Another student politely asked, "Are you guests to day?" the girls were not in the wrong room nor the w r o n g building. They are the first coeds in the history of the University to enroll in the ba far as he knew, the question had not arisen. "We have been wanting stu dent rights," Sen. Andy Taube said, "and now that we have some, we're trying to hide behind the Board of Regents cloak rather than face up to the responsibilities that rights bring. We should take our own responsibility for libel." Larry Frolick, vice presi dent of ASUN, that all the res olution does is shift responsi bility from the Committee on Student Affairs (which could be sued) to the Board of Re gents (which could not). "We are not hiding for we are still liable," he added. Sen. Kathy Weber asked whether individuals were lia ble for suit as senators or members of the student body. Frolick explained that it would depend on who was named. Sen. Skip Sorief suggested that ASUN have a lawyer come talk to them to clarify such questions and moved to table the request until such a time. His motion carried. Another motion proposed by Neumeister concerning the in vestigation of faculty commit tees relating to campus activi ty and of the criteria for the organization and continuation People-To-People: 'Diplomatic Force' By Randy Irey Junior Staff Writer "People to People could be called the third force in dip lomacy, along with the exist ing military and diplomatic activities." This is how Steve Corker, national director of the uni versity program of People-to-People, described the or ganization. He spoke before a meeting of People-to-People earlier this week. "P e o p 1 e-to-People was started by President Eisen hower in 1956 with the goal of personalizing existing in ternational activities. He hoped to strengthen existing overseas efforts, and in addi tion, internationalize the jobs of atheletes. hotel managers and other people, explained Corker . He said that the organiza tion is currently divided into several areas of activity. On the community level, it is primarily concerned with finding housing for foreigners traveling in this country. Another area, he said, is that of international travel, in which we are concerned with problems Americans encoun ter in traveling overseas." sic Air ROTC program. Bon nie Brown, Donnie Jones and Lois Quinnett are the only females in the class and in the department. The girls became interested in joining the basic program through Angel Flight, an aux iliary of the Arnold Air So ciety for men. "We thought it would be in teresting and a good way to learn more about the Air Force," Miss Quinnett said. They will take the same of campus organizations was passed. Neumeister explained that the ASUN Student Conduct committee was already inves tigating the question of stu dent rights and responsibility and that faculty committees having jurisdiction over such matters as the faculty-evaluation book ("where members hold vested interests" is actu ally "a subtle infringement on student rights." Baker asked why the sec ond part of the motion was necessary and why the con duct committee should take charge of the investigation. "What we're trying to find out is what rights does an or ganization have to do some thing or publish?" Neumeis ter explained. "Does an or ganization always have to run and ask permission?" He added that the commit tee could define the scope of liability toward faculty and eventuallv derive a solution to limit the liability toward faculty such as incorporat ing student government. "We can't divorce ourselves from the University," noted Sen. Terry Schaaf, "and so theremust be an investigation to see just who is going to be liable." The final area is the uni versity affairs department He said that this is his won area and that he works with and organizes international groups on campus. Accoriding to Corker, the goal of People-to-People on the campus is to develop one-to-one involvement between foreign and American stu dents in the university. They try "to avoid having students i s o 1 a t ed into their own groups." He pointed out the need for frankness in first talking with foreign students. "Once you learn to talk to the foreign student, then your fears and animositees become less dif ficult. You need to love peo ple so much that you go out and meet them, not leaving it up to them "It is an unfortunate, but an ironical truth , that we need an organization to do this, for it should be natural. But we are Americans, and we do not always take the first step toward friendship with unfamiliar people. To overcome this is the goal of the university People-toPeo-ple," Corker concluded. classroom work as the boys in ROTC They do not have to stand at attention, drill, or make salutations. Colonel William H. Bowers, professor of aerospace studies, explained that should the girls wish to join the Air Force after completing the basic program requirements they will have the same ad vantages as the men who are usually given a stripe as Air man Third Class. ASUN also passed a series of five proposals presented by Schaaf concerning foreign stu dent housing. They proposals were : that the ASUN ask the Foreign Student and Housing Offices to make use of the Public Issues Report, and the information obtained from other schools, in addition to any other information availa ble, in drawing up an infor mative, realistic pamphlet on the availability of housing and conditions in general at the University (for Foreign s t u dents). that the ASUN ask the University Housing Office to reserve a predetermined number of rooms (in the dorms) for international stu dents and that American stu dents be given an opportunity to express an interest in liv ing with these students. that the ASUN ask People-to-People or some other ap- propriate group of interested students to prepare a list of and make arrangements for temporary housing by Lincoln families for international stu dents upon their arrival at the University. that the ASUN, in light of the deplorable housing condi tions occupied by many Uni versity students, as the Uni versity for their active sup port in securing minimum housing standards for the city of Lincoln through contacting the City Council of the city of Lincoln by Chancellor Hardin of his representative. that the ASUN ask the City Council of the city of Lincoln to take immediate ac tion toward the establishment of minimum standards for rental housing in the city. The resolutions came as a result of a four-month study by the Public Issues commit tee, of which Schaaf is chair man. Schaaf presented the 15-page report illustrated with slides of existing foreign stu dent housing which pointed out the need for improvements in the housing of foreign stu dents. He pointed out that foreign students often received a less-than-desirable view of Ameri can life because of the p o o r housing and discrimination they were unprepared to face. SNCC To Support Gulf port Project At a meeting Tuesday of the Friends of the Students Nonviolent Coordinating Com mittee (SNCC), the group stated that it will continue this semester its basic proj ect of supporting Civil Rights work in Gulf port, Miss. Gene Pokorny, president of Friends of SNCC, said that the major project of Peggy King, a University graduate, and other workers in Gulf port for the next two months will be to Inform the Negro citi zens about medicare. A continuing project of the Gulfport workers is voter reg istration. Since President Johnson's War on Poverty started, the workers have been explaining to the people about the numerous program available to help them. The workers are also par ticipating in Operation Head start, the national program to provide preschool education to children from needy areas. Another project of the Gulf port workers if to form a credit union which will help the Negroes operate and work together to borrow money at the regular interest rates. Friends of SNCC sends monthly allocations to the Harrison County Freedom Democratic Party in Giilfport. Funds are raised through stu dent and faculty contribu tions. Friends of SNCC dollar days, a monthly project to so licit contributions, will be held in Dhe Nebraska Union, Feb. 16-18. Union 'Surfers9 Meet Thursday An orientation for students interested in the Nebraska Union surfing trip will be held Thursday at t p.m. in the Union. The surfing trip mill be a ten-day journey to Daytona Beach, Fit., during spring vacation, from Apr- 8 thsouch 17. '1 v.' ' v-,