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The Daily Nebraskan was paid a vis
it yesterday by three prominent Univer
sity administrators Chancellor Clifford
Hardin, Vice Chancellor Joseph Soshnik
and Vice Chancellor A. C. Breckenridge.
They came to summarize and clarify
a meeting of University administrators
and college deans which was called to
discuss the budgetary procedures and en
rollment estimations for the future.
The meeting was closed to t h e
press. The reason why it was closed,
according to Hardin, was because
"they have always been closed, and
we think some of the deans might be
afraid of being quoted."
So the Daily Nebraskan senior staff
got a "summary" of the meeting from
these three administrators, instead of a
close-up view of a discussion which will
undoubtedly affect the University's future
a great deal.
It is indeed sad that a meeting of
such importance should be closed so
that the press should get only second
hand remarks as to what occurred.
The fact that these meetings are
clothed in secrecy can only make a
college editor suspicious that if what
really went on, and what really was
said, was what was reported after it
was all over.
But what Hardin, Soshnik and Breck
enridge did relate to us in the Daily
Nebraskan office does have a great deal
of significance for the University.
First, Hardin said that a "supplemen
tal appropriation from the Legislature in
January seems to be the way" a half
million dollar (or more) deficit will be
met. Thus, barring further complications,
students should not have to pay addi
tional tuition next year.
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I Drinking on Campuses
Kingston, R.I. (LP.)
A national survey of regu
lations governing the con
trol of alcoholic beverages
on state college and uni
versity campuses has dis
closed that 85 per cent of
the institutions contacted in
48 states "categorically pro
hibit drinking on campus by
undergraduate students," a
University of Rhode Island
cently.
After determining that 53
out of 62 state colleges and
universities prohibit under
graduate drinking on cam
pus. Dr. John F. Quinn, vice
president for student af
fairs, said "I have discussed
By WAYNE KREUSCHER
News Editor
ASUN, at least in many
peoples' minds, has threat
ened the traditional power
of the Innocents and Mor
tar Boards all year long.
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which one really is the
most important or powerful
in the students' minds
which one are people talk
ing about the most?
Who are people the most
interested in the new-to-be
Innocents and Mortar
Boards or the new execu
tives and senators of ASUN?
Which will people spend
the most time with the
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bers of my staff and we see
no reason for recommend
ing any change at URL"
The investigation was un
dertaken at the request of
Dr. Francis H. Horn, URI
president, after students re
quested a change of present
policy which bans the use
or possession of intoxicat
ing beverages anywhere on
campus, including fraterni
ties and sororities.
" Dr. Quinn characterized
the URI policy as "the pre
valent one across the coun
try" and explained that his
evaluation was based not
only on answers to a one-
honoraries in the paper or
the explanation of how the
University with ASUX's
prodding is going to solve
its money difficulties next
year?
In power perhaps being
a little idealistic I would
have sworn all year long
that the headlines proved
that ASUN had become the
most important or soon
would be.
It was no longer the presi
dent of Innocents who Hard
in called to his office for a
discussion about the school,
but the president and other
executives and leaders of
ASUN.
But now as the real truth
of the matter comes to a
front it seems that the Inn
ocents and Mortar Boards
are still on top.
How many hours do peo
ple really waste a day mak
ing their lists of the for sure,
of the possible and of the
long shot Innocents and
Mortar Boards?
How many juniors (and
sophomores planning in ad
vance) sit up at night figur
ing which hooded or
masked character is his
friend? How the politics will
fall? Who will compromise
with whom?
Even with those students
not particularly interested
in campus affairs, politics,
government or status the
senior honorary question
takes up at least a portion
of their thoughts.
The average fraternity
and dorm member, who
might not know anyone out
side of his own living unit,
figures the chance of that
one member in his residence
who might be in. Usually
business managei
Friday, April 1, 1966
Second, Hardin related that 17,200 is
the "working figure" for an estimate of
next fall's enrollment. This figure was
arrived at to avoid criticism of "obvious
padding" in budget requests, Soshnik said.
The administrator also said that
this figure is the figure "for wich we
can commit our resources without a
hazard of overestimating." And Sosh
nik added, "This is not suggesting that
we won't have 18,000 students next
fall."
With the "imponderables" such as
how many students will be coming on the
new GI Bill, how many students will come
from other colleges with rising tuitions,
what the draft quotas will be, etc., the
figure could go higher. But the Univer
sity should be able to accommodate at
least the 17,200 "working figure" without
too much last minute preparation.
Last, Hardin said, "We are gues
sing that the average class size won't
be raised." We can only hope that
Hardin's "guess" proves correct. In
some classes, such as large lec
ture sections, an additional 50 or 100
students might not make much differ
ence in the quality of instructin. But
it well might, in an English class of
20 where class discussion is an im
portant aspect of the learning process.
Although we do not agree with nor
condone some of the past actions of these
administrators, we thank them for paying
us the office visit yesterday.
We would hope the similar con
ferences will not be necessitated by
the fact that the original meeting was
closed.
Jo Stohlman
page questionnaire, but also
as a result of the examina
tion of catalogs and student
handbooks which were ob
tained from virtually all 62
institutions. "
Some institutions "permit
drinking by married and-or
graduate students, particu
larly when housed separate
ly in their own areas," Dr.
Quinn said.
According to the survey,
one administrator said, "We
hear very little from grad
uate students. I presume
this is because so few of
them live on campus and
secondly, they must be solv
ing the problem quietly
and surreptitiously by them
selves." it's discussed behind his
back and often the resi
dence is quite unrealistic,
but everyone takes part.
Even the unaffiliated Lin
coln student, who usually
doesn't care a darn about
most things, has a chart on
the possible winners from
his school.
In time, thought and in
terest the senior honoaries
definitely seem on top. And
this really isn't bad because
it is fun, natural and for
some a kind of payment or
incentive for hard work.
But somehow and this
line may sound almost like
a cliche it seems wrong
that people can spend so
much time talking about
tackling of 13 people and a
masking of who knows how
many.
It seems like a mistake
that few people understand
or discuss the University'!
financial, growing and facul
ty problems, but can tell
one exactly who has a
chance and who does- 't.
The senior honoraries pro
vide a very special and
significant award. They are
important It is an honor to
belong.
But really, whoever the
new executives and sena
tors of ASUN will be, their
philosophy of government,
their ideas, their initiative
and what they plan on doing
with the students as an
interest group are a great
deal more vital to the Uni
versity and its students than
who will be chosen and who
will be left out on Ivy Day.
The senior honoraries are
an undemocratic award, but
the ASUN official! can be
much more.
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Italy Alaric the Visigoth subcontracts the
conquest of Rome, in 1966 student lead
ers subcontract the conquest of the University.
About This Time
Roses are red
Dandelions are better
I wonder who
Didn't get a letter.
News from Hooker: "Information bul
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By Larry Finley
" Daily'lllini
"Take it off. Take it ALL
off." The Nordic blond coos
as the shaver zips a razor
across his face to the tune
of "The Stripper."
"That's advertising.
The Dodge Girl invites
you to joining the Dodge
Rebellion while waving a
very symbolic gun. or
sword, or file or (God for
bid) a telescope. Freud rolls
in his grave; people buy
Dodges.
That's advertising, too.
"Playboy" and bunny
huckster Heffner build an
empire on the drawing pow
er of the unclothed female
body.
That's free enterprise.
You're promised that you
will become a modern-day
Don Juan simply by slap
ping on "Blah" hair grease
or by drinking "Burp" co
la. More free enterprise.
All good clean, legal
Americana.
What isn't?
Ralph Ginzburg isn't.
Ginzburgh is an iconoclas
tic, colorful, taboo-breaker
who published the short
lived, hard-cover magazine
Eros. Also on his list of
publications is the still-living
magazine Fact, the
magazine that asked hun
dreds of American psycho
logists to evaluate the men
tal stability of Barry Gold-whats-his-name.
Most of
them said he wasn't.) It al
so slashed away at the sex
life of priests, police bru
tality and kimos in prison.
About
Mind Readers
As you can see, Ginzburg
is no light weight. But Eros
went a little too far.
A 5-4 Supreme Court deci
sion upheld a decision that
Eros was obscene, putting
the skids on the man who
hoped to publish a maga
zine devoted to physical
love.
The decision, in effect,
rules that Eros was without
out redeeming social im
portance, a catch-phrase
which has let such lily-white
literature as "Lady Chatter
ly" off the hook.
With their decision the
high judges have ruled out
a magazine which was
hailed by art and magazine
critics as a milestone in
publishing. At the first trial,
psychologists, critics and
theologians testified that it
was not obscene.
The judge and it was, and
Ginzburg w as smacked with
a five-year sentence and
$28,000 fine. Under the anti
quated law, the fine could
have been as much as $90
million and 90 million years
for the nine million pieces
of literature sent out con
cerning Eros.
But they were lenient.
Even more ironic is the
fact that much of the ma
terial contained in Eros was
the works of classical au
thor! and artists who cre
ated pieces which can be in
terpreted as appealing to
"purient" interests. Their
works are not obscene be
cause they have social
value; Eros is obscene be
cause it makes no pretense
at what it major appeal is,
or w as.
That!
letins concerning the draft deferment ex
amination are available at the Adminis
tration building. Test shouldn't be t o o
difficult, for example sample questions:
1. If you have an apple in one hand,
and a grape in the other hand, how many
hands do you have
2. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey is a pussy
cat. True or false
Anyone who has completed Math 10
(algebra and trigonometry for retarded
children) should do well.
P.S. If, as Ronald Reagan said, Cal
ifornians sleep better each night knowing
Carl Curtis is in the Senate, why do Ne
braskans have to take Sominex and
Nightol
Yesterday we missed an obvious his
torical note of the day. It was Peter, Pe
ter, Pumpkin Eater's birthday. Sorry
About That!
The past decade has seen
a crumbling away of the
Victorian censorship laws
which have held a strangl
ing grip on literature and
art.
Ginzburg is a salesman. A
salesman who was capitaliz
ing on one of the most sal
able items available. His
crime was that he tried to
give sex respectability. He
tried to mix art with a sub
ject that is traditionally
treated with snickers or
leers.
The most frightening as
pect of the Supreme Court
decision comes in the state
ment that such magazines
should be banned because
they were designed with
salacious appeal.
With such a precident set,
who is to say what is in the
minds of the creators of a
magazine, book or movie?
The courts w ill.
A work is not obscene now
because it is obscene by its
very nature; it is obscene
because the court interprets
the intentions of the creator
as obscene.
If the creator of the Venus
de Milo was a dirty old man
at heart, then the Venus is
obscene.
If the authors of the Old
Testament were snickering
when they wrote about Sod
om, Onan, Lot, Solomon,
David and Adam; then the
Bible is obscene.
I await the decision of the
two Judges o"i the Bible.
Until then, I'm going to
stock up on them, Just in
case.
McSpadden Disjointed Logic
Dear Editor,
The letter "Viet Nam Policy Protested" by Rev.
Bruce K. McSpadden on the first day of spring betrayed
its title. It turned out to be a defense and rationalization
of his own position rather than a protest and showed a
very disjointed logic.
According to McSpadden, the U.S. should ease up in
Viet Nam because we are following a perverted Ameri
can policy. But American policy is not the object in Viet
Nam. The goal is the "freedom of people to determine
their own destiny." The United States of America does
not have a patent or franchise on "those American values
we all hold." And McSpadden is selfish to think that a
coalition will meet the South Vietnamese desires for
freedom.
I don't think the Most Reverend Bruce K. McSpad
den is qualified to compromise someone else's life. That
would be the same mistake our country made a century
ago when we constitutionally guaranteed the Negro civil
liberties but compromised them to social subjugation.
McSpadden in effect says we must recognize the Viet
Cong as a party of the people, for the people and by the
people. He further believes that the Viet Cong should not
be considered pawns of North Viet Nam. Their relevance
to McSpadden of the North Viet Nam 36th, 38th and 39th
Regiments on sovereign South Viet Nam soil indicates
that he is not only selfish, but blind.
We must "turn back to true 'Americanism' through
the seeking of peace" McSpadden said. He states that we
must realize the tin god of American government is falli
ble. But should we get peace by sacrificing or compro
mising another country's freedom to the gods of safety and
security.
While diluting South Viet Nam's freedom to oriental
tea, McSpadden, with the missionary zeal of Paul, would
be willing to protest and march to stop "this perversion
of the 'American' way" in the U.S. McSpadden evidently
doesn't realize that the values the Negroes hold in our
city are the same as those .of the Vietnamese. These
values are above nationalities, boundaries and political
organization. They are not the kind of ideals you can
forget in distant lands and fight for in your own back
yard. It frightens me that a man showing such naivete
holds an important position and influences the minds of
my fellow classmates.
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Students' Regress
By STEVE ABBOTT
Note: We were speculating the other day what would
have been the result if a contemporary University stu
dent had written Pilgrim's Progress. Maybe some people
don't believe in progress at all anymore but if they did,
they might restate the classic in these terms: Students'
Regress by Bunyan John.
When I took up my typewriter in hand '
Thus for to type, I did not understand
that in deposing metaphors of height
one might be shoveled under some great Blight
(i.e.in loco parentis.)
As I walked through the wilderness of Doctrines, I
lighted on an uncertain place called University (i.e.
Sloth of Despond) and what do you suppose I did but
dream a big Dream: Behold, there was a portly gentle
man draped in a blue tent playing a game of Chicken
Little. I went up to him and asked him what was ' the
Matter.
He replied: "As I was trying to make these children
go through the narrow wicket Gate, a piece of it fell on
my head. The University is falling in. I fear it."
"That must be a great Grief to you," said I, for I
was fond of talking to characters in my Dreams, "ta
have such a burden to carry on your Brain (this referred
to the section of wicket gate which had fallen over his
head in such a manner that it covered his eyes like a
basket), "But tell me, why are you squeezing all those
children through the one narrow wicket gate when there
are a row of gates here through which they might enter"
"Oh, but the other gates are roads to Perdition whereas
this curriculum gate I have set up (be pointed to the sec
tion of his head) leads to the straight and narrow."
"You sound like an Administrator."
With those words the dignified gentleman beamed
and offered to lead me toward Englightenment through
his Establishment.
We first came to a man scooping mud off a dirt
Road. "What are you about" said my portly escort,
anxious to protect me from discourse with a sluggard.
"Whadaya tffink, blueboy" replied the sluggard re
sentfully. "With great Industry and Perseverance I am
digging a hole so I can jump into it."
I looked in the hole and there, sure enough, were
Industry and Perseverance digging away as if their
meaning was entirely in effort.
"But what is that chain binding them together,"
I asked. "Ah, that is the chain of their Phi Beta Kap
pa key" said sluggard.
Then
I beheld a sleeper
I beheld a sleeper
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Motive. He s been in a deep sleep ever since he heard about
our involvement in Africa and Viet Nam.
Meanwhile Sluggard had accidentally tossed a shovel
ful of dirt in my guide's face and we were anxious to
move on.
Nest, while we were talking, we saw a Dwarf playing
a guitar. He was strangly swathed in mittens of red
least ' and his song was hampered to say the
"What is this" I asked.
Dwarf replied, "In our land there are two kinds of
folksongs-Tbose of Engagement and those of disengage
ment. Mother asks that we wear Mittens during songs of En
gagemcnt to keep our hands clean. Last week I lost my mit.
tens when visiting the mud scoopers and mother said that I
could have no pie until I found them "
("Those naughty Kittens!") muttered my compan-
ion.
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mJf'L!r!;ljll.SOrxhard as with song of Disengage
ment, replied the Dwarf. "Mother says we are to keep
our hands m pur pockets during those songs."
I regretted not having time to meet Mother, but ceuld
?k L d be slation of Ethics. Further, I saw
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Heaven as well as from the City of Destruction,
OPINION
Glenn Friendt Jr.
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