Tuesday, July 19, 1966
The Summer Nebraskan
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Psychic Physicists Practice I
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Tension mounts between competing
scientists in a scene from the rehearsal
of "The Physicists." Members of the
cast shown are: (from left) Zeff Bern
stein, Robert Hall and Steve Gaines. Re
hearsals are proceeding on schedule In
spite of the heat and pressures of study
which made some cast changes neces
sary. Stepping In to fill the vacant
roles are Dr. John Thurber and Dr.
Charles Gruncr, both members of the
speech department faculty. The two will
play the roles of strong-armed storm
troopers for the regular performance to
be given Aug. 1 and 2. (Photo by Don
Critchfield).
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Now comes a timely re
minder and a note of relief
after a sweltering week in
Lincoln:
Science and engineering re
search came to the rescue of
this afflicted community -short
.of water and-electrical
power.
Specifically, it came in the
form of the foresight of Lin
coln city officials who pro
vided research funds for Uni
versity of Nebraska engineers
who have developed an emer
gency water storage facility
for the city.
Head Off Emergency
For the past year, Ralph
R. Marlette, associate profes
sor of civil engineering at the
University, has been experi
menting with the storage of
huge quantities of water deep
underground to head off just
oc-
s u c h an emergency as
curred early last week.
The research payed off
when the city, faced with the
power failure, cut down the
booster pumps that brings 60
million gallons of water per
day (the approximate daily
consumption in Lincoln on hot
days) from the Ashland well
fields. City water officials be
gan immediately to pump wa
ter at a much reduced use of
electrical power from the An
telope creek wells which have
been recharged as a part of
the professor's research.
Marlette is working with a
$12,000 grant from the city to
recharge water into the Dako
ta Sandstone formation by
forcing water down 16 exist
ing city wells near the A
street pumping station. The
formation, believed to be shot
through with fissures, huge
Diesel Technology Class
Being Offered Next Year
The University of Nebras
ka Board of Regents has re
cently accepted a $21,627 con
tract with the U.S. Office
of Education to provide an
"industry approved two-year
post high school curriculum
in diesel technology."
M. G. McCreight, associate
p r o f e s sor of Agricultural
Education and University
consultant to the project said,
that the curriculum is to be
written by George 0. Ander
son, the former diesel depart
ment head at the Milford Vo
cational Technical School.
Consulting Committee
McCreight said that An
derson, who is widely known
in the field of diesel technol
ogy, is aided by a consulting
committee composed of man
ufacturing training directors,
service managers, diesel as
sociation representatives, and
other knowledgeable men
who represent 50 diesel or
ganizations now actively en
gaged in the field of diesel
technology.
Anderson, who is now re
tired from the Milford Voca
t i o n a 1 Technical School,
served as the diesel depart
ment head for 19 years and
has over 40 years experience
in heavy equipment.
At Milford
The project will be con
ducted by the department of
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ford. The project was originated
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pleted by Dec. 31, 1967.
cracks and caverns, may
have a total storage capacity
of 3.4 billion gallons, Mar
lette said.
Since June 24 the city has
used 150 million gallons from
the emergency storage area
according to Lee Blocker, act
ing director of public utilities.
Millions Stored
Marlette has found that ap
proximately four and one-half
million gallons per day can
be injected into the storage
area during times when Lin
coln's consumption of water
lessens to an average of 25
to 30 million gallons per day.
Approximately 15 million
gallons per day, in turn, can
be drawn out during times of
peak demand to supplement
the primary Ashland supply,
Blocker said.
90 Recovered
Professor Marlette ex
plained that his research
shows that approximately 90
percent of the water forced
into the sandstone formation
under Lincoln can be recov
ered. A part of the research is
directed at finding out how
much water can be removed
from the storage area with
out getting an objectionable
amount of salt. The Antelope
well supply, which before 1931
served as the major source
for Lincoln, is known to con
tain salt in rprtain areas npar
the Salt Creek valley.
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EDITOR'S NOTE: The fol
lowing article is a report on
the campus groups of S t u
dents for a Democratic Soci
ety (SDS). Its content should
give the summer readers an
explanation of the group's ac
tivities. The report was writ
ten by Barb Robertson, a
student in the Advanced Re
porting class in the School of
Journalism.
By Barb Robertson
"We're Happening All
Over, Baby!" proclaims a
banner at the University of
California. Student protesters
composing the New Left can
be found in ghettos, in dem
onstrations against American
foreign policy and on cam
puses, and they are growing.
Students for a Democratic
Society (SDS), the largest of
the student groups on the loft,
is the fastest growing. In Ap
ril, 1965, SDS had a total
membership of 900 in 32 chap
ters, but now they have about
5000 members in 135 college
chapters and 20 high school
chapters, according to Carl
Davidson, originator of SDS
at the University of Nebras
ka and former president.
3 Year Growtth
Who are these people, what
do thev stand for, and why
has SDS grown so in the past
three years?
Members of SDS are stu
dents ranging from drop-outs
to PhD's according to Andrew
Kopkind in "Of, By, and For
the Poor", appearing in t h e
June 19, 1965 issue of The New
Republic. He adds that they
are young (under 30) and
come from middle and profes
sional class families.
Hostile To Society
Davidson added that the
majority of students are hos
tile to society, reject the middle-class
system, and that 40
per cent are members of cam
pus Christain youth groups.
He is a graduate of P e n n
State and is a graduate stu
dent in philosophy at NU,
having taught a class in logic.
SDS stands for participatory
democracy and the only re
quirement for membership is
anti-totalitarianism beliefs.
Their policy committment,
voiced by the Port Huron
Statement issued at the found
ing of SDS in Port Huron,
Mich., in 1962 says, ". . . we
seek the establishment of a
democracy of individual par
ticipation governed by. two
central aims: that the indi
vidual share in those social
decisions determing the qual
ity and direction of his life;
that the society be organized
to encourage independence in
men and provide the media
for their common participa
tion . . ."
Individuals Robbed
"Individuals have been
robbed of their own authority
as decisionmakers and they
must take this back," said
Tom Hayden, 26, former pres
ident of SDS and currently an
organizer for the group's New
ark Community Union project.
The churches, the liberal
groups, the more traditional
civil rights organizations, he
said, "had bureaucratic struc
tures at the top, but were hoi-
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They are, he said, incapable
of necessary radical action
"because they are more re
sponsive to pressure from the
government than they are to
their own rank and file."
Basic Areas
The implementation of this
policy involves four basic
areas: civil rights, the Free
Speech Movement, war on
poverty and international
peace. Davidson said, "we be
lieve that these issues can't
be solved separately, which is
one reason why SDS is a multi-issue
group."
Although SDS got its start
in civil rights protest move
ments, by the end of 1965 its
membership was growing
swiftly as a result of the in
tensified focus against t h e
war in Viet Nam. In Washing
ton, on April 17, 1965, SDS
sponsored a march to protest
the war in Viet Nam. "We
hoped for 7000, but 25,000
showed up," Davidson said.
Kind of System
In front of the Washington
Monument, Paul Potter, 26,
then the president of SDS
asked, "What kind of system
is it that leaves millions upon
millions throughout the coun
try improverished and ex
cluded from the mainstream
and the promise of American
society, that creates faceless
and terrible bureaucracies in
which peoplle spend their
lives and do their work, that
consistently puts material val
ues before human values
and still persists in calling it
self fit to police the world?
"In a strange way the peo
ple of Viet Nam and the peo
ple on this demonstration are
united in much more than a
common concern that the war
be ended. In both countries
there are people struggling to
build a movement that has
the power to change their
condition. The system that
frustrates these movements
is the same. All our lives, our
destinies, our very hopes to
live, depend on our ability to
overcome that system.
Sky Shows
Museum officials at the Uni
versity of Nebraska have
scheduled another night show
ing of the current sky show,
"Nebraska Nights," for 8 p.m.
on Thursdays during July and
August.
The new sky show schedule:
Saturdays, Sundays, and holi
days: 2:30 and 3:45 p.m.;
Mondays, Tuesdays and Fri
days: 2:45 p.m.; Wednesdays
and Thursdays: 2:45 and 8
p.m.
Working for SDS are 70 full
time staff members 300 dur
ing the summer engaged in
creating an "interracial
movement of the poor," ac
cording to Nat Hentoll, Play
boy, March, 1966. In Newark,
N.J., the Newark Community
Union Project despite per
sistent opposition from the
mayor, the police and e v e n
some liberals who felt they
were being displaced h a s
succeeded in defeating an ur
ban renewal plan that would
have destroyed a viable Ne
gro neighborhood. Newark is
one of 17 community projects
sponsored by SDS.
Effective Pressures
It has also put effective
pressure on absentee land
lords in the ghetto to repair
thoir buildings, and It has
propelled some of its local
members into decision-making
positions in the council
distributing War-on-Poverty
funds, Hentoff said.
Hayden, in a debate on
"New Styles in Leftism
Round Two", the Village
Voice, May 13, 1965, said, "A
new o rganizational strength
is required from the millions
of poor people whose needs
are being neglected and sold
out . . . The only way to
achieve change is to organize
people and not bargain . . .
We must organize so that
people discover their own
wnrth and intppritv "
SDS and other members" of!
the New Left are not without
criticism; they have been
called communistic, a n t i
American, and unpatriotic. J.
Edgar Hoover, appearing be
fore the House Appropriations
subcommittee in March 1965,
says of the student revolt at
the University of California
the previous fall: "A few
hundred students contain
within their ranks a handful
of Communists that mislead,
confuse and bewilder a great
many students to their detri
ment. Communist Party lead
ers feel that based on what
happened on the campus of
the University of California
at Berkeley, they can exploit
similar student demonstra
tions to their own benefit in
the future."
Wild Expectations
Adding to the chorus is Dr.
Stefan Possony, Director , of
International Studies at t h e
Hoover Institute, Stanford
University.. In May .1965 he
warned the Senate Internal
Security subcommittee t h a t
"the radicalization of Ameri
can youth is proceeding be
yond the wildest expectation's
of the Communists."
According to Hentoff, SDS,
SNCC, and the Northern Stu
dent Movement resent the im
plication that they can be
successfully infiltrated. Since
they practice total inner de
mocracy and have no patience
with pat ideologies, whether
Soviet or Chinese, they are
confident and can protect
themselves.
Direct Action
"Look," says C. Clark Kis
singer, a 24-year-old graduate
of the University of Chicago
and now a full-time strategist
for SDS, "we began by re
jecting the old sectarian Left
and its ancient quarrels. We
are interested in direct action
and specific issues. We do
not spend endless hours de
bating the nature of Soviet
Russia."
In agreement with Kissing
er is Bill Strickland, a mag
na cum laude graduate of
Harvard, and the director of
the Northern Student Move
ment. He says, "We're n o t
interested in a guy's mem
orizing Trotsky's theory of
permanent revolution or Is
some Stalinist with a line.
We're interested in creating
new forms and new institu
tions." Charges Answered
Davidson, now secretary
treasurer of SDS at the Uni
versity of N e b r a s k a, an
swered the charges that SDS
is anti-American and unpatri
otic in a letter to The Daily
Nebraskan, Monday, March
21. 1965. It said in part: ". . .
there are two kinds of patrio
tism. One kind says, My
country, right or wrong.' In
addition to being the last
refuge of the scoundrel, it is
the first refuge of totalitarian
ism and moral irresponsibil
ity.
"The second kind . . . de
mands that we understand
what the values of the coun
try, not the present adminis
tration, are. And it demands
that we analyze whether the
present administration is hon
estly and consistently carry
ing out those values."
Struggle To Change
"And if we find that t h e
administration Is not carrying
out those values, then, this
kind of patriotism demands
that we must struggle to
change the course of the ad
ministration." Davidson also mentions in
the letter some of the work
of SDS members, such as
work in Africa through t h e
Peace Corps, and their volun
teering to go unarmed to Viet
Nam to "build for a democ
racy rather than burn a Sai
gon bandit."
Teach-ins
According to Davidson,
SDS at Nebraska has s p o n
sorcl two teach-ins, one on
Viet Nam, and one on apar
theid in the Republic of South
Africa; they are conducting a
study of campus rules and a
look at unionization of Univer
sity employees.
there are 35 members of
SDS at the University of Ne
braska, according to David
son, but he added that many
more work for and with SDS.
"We are not interested in
building up numbers," David
son said.
Graduation Scheduled
Formal graduation exer
cises will be held Friday eve
ning, Aug. 5, announced Mrs.
Shirley Williams, Registration
office.
Graduation ceremonies will
begin at 7:30 in the Pershing
Municipal Auditorium. Fur
ther information about the
exercises will be given at a
later date.
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