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Jo Stohlman, editor
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With the coming campaigning for stu
dent government, candidates will be pub
licizing their platforms. We, too, feel that
our platform regarding our standpoint on
election procedures must be made known.
Our first objective will NOT be
"equal space for candidates." The Idea
that an objective and unprejudiced
press must give a candidate equal
space to his opponent is a fallacious
one.
Rather, the space "given" to each
candidate will be determined by the usual
judgments of news value: in this case,
what office the candidate is running for,
and most important WHAT the candidate
has to say.
We will not write three inches about
Candidate A and three inches about Can
didate B, when A speaks in vague, unde
termined generalities and B presents a
lucid, meaningful statement of his posi
tion. However, the Daily Nebraskan
staff will endeavor to contact and in
terview all those who file for office.
Again, capacity of space given to can
didates may be determined partially
by the number who file. Obviously, it
would be difficult for a reporter or two
to contact and interview 50 candidates
from each college.
If it becomes impossible to interview
every candidate for Senate (which we
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play in the future of col
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give some insight.)
University, Ala. (I.P.)
Computers may someday
help college students stay
in school, says a University
of Alabama professor.
Dr. Marvin A. Griffin of
the College of Engineering
believes computers could
summarize information on
dropouts and graduates.
This would revise testing,
counseling and guidance
programs and, in turn, up
grade today's approximate
loss of one-half the enter
ing freshmen before grad
uation. "A need exists for hard
facts concerning many
facets of the student body,"
By LIZ AITKEN
SDS may be old hat to
you but to me its a pain in
the neck. I am tired of hear
ing the group that call
themselves Students for a
Democratic Society used as
a whipping dog.
It doesn't really matter
what the topic is, if there is
any example that needs to
be given referring to some
thing that might be the
slightest bit anti-University
establishment the example
is always SDS. This is abso
lutely without exception and
t h e unoriginality of the
whole thing has begun to
gall me.
But after looking over the
situation a bit I think that
I've found the reason for
this Intense and often Ill
founded suspicion of SDS.
No one really knows what
the darn thing is.
The first story I can re
member seeing about the
organiration was something
about SDS's comments on
In loco parentis. Well, I
could hardly tell what t h e
Latin phrase meant (be
sides something about crazy
parents) let alone anything
about the organization that
was talking about it.
Then through Hyde Prk
I learned (along with a
good percentage of the rest
of the campus) what the
views were of Mr. Carl
Davidson, founder and then
president of SDS. But still I
knew very little about the
organization of SDS per ie.
Well, the fame of David-
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Dr. Griffin said, "and it is
unlikely they will ever be
available under the present
system."
Dr. Griffin recently com
pleted a study on engineer
ing enrollment for the
American Society for Engi
neering Education under a
grant from the National
Science Foundation. Work
ing with him on the project
was Dr. Fain A. Guthrie,
university professor of
counseling and guidance,
and John C. Seymour,
assistant professor of edu
cation in counseling and
guidance.
For the study, a 12-year
Eeriod of enrollment at the
fniversity was used. Tran
script information on enter
ing freshmen was placed
on magnetic tape and sum
marized by a digital com
puter. From this, a "flow
Lost Cool
son and SDS grew and
grew, but the information on
either was never directly
gathered, just sort of in
fused by osmosis from the
air around Hyde Park and
from the ink on the pages
of the Rag.
Now It Is not my Inten
tion of giving you the low
down on Mr. Carl David
son on your own. I would
like to give you an abbrevi
ated rundown of SDS pro
grams so you will know just
a little more about the or
ganization that everyone
names with a hiss.
This column is not coordi
nated with any membership
drive on the part of SDS. It
is not intended to try to win
you over to their way of
thinking. It is merely being
presented to try to tear
away some of the fears and
suspicions that have grown
up around it. You don't
have to agree wtih any of
the programs listed but as
you know, to fight effective
ly one must "know the foe."
After an interview with
Dan Ortiz, current president
of SDS, I was enlightened
on the following points.
The local chapter of SDS
is autonomous to the nation
al organization. The Lincoln
chapter is bound only by
name to the national and
can disagree on any and all
issues its members choose
not to back. The regional
group, the subject of sever
al recent Rag stories, is
purely an informal mal
unit and possesses no pow
er over SDS In Lincoln.
Past projects of Lincoln's
SDS have Included the Vict
Nam teach-In, the South
African teach-In, the down
town march and discrimi
nation test in Lincoln tav
erns. Not all these proj
ects were solely work of
SDS. The march Included a
r,,"",v pf pon-SD? mem
business manager
Wednesday, March 30, 1966
doubt should happen), then we can still
assure our readers that we will place
emphasis on those running for the execu
tive offices as we normally would.
As is the custom, the Daily Nebraskan
will support editorially some candidates
whom we feel to be especially qualified
those whom we believe to be the best per
son for the office. Our endorsement will
not be predicated on friendship or politi
cal hearsay, but rather on our opinion of
the person based on personal knowledge of
his abilities and past performance.
In sum, the Daily Nebraskan
will endeavor to make this campaign
as meaningful as the candidates make
it. By rights, it should be a meaning
ful campaign as there are many
questions at stake, regardless of any
candidates' platforms.
The most important of these ques
tions is what direction student government
will take in its second year under a new
constitution. The persons who are elected
will decide this direction.
There won't be another Neumeister,
or another Frolik. But there is no reason
why there cannot be persons elected who
can shape student government, though in
their personal way, to be as effective as
this year's has been.
And to you who are in the run
ning, we look forward to meeting you,
if we have not already, and to dis
cussing the issues. The door's open. . .
chart" was composed to
suggest the best method of
recording t h e collected
data.
The process begins with
a student's transcript fed
into the computer on mag
netic tape. If additional in
formation is added later, or
if new students enter
school, this can be added
through 11 various punched
data cards. The final sum
maries are stored on t h e
magnetic tape.
The end result, Dr Grif
fin believes, could encom
pass a wider field than that
which initiated the study. A
student's entire journey
through college could be
charted, his degree pro
gram individually planned
and re-planned, and com
puters could even estimate
the possibility of after-graduation
success.
bers and the test for dis
crimination was coopera
tlonal with SNCC.
Current and future pro
grams include a tutoring
program at Lincoln High
and several junior high
schools; a T-town project to
Inform Negroes of their
rights in the areas of c i t y
ordinances, federal loan
laws, federal housing ordi
nances and urban renewal
or Its equivalent; a Califor
nia Grape Strike film and
symposium; a film festival
consisting of films not gen
erally available which have
high cultural or social
worth; and a theatre proj
ect to be conducted at the
Malone Center exclusively
for high school students.
This last project will be
carried out by a group
whose majority will not be
SDS members but rather
drama students. SDS mem
bers will take part in a vot
er registration drive con
ducted in Denver and Jack
son, Miss., by the YWCA
and plans to use the experi
ence gained by these mem
bers to hold a voter regis
tration drive here in Lin
coln. A program also planned
for later in the year is a
poverty program that will
be associated with SDS's
program on civil rights but
elude Lincoln poor whites as
well as poor Negroes.
Well, there is a list of
completed and still-in-the-plannlng-stage
activities of
our local SDS. As Mr. Ortiz
pointed out, SDS functions
on a basis of spontlnalty and
the group adopts new pro
grams as they come along.
Take It for what you will.
My only point li that SDS is
not the boogey-man so
many people hold it to be.
looking at that list of proj
ects, It also looks like It will
be a spawning ground for
fvv t,"n? r' nativity nck.
Sorry
Being a compendium of farce, absurdity
and comment, selected arbitrarily by the
Editor . . .
Historical Note of the Day: In 1842,
Capt. Billy Rungley loots and sinks an en
tire fleet of French toast off the coast of
Northern Nebraska.
News from Hooker: "I'm not saying
all the girls on this campus are like this,
but a girl I saw today had calves so bad
it looked like her legs were upside down."
The Interfraternlty Pledge Council at
Iowa State is discussing a Model Pledge
Education Program. This is ridiculous.
Who ever heard of a model pledge?
Have ya noticed ... the Daily Nebras
kan has been without a sports editor for
about two weeks now. Jim Pearse was
forced to resign due to ill health.
Naturally, we are keeping up with our
traditional good relations with the Corn
husker staff. We've recruited one of their
managing editors, Kelley Baker, to fill in
as sports editor.
In the meantime, pur night news edi
tor, Jon Kerkhoff (who likes to get even
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Another Viewpoint
The
By Bill Grout
Colorado Dally
Scene: A Student Union
Loggia, a drafty hallway
with brick walls. In t h e
corners the miasma lurks,
in the form of TB germs,
Hacking Cough virus and
assorted sneezings. Along
the back wall are long
tables with chairs. Behind
the chairs are large bill
boards carrying advertise
ments for campus organiza
tions, the lettering of which
is BIG, so as to catch the
eye of the partly blind.
(For stage purposes, the
chairs can be manned by
dummies.)
Throughout the play, coffee-less
students enter from
the right and move slowly
across the stage to the left;
at the same time, stimu
lated students enter from
the left and shoot across to
the right. A poll-taker with
a clipboard enters from the
left and stations himself In
the midst of the traffic
downstage.
Poll: excuse me. (He
leans forward, balancing
on the balls of his feet and
catches a passing girl
under the nose with h 1 1
clipboard. She stops.)
Girl: (Straightening her
nose) Yes?
Poll: I'm taking a survey
and I'd like to get your
opinion on some things.
Girl: (Pressing her books
tighter against her chest
with her arms): Like what?
Poll: Well, we're trying
to pick up a few figures
and
Girl: (Stepping back):
What do you mean by that?
Poll: Nothlng-I mean,
yes, I do mean something.
Why are you stepping
back? What's wrong?
(Steps forward.)
Girl: (Trying to loolr
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Spring is sprung
The grass is rlz
Tonight I'll know
Where the MB's is.
Who'll be
Survey Season I
frightened): I'm sorry but
you'll have to find someone
else. (She goes out at
right.)
Poll: (Shrugs and steps
in front of boy wearing
levis and smoking a pipe):
Excuse me but I'm taking a
poll and
Boy: I can't understand
the question.
Poll: But I haven't asked
you anything yet
Boy: How do you expect
me to answer the question
if I can't even understand
it?
Poll: But
Boy: (Pointing pipe stem
at Poll) : You poll guys are
all the same. You ask a
question that can't even be
answered, and then put out
some ridiculous figures.
The whole thing's put up
it's a put up job, that's
what it is. You want opin
ion? Well, you got it. (Re
places pipe In his mouth,
puffs twice and goes out
left.)
Poll: (Drawing breath):
Excuse me. (A girl wearing
pink skirt and sweater
stops and then steps back,
surveying Poll.)
Girl: Hmmm?
Poll: I'd like to ask you
a few questions.
Girl: Oh, I'd like that.
Poll: Good. What do you
think about the
Girl: Were you at
Snookle's party Saturday?
Poll: No, I don't think so.
Girl: Take off your
glasses. (Poll removes hit
glasses, squints at g I r I.)
No, I guest not. Bye bye.
(Exit right.)
Poll: What the hell was
that? (He steps in front of a
tall blond girl. She doesn't
notice him, and they col
lide.) Excuse me, I'm try
ing to take a survey and
Clr1: (HoMi? thrr.-t rr.1
That!
with the editor in his JSK column) has
been filling in handily with the help of Bob
Flasnick, sports assistant, and other colum
nists. (Not to mention our business man
ager, who helps out with ads.)
We hear that one key candidate In line
for an executive office in student govern
ment has been planning his platform. Al
though the information hasn't been re
leased formally yet, it teems that he will
endorse Motherhood, no hours for men and
Santa Claus.
The University of Illinois is also ex
periencing student government election
time. Says the Daily Iliini:
"This year there are three candidates
running for Student Senate president. How
ever, the campaign promises to be no
more interesting than last year's. (It's)
shaping up to be another dull one."
All depends on your chances, I guess.
Sorry About That?
1
speaking In a rasping voice,
barely audible): I can't
talk. I've got laryngit
Poll: O.K. Forget It. For
get it. (He rips off the top
page in hit clipboard,
wads It up, looks around
for a place to throw it, then
puts it in his pantt pocket,
the bulge emb arrattet
him, to he trlet to smash
It down, but sees a girl eye
ing htm strangely and gives
up. He steps in front of a
boy In a blue tuit.) Ex
cuse me
Boy: You'll want to know
my name, right? Its Syl
verster Abercromble Har
rington Hurlzlngzewiski.
Poll: Forget It! Forget it!
Boy: You sure?
Poll: I'm sure! Go! (Boy
goes out left, repeating hii
name.)
Poll (Trembling): Excuse
me. (A boy w e a r i n g a
stretched-out mohair sweat
er stops.) I'm taking a sur
vey and I wondered if you
would please answer just
one simple question.
Boy: Shoot.
Poll: Really?
Boy: Yeah, go ahead.
Ask me.
Poll (Ecstatic) i Well,
we want to know what you
think about
Boy: Wait, don't tell me.
Let me guess. You want to
know what I think about the
toilet paper, right? (Poll
droops his head) No? Then
maybe you want to know
what my opinion is on the
birth control question,
right? No? Then what is it?
Poll (Letting his clipboard
fail to the floor): Nothing.
Just noting. I've forgotten
the question. I've Just for-rtf-n
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University Slipping Frightfully
Dear Editor,
As a student, attending "conservative" Nebraska U.,
I'm in search of a college education, a meaning to life,
and an appreciation for my fellow man. Like every stu
dent, I question and criticize but comply to student obli
gations: paying tuition, attending classes, and making
necessary grades. Now I rrestion two things: (1) Why are
professors leaving the university? (2) Are the students -unconcerned
about it? .
Some of the more noteworthy among the many in
structors leaving are, in the History Department alone,
Trask, Manley, Nugent, and Sakai; (Forde left last year,
but will anything be left of the History Department now?)
in the English Department, Shapiro; and in the Romance
Language Department, Esquenazi-Mayo. Certainly,- each
one of these men carries the reputation of their respective
department. But to remain an academic institution, ffiis
school must have a name besides a football team. What
will the reputation be when these men leave?
Are students concerned? Reading the stories of the
Daily Nebraskan, I find a jumble of student interest:
election of Miss Swine Queen, whether this or that organ
ization has the proper constitution or goals to function,
smoking in the library, bad food in the Union, and of course,
Viet Nam and racial discrimination. It's not my intention
to de-emphasize any issue, but why is such a fantastic
amount of time and energy wasted on such a potpourri
of issues?
We should keep in tune with the world's problems, but
can any one of us actually wave a magic wand or a
picket stick, as the case may be, and end the Viet Nam
war and racial discrimination in South Africa or elect Miss
Swine? Certainly a sound education is the basis for at
tacking any problem, but can we take for granted that our
educational system is helping us to meet these problems?
I like to think I'm a common student who hates 7:30's,
lectures in Love Auditorium, and Campell R. McConnell
on television. To pay $40.00 more next semester and to
meet my student obligations, I do not expect just a body
(or a tube) at 7:30 a.m. in Love Auditorium. If the above
instructors have found reason to leave, why should I stay?
Just what is it that this university lacks to keep these
men and others like them? Money? Library facilities?
State backing? Research grants? Opportunity to advance?
What?
Seemly, we as students take for granted that there
will be classes held, there will be instructors to lecture,
and there will be weekend capers. Next year, we will in
evitably be paying $40.00 more to have adequate instruc
tors (meeting status quo), while "conservative" Nebraska
spends half a million centennial dollars to beautify the state
capital. Isn't it a paradox?
We can rationalize with the sociological and political
problems of Nebraska, the rift between academic and ath
letic emphasis, or administrative failure; but as students,
if we continue to shunt our energy and time to question,
criticize, and demand solutions to the discriminating and
warring world, taking for granted our educational system,
we may find oruselves on a soapJbox, picket in hand, with
no institution of learning to develop and cultivate our ideals.
I find our institution, the University of Nebraska, slip
ping frightfully, and I am deeply concerned. Are you con
cerned? M. Thomas Malovoz
Warning To Candidates
Dear Editor,
Student Senate elections are fast approaching and stu
dents will be bombarded by "Mouveau" politicians who
proclaim their duty as protector of student interest. A main
issue of the campaign promises to concern the University's
financial crisis. But before our illustrious office seekers
try to lead us down the primrose path some facts should
be exposed.
Last Friday a ranking member of the United States
Senate Appropriations Committee visited campus as the
honored guest of ASUN at a coffee hour. Senator Roman
Hruska was interested in hearing about the University's
problems. He discussed the cuts President Johnson has
made in his 1966-67 budget for higher education and he
expressed his intention to work to have some of the allot
ments increased. This could have a direct bearing on the
University's financial situation.
The five persons associated with ASUN, as well as the
twelve interested students, who came to meet the senator
at this ASUN sponsored function are to be commended.
As for the others they deserve only pity and a word
of caution: Keep your campaign honest. "None pities him
thaft in the snare, who warned before, would not beware."
The Archangel
ASUN Is Commended
ASUN We salute you! ;
We would like to commend your action in confronting
the City Council in connection with housing for foreign stu
dents. We think it is a step in the right direction and ap
preciate your concern.
We are waiting to see the outcome, and are supporting
you, the ASUN.
Social Action Commission
Lutheran Student Center
NU Coed 'Wants Out'
Dear Editor,
I want out! At least on week-ends, anyway. Did you
ever stop to think how trapped NU coeds are? We're only
allowed to leave this campus six times a semester unless
we want to go home. It's not that I mind going home a
lot, but I live 300 miles away which is a little far.
I think it't time AWS stopped to realize that we live
n days of improved transportation, and many of us would
like to leave this city once in a while. The system of over
nights and out-of-towns they have set up is completely
outmoded. Wesleyan campus allows as many overnights
at you want, but just one per week-end. This seems
much more reasonable.
And at for out-of-towns, well, I used mine up the
first two months of school. Besides this only encourages In
fractions of the rules. Many girls on this campus have
homes in three different cities, plus many Lincoln
homes." Something should be done !
AWS has made a good start this year by allowing sen-
1.1. X?' and maybe if they keeP thls up we'U catdi Up
with other campuses. PLEASE?
Lelte
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