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Friday, September 30, 1966
The Daily Nebraskan
Vol. 90, No. 11
A SLIP OF THE WRIST .
for one of these two sorority pledges practicing the "egg
drop" for Sigma Chi Derby Day Saturday. Moments
after the picture was snapped, the girl on the floor had
her worst fears confirmed, and the egg splattered
across her face.
Derby Day Approaches
Derby Day has unofficially begun, according to the
Sigma Chi's. Although the annual event is scheduled for
Saturday morning, most sorority pledge classes are al
ready competing for the Spirit Trophy.
Sorority pledges and actives have serenaded the Sig
ma Chi's several nights this week, said Steve Reed, a
freshman pledge. One group stole a Sigma Chi active, but
were forced to trade him for fbur of their Own members
who had been captured by the Sigma Chi's.
"I think it's great and I hope it keeps up," commented
Joel Hagen on the girl's enthusiasm. He added that two
houses have been calling the Sigma Chi house on the hour
with a "cute little jingle about how they are going to win
Derby Day."
Nine pledges who will not be able to participate in
Derby Day because of classes served at the Sigma Chi
house Wednesday evening. Dressed in white jackets, they
set the tables, served the meal and cleaned up under the
supervision of the regular bus-boys.
"It was really lots of fun," said one enthusiastic
pledge. The boys seemed to enjoy it more than we had
expected, she added. All Sigma Chi's wear their tradition
al black derbies the week before Derby Day. According
to Reed, several pledges and even some fraternity mem
bers have unsuccessfully tried to take the derbies.
Three sororities have put up signs on the outside and
inside of the Sigma Chi house, Reed said. Lapel tags
promoting spirit for Derby Day are being worn by
members of several sororities.
IDCC Receives Part
Of Dormitory Budget
Changes in a constitution
for a proposed interddrm
council were basically clarifi
cations made by the Inter
dorm Coordinating Commit
tee (IDCC).
A committee will review
the changes before the next
IDCC meeting. When the con
stitution receives final con
sensus from IDCC represen
tatives, it will be submitted
to dormitory residents for
their approval.
The clarifications made in
the constitution call for a
possible appendage for pro
visional government. Under
ers will serve their terms un
til the next election second
semester.
Membership will be divided
into non-voting (residences
that do not approve the con
stitution) and voting (fully
accredited members).
Also at the meeting IDCC
chairman Jim Ludwig sug
gested that one per cent of
the dormitory budgets be al
located to the IDCC. Social
functions will be handled from
separate funds, he said.
Ted Suhr of Selleck made
a motion that one per cent
of each dorm's budget be al
located to the IDCC fund.
Celia Potter of Love Me
morial moved that the motion
be amended to read one per
cent of the budget or five
cents per person. The motion
was carried.
Ludwig reported that Mary
Ann Deems, Cornhusker edi
tor, spoke to the Cather ex
ecutives Tuesday. She in
formed them that there will
be no group pictures of
dorm residents in the year
book but the dorms can pre
sent suggestions for layouts.
A committee meeting for a
leadership workshop for ball
officers was scheduled for
Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Gather
Pound conference room.
IDCC social chairman,
John Decker, announced that
Cather, will sponsor a danca
Oct. 8.
. . means egg in the face
Miss Potter suggested that
Nettleton Manor, the off-campus
housing for women stu
dents at the Lincoln School of
Commerce, be included in the
IDCC as a residence hall.
Nigerian Civil Servant Is
FTP Student Of Month
People to People has se
lected Victor Umunna of Ni
geria as the foreign student
of the month.
Umunna is in his second
year at the University and is
majoring in animal science.
He has one year to complete
before receiving his B.A. de
gree. Before he came to the Uni
versity, Umunna was a civil
servant for the Nigerian gov
ernment. He taught in the
Veterinary College in Nigeria
for two and a half years.
Umunna attended second
ary school for five years and
the Veterinary College for
three years before coming to
the University of Nebraska.
When he returns to Nigeria,
Umunna will work five years
for the government. He said
that he will "likely go to the
Veterinary College to teach
or work on a livestock farm
belonging to the government."
Umunna said that he had
a two-week orientation pro
gram before coming to the
United States. But he noted,
that everything In America
was not like he was told it
was going to be.
One example that he has
noticed is that not all Ameri
cans are as good and as
friendly as he was told they
would be.
However, he said "this is
found to be true all over ihe
world and is not exclusive to
the United States."
"Nebraskans are not as In
quisitive as people from oth
er states," said Umunna. He
said that when he was in
Washington, people would
Free Speech Forum ... stf "
Hyde Park Speakers Discuss
After a sporadic start,
Thursday's Hyde Park forum
picked up speed as speakers
arose from the audience to
state their views on such
things as selective service,
men's fashions, student bill
of rights and apathy.
This was the first of the
weekly Free Speech forums
of the year, sponsored by the
Nebraska Union Talks and
Topics Committee.
One of the first speakers
was Larry Grossman who
spoke mainly on the concept
of a student bill of rights,
and especially listed some of
the tenets of the Campus
Freedom Democratic Party's
(CFDP) bill of rights.
"Students ought to have the
final say in anything outside
the classroom and we should
be free of double jeopardy,"
stated Grossman.
Copy Of Code
Rick Mann criticized Uni
versity Administraiton say
ing that it has never stated
specifically "what a student
can or cannot do."
He told of being called be
fore a dean last year for
"committing an offense
against the University code
of behavior." Mann said that
he then asked the dean for
a copy of the code and was
told that it did not exist.
Court To Decide
On Apportionment
Student Court will announce
its decision next Monday or
Tuesday concerning the prob
lem of whether or not the
reapportionment carried out
by the electoral commission
last spring was constitution
al. Thursday night the court
heard the arguments of Da
vid Senseney, representing
himself as plaintiff and Lar
ry Greenwald, representing
Bill Tooley, the defendant.
In a suit filed last spring,
Senseney, a student Senator
from Professional College,
claimed that Tooley, also a
Professional College senator,
had received a Senate seat
unconstitutionally.
The reasons which Sensen
ey used Thursday, to support
his statement were that the
reapportionment wasn't di
rectly proportional as pro
vided by the ASUN constitu
tion and that it had not
been carried out before the
come up to him and ask him
where he was from, but in
Nebraska, although the people
would like to know the same
thing, they would not speak
to him voluntarily.
He said that he likes "soc
cer, tennis, football, and
girls."
He would like to play for
the Cornhusker football team
as a kicker because he said
that he could kick a soccer
ball 90 yards and he noted
that a football is much
smaller than a soccer ball.
Joel Swanson, president of
People to People, said that
the student of the month. pre
sentation is not an award, but
is given to a wide range of
students from all over the
world.
He said that the presenta
tion is usually given to a for
eign student with an "out
going" personality and is in
tended to further the relations
of foreign students and the
American people.
NDEA System Changed
The Office of Education has
changed the system of pay
ing National Defense Educa
tion Act (NDEA) Title IV
fellows, according to James
C. Olson, Dean of Graduate
Affairs at the University.
Title IV refers to graduate
students on NDEA fellow
ships. Previously, stated Ol
son, checks were sent direct
ly from the Office of Edu
cation to the student. As of
September 1966, however, the
Another speaker who spoke
at length in favor of the stu
dent bill of rights was asked
if he thought it could be
passed this year.
"If the students want a fettl
of rights then it has every
chance in the world of being
passed, but it depends upon
every student educating him
self as to the facts involved.
I'm optimistic and think it
will be passed," the speaker
replied.
When asked about the re
sponsibilities that go a 1 o n g
with rights, the speaker an
swered that as students and
citizens, everyone has the
responsibility and the right to
educate themselves as well as
make their own mistakes.
The speaker then stated that
the Administration was too
paternalistic, while not even
being a good father.
Ship Of Fools
Associated Women Students
(AWS) and women's rights
received attention from Mann
as he said that "women
should have a' say-so in mak
ing the rules they have to live
by the rules should not be
made by some king or ship
of fools."
Mann stated that all Uni
versity students are governed
by the same rules except
women. The women, he said,
April 1 deadline, as speci
fied in the constitution
Senseney charged that it,
was not proportional because
the three vacant seats within
the Graduate College, from
which reapportionment was
made, should have been filled
in the manner carried out by
the Student Senate.
"The action of the elector
al commission was not justi
fied because it was unconsti
tutional and there was an in
terest in the graduate college,
as shown by the number of
write-in candidates on the
ballots," Senseney declared.
Greenwald's arguments for
the defense seemed to hinge
on the fact, as he claimed,
that since there were not
enough Graduate College stu
dents that ran and that there
would therefore be vacant
seats on the Senate, this prob
lem fell beyond the provisions
of the constitution, concerning
how to handle the problem.
He argued that when the
electoral commission realized
that there would be a short
age of candidates to fill the
Graduate College seats, the
commissioner, Carol Bischoff,
went to the presiding officers
of ASUN.
At this time, he continued,
it was decided to remedy the
problem by legislation. The
motion passed by ASUN
stated, in effect, that, if there
were not enough applicants to
fill the vacant seats within
a college, that the seats
would be apportioned to the
original apportionment.
Senseney presented as evi
dence a Daily Nebraskan
story, dated May 4, stating
that three seats were filled
on the Senate following a
meeting "last Monday." This,
stated Senseney, showed that
the reapportionment was not
carried out before Apr. 1.
Greenwald called ASUN
President Terry Schaaf to
the stand. When questioned
concerning Senate action,
Schaaf said that on March
23, minutes show the senate
passed a resolution providing
for reapportionment of t h e
seats in case not all were
filled.
University will pay the stu
dents along guidelines set up
by the Office of Education.
The change of entitlement
means that instead of receiv
ing money semesterly, stu
dents will be paid at the end
of each month, receiving nine
payments with a double pay
ment in May, according to
Olson.
"Once the students are able
to make the adjustment to
the new system, it will work
out well," stated Olson.
are under a completely dif
ferent set of regulations.
Defending himself and his
actions against the epithet of
"apathetic", Al Barton spoke
to the crowd about diversity
of interest.
Barton stated that he be
lieves there is no such thing
as apathy, merely a diver
sity of interests.
Apathetic
"Just because I don't wave
a flag or join an activity,
why should I be termed "ap
athetic," Barton asked.
"I came to the University
to get an education others
may be here for other rea
sons. My idea is not to im
prove the Administration, but
to improve my mind," he
stated.
Barton noted that he was
not "making fun" of the cam
pus politicians, Greeks, or
radicals, but that he resented
being called apathetic mere
ly because his areas of in
terest in the University d i d
not coincide with these fac
tions' interesst.
A suggestion to end the
University's budget problem
was proposed by another
speaker. Stating the reason
that so much money must be
put into dormitories and new
classrooms was because of
the large freshmen enroll
ment, the speaker proposed
that an entrance examination
be instituted to eliminate so
many freshmen, half of whom
would drop out in a year any
way. Memorize The Teacher
In agreement with a letter
printed in the Daily Nebras
kan, Doyle Niemann stated
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RICHARD MANN
Liaison Committee Plans
Opinion Poll, Senate File
The exact role and direc
tion that the ASUN Legisla
tive Liaison and Research
Committee will take in voic
ing the student's opinion on
the proposed University budg
et is being formulated.
Curt Bromm, chairman of
the committee, stated that
much studying and research
has already gone into formu
lating the role of the commit
tee. At a committee meeting,
Thursday afternoon, Bromm
and his two co-chairmen,
Marv Almy and Phil Bowen,
presented their ideas and
projects.
Summary Report
"In order to talk to t h e
legislators, we must be ac
quainted with the budget re
quest and why it is needed,"
Bromm explained. "There
fore a summary report of the
budget has been prepared and
copies will be available to the
committee."
In addition, information has
already been gathered, ac
cording to Bromm, through
talking to Chancellor Clifford
Hardin, Vice-chancellor Jo
seph Soshnik, and John
Quigley, physical analyst for
the legislature.
"We plan to talk to Dr.
Mark Hobson of the Gradu
ate College," Bromm stated,
"lie is coordinating the fac
ulty efforts towards getting
the budget passed."
that a student should not
have to go to class to hear
a professor read a book.
"Often, the criteria for a
grade is how well you mem
orize the teacher," Niemann
said.
Niemann opined that a
teacher should be hired part
ly on his record and his rep
utation with his colleagues,
but also on student opinion.
He deplored the emphasis on
research rather than, on good
teaching.
The forum which was held
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DOYLE NIEMANN . . . student opinion should be criterion
in hiring
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Almy, who will deal prin
cipally with the research as
pect of the committee, ex
plained that originally he had
planned to begin work by poll
ing various faculty members
concerning their ideas on the
budget.
"However, now that the
Faculty Senate is presenting
the faculty's case, we plan
to concern ourselves only
with the students," he de
clared.. "Starting next week,
we would like to start poll
ing the students."
Student Poll
He plans to contact students
with various points of view,
but particularly the vocal
ones- "We want their opinions
and complaints, such as long
lines, closed or dropped cours-
es, the shortage of library
books, etc."
Bowen is in charge of de
veloping the contact between
the state senators and the
students.
"We would like to organize
a correspondence campaign
by which we could get stu
dents to interest their parents,
relatives, and friends to write
their legislators in favor of
the budget," Bowen said.
He foresees a speaking tour,
composed of interested stu
dents, who would cover the
state. The students would
speak to civic clubs about the
budget, the University's prob
lems, and why an increase is
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'Rights'
outside for the first time, re
ceived favorable comment
from the audience.
"I liked It, it was really
good having it out in the op
en and it brought the audi
ence together more," said
one female member of the
audience.
Chairman of Talks and
Topics Committee, Larry
Grossman, thought that the
first forum went very well
and plans to continue holding
Hyde Park outside as long as
good weatiier continues.
instructors.
exist."
needed in the budget.
"We could show the citizens
and the legislators that we,
as students, take enough in
terest in the budget that we
will go out and talk about it,"
Bowen declared.
Bowen would like to see
students concerned enough
about the budget to write let
ters to their home town news
papers explaining the stu
dents' view on the budget.
'Senator File'
Another project would be
the development of a "sena
tor file" which would contain
background information on
all the senators.
"In this file we would place
a record of how each legis
lator has voted on various
bills, what his interests are,
and other information which
would help us in talking with
the senators."
Plans for this week, in ad
dition to the polling of stu
dents, according to Bromm,
include the compiling of a Ne
braska map which would
show each legislative district
and its respective legislator.
Bromm stressed, in conclu
sion, the necessity of hearing
from students about bis prob
lems. "This semester we will be
compiling the facts and de
ciding upon our role; second
semester we will do the real
work of contacting the legislators."
