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The Daily Nebraskan
.Friday, October 14, 1966
A Sleepy ASUN
Five weeks of school and ASUN is
still organizing.
Organization Is fine but really t h e
Daily Nebraskan feels that five weeks is
much too long for even an "organization
master" to be preparing to work.
One almost wonders what ASUN will
find to organize next.
Maybe a Faculty-Student-Administration-Court
that would take at least three
months and mean more "organization"
and less work for the majority of the
senators and executive leaders.
The senators could hold Interviews
for the next two weeks for the court and
then choose the "most qualified" people
they can find to sit on the court.
Organizing to help the students, or
ganizing to fight administration, organiz
ing to lobby the legislature it could go
on forever and nobody would need to do
a thing.
ASUN President Terry Schaaf said
himself last Monday that they are spend
ing too much time with organization and
we agree.
Vihat ASUN needs is not more organ
ization but some leadership. Student gov
ernment has a handful of capable sena
tors and committee chairmen, but unless
someone does more than hold nice threat
ening little chats with Pern nothing is
going to be accomplished.
The last several Senate meetings have
consisted mostly of announcements of ap
pointments and announcements of inter
views to be held. The Dally Nebrasakn
does not feel that student senators are
elected to only hold interviews.
On most university campuses, student
government is ignored by both the stu
dents and the administration. Students
have to rely on not so "well organized"
or "well dressed" groups such as SDS
to represent them fairly.
The Nebraskan forsces this type of
attitude at this University unless the ex
ecutives in this year's ASUN start show
ing more leadership.
The executives (primarily the presi
dent) are the only ones who can "wake
up" the majority of the senators and the
executives' lack of leadership is respon
sible for the present "super organizaiton,"
but sleepy student government that we
now have.
Wayne Kreuscher
A Place For 'Gripes'
Among those senators who apparent
ly don't need any executive leadership
are those concerned with student conduct
and a possible Student Bill of Rights.
Regardless of little executive under
standing of the problem, the student con
duct committee has been successfully
studying the area of student conduct and
students' rights.
Sunday this committee, headed by
Dick Schulze, will hold an open forum in
the Nebraska Union at 4 p.m. where Uni
versity students can state any grievances
they have in regard to the University.
The Daily Nebraskan definitely en
courages every student who has a "gripe"
to attend this forum and to speak out on
how he feels his rights are being mis
treated. Some senators and other concerned
students and faculty members have ex
pressed the desire to clarify exactly
what are student rights on this campus
and what rights the students should have
which they are not receiving. These peo
ple concerned with student conduct can
not help the students with the real, every
day "gripes" that affect them at the Uni
versity unless the students attend the for
um and make their grievances known.
The Nebraskan would like to suggest
that students might start with some of the
following topics:
AWS rules and the fact that Nebras
ka is far behind in liberalizing these
rules as compared to most universities
in the middle west.
Speakers and the fact that Nebras
ka has fewer speakers than most cam
puses and a definite type of subtle cen
sorship. Double jeopardy in which no mat
ter what a student does or how discon
nected it is to the school and his studies,
he is held responsible for his conduct not
only by the law but the school as well.
The strict and impractical rules in
regards to living unit and organizational
functions.
The fact that no one really knows
what the rules are at this University.
Wayne Kreuscher
Love, Flowers, Freedom
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following edi
torial was written by Toni Victor, senior
staff writer, who attended the regional
SDS meeting in Kansas City, Mo., iast
weekend. This is Miss Victor's view on
SDS after attending the meeting.
Utopia is not the easiest thing to
build. Brotherhood of man, love, flowers
and freedom these are not the most prac
tical things in the world.
Yet even in today's society, there are
some people who refuse to give up im
practicalitles. Students for a Democratic
Society (SDS) is trying to build a utopla.
Because of the elusiveness and the
impracticality of the long-range ,goal, peo
ple tend to discredit and take no account
of immediate programs of action spon
sored by SDS.
Last weekend's regional conference of
the Great Plains SDS gave a picture of
dedicated people working toward some
rather common-sense goals in the area
of social change.
One national project of SDS is JOIN,
an attempt to organize poor Southern
whites in Chicago. JOIN is headed by a
young man named Mike James, who
dropped out of a graduate position at
Berkeley and a middle-class background
in Newport, Conn., to work In the Up
town district of Chicago.
James is realistic and articulate about
his chances to organize a "freedom ma
chine" in the 48th ward of Chicago. He,
like most SDS members, does not ex
pect overnight success and an immediate
change in the slum conditions.
But at present he is planning to spend
at least the next five years of his life
trying to triumph over conditions he feels
our society has fostered.
And Bill Hartzog, an SDS organizer
in Topeka, will be sent to jail for what
he believes. He is serious in his refusal
to accept a status as a conscientious ob
jector, and he will not become Involved
in a Vietnamese war that he feels is
wrong.
Hartzog told the regional conference
that he Is not a martyr, but is simply
carrying out a personal decision that il
lustrates the serious nature of SDS phil
osophy. This seriousness and dedication per
meates all SDS action from university re
form, to criticisms of U.S. foreign policy.
Dedication is a dear commodity in a so
ciety characterized by lethargic apathy.
But what does SDS mean to the av
erage citizen and student? It means that
there is an undercurrent small still
of radicals with ideas who are not afraid
to protest, are not af raia to fight for what
they believe, existing in a country of peo
ple without firm, positive beliefs.
Man, you'd best know what SDS is
doing, because despite almost impossible
goals, SDS just might win. And if you're
a humanitarian and you too believe in
love, flowers and freedom, and if you're
not afraid to question the existing status
quo, you just might be saved, brother.
(Jan Sltkin Writes . . 4
How long does it take an organization
like. ASUN, for instance to get organ
ized?.. Who would have thunk that six months
have gone by since the Daily Nebraskan
heard that Us leaders didn't "want to
lose any time" and would start work Im
mediately? Why is it that individuals with prov
en leadership and ability (mixed with that
"dynamic" quality) could fail so miser
ably thus far in developing the leadership
potential that exists in the Senate? It
would seem that a strong and thinking
executive body would desire a strong leg
islative segment to work with if only to
perpetuate the organization.
It would also seem as though, some
people in authority do not realize that
next year' ASUN executives will mostly
come from the present Senate. Or is it
that, these, individuals are too power-hungry
and conceited to care about ASUN's
future.
Who would have thunk it?
Granted, organization is vital to pro
gress, but drawing the organizational time
out needlessly would tend to stagnate the
incentive of promising individuals who
are now bogged down with "laying the
ground work."
ASUN executives have stated that they
too believe the Senate is getting bogged
down with organization but are they do
ing anything about it? Although little evi
dence of actually doing something can
be seen, one would hope that they are.
Who would have thunk that an execu
tive could lack the organizational power
and knowledge to successfully motivate
an already Interested group to do more
than "organize?"
Perhaps, or rather hopefully, it is not
lack of knowledge and something will be
done.
It is hoped that ASUN will remember
that organization is like gathering the
wood for a fire and that unless that fire
is lit, the wood may prove useless.
If that situation would occur, only
one comment would suffice -who would
have thunk it? .
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Who Would Have Thunk It?
"A combination of cir
cumstances within the Uni
versity has led to the de
velopment of emergency
conditions . . . this could
toe termed a catch-up and
keep-up program." So said
Chancellor Hardin before
the Student Senate last
week, when he outlined
the $98 million budget re
quest for the next bien
nium. If the state legislature
grants a goodly portion of
the budget this year, some
important questions may go
unanswered. How does it
happen that an academic
institution ever has to be in
a position of admitting that
an educational crisis exists?
Why is it that the Univer
sity came up so short dur
ing the present biennium
when a bit of qualitative
foresight would seem to in
dicate that unusually high
enrollment is the rule, and
not the exception? Most im
portant, what will happen
to the University if the budg
et is not largely approved?
In past years these ques
tions were inevitably re
flected back upon the legis
lature, which was made to
look like some conservative,
brainless watchdog. And al
though sometimes this
seemed to be true, the Uni
versity has simply suc
ceeded in passing the criti
cal buck, refusing to share
in the blame for ' its own
problems and at the same
time leaving the problems
unsolved.
By making "political" ex
cuses for these problems
and letting them pile up un
til such a time when they
could no longer be ignored
the University failed it
self in a fundamental sense:
It refused to make a deci-
sion in favor of quality ed
ucation. That is, it made no
decision, but was content to
coast along in overdrive
(good gas mileage) at the
very time when positive low
gear engagement was re
quired. Thus the University
was not pressing for quality
education.
But what about the legis
lature? Most Nebraska stu
dents have a way of laugh
ing off Nebraska and the
legislature by saying, "Well,
that's Nebraska for you."
This again is shying away
from the problem.
When Senator Batchelder
of Omaha says he feels "the
exorbitant budget they
(the university) asked for
was occasioned by the op
portunity to get more mon
ey through a broadened tax
base," it is not enough to
say, "Well, that's Nebras
ka for you" not when the
quality of education is at
stake. The University must
be concerned with the style
of reasoning used by Sena
tor Batchelder and others
like him, for much of the
immediate future of the Uni
versity is dependent upon
the reactions toward higher
education of the people of
Nebraska like it or not.
And here is where the
University's indeci
sion about education has
most hurt the University
has neglected to educate
the state about the need for
quality education and the
cost it entails, rather le
ting them think that a qual
ity education could be had
at a budget cost.
But this was not the case,
for indeed, this current cris
is did not just happen sud
denly last summer, but it
has been evolving for some
years. And was this really
the legislature's fault?
The University cannot ex
pect the legislature to sell
higher education to the state
of Nebraska. The Univer
sity, rather, must go to the
people of the state and ac
tively explain the urgency
of the issue of higher edu
cation in this state. The
state will then sell higher
education to the legislature,
and the legislature will then
be properly exercising its
control on the University's
pursestrings with a little
more courage and lucidity.
But this process of edu
cating a state is a long,
difficult one, and it never
ends. It will take more than
educational television,
"Farm Facts and Fun," the
Nebraska Center, and the
home extension agents. It
will take work on the part
of University administrators
and faculty members they
will have to perceive the
ties that really do exist be
tween a state university and
its state.
The University cannot di
vorce itself from the future
of the state, maintaining
communication through
only the College of Agricul
ture. Dr. Hardin and his ad
ministration staff must
learn a lesson from Dr.
Manley and start visiting
the people who really count
the people of Nebraska.
It may be idle fancy to
expect the legislature to
save the University com
pletely from crisis this year
they are entirely justified
in being skeptical about a
sudden 61.1 increase in
operating revenue. If the
legislature doesn't bail the
University out of its trou
bles this year, the Univer
sity will no longer have a
choice it will be driven
to action; and hopefully this
action will tie the Unviver
sity closer to the people of
Nebraska.
The University must con
vince the state of Nebraska
that the future of the state
is inextricably bound up in
its educational system.
Then, and only then, will
true quality higher educa
tion be assured in this
state.
1
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By
"Remeber Sister R o g o,
we're Just looking after
your safety. When you en
rolled and entered this
House of God in pursuit of
sanctity and knowledge,
you entrusted all decisions,
in fact your life, to our
rules and regulations.
After all one must have
rules and regulations to
live by or else life would
hold no meaning. There is
no need to answer, Sister
Rogo, I already know you
are In complete agreement.
Since God is on our side,
our decisions concerning
your life are the right ones.
It is dictated by the Al
mighty above that we are
the only ones capable of
judging correctly for you
what is right and what is
wrong. Therefore it is our
sacred duty to preserve
your innocence and purity!'
'Now, Sister Rogo, you
can understand why you
must keep your drapes
closed at all times. We,
your superiors, realize
most completely the hidden
dangers to your chastity
contained in the rays of the
sun and the soothing glow
of the moon. Also in your
from the lascivious vice
closed you may live and
contemplate the wisdom of
our decisions protected
room, with the drapes
and corruption of the out
side world.'
'I must confess, Sister
Rogo, that It Is beyond my
comprehension why after
enjoying the bliss of t h i s
holy place for three years
you should suddenly request
a key, of all things, for the
belt of chastity around your
waist.'
'Do you not realize the
sinful implications that
Bruce Mason i
such a key would thrust
upon you. The very idea
would shock the righteous
benefactors of this estab
lishment. We, being fortunate to
have God on our side,
could not allow that. Who
would be the judge of how
you should act then? You
surely Jest when you sug
gest the dear sisters them
selves. How are they cap
able of achieving the sacred
objectivity which has per
meated our system of reg
ulations. I'm afraid, Sister Rogo,
that I will be forced to rep
rimand you for even con
ceiving such a scandalous
notion. We must not ques
tion the rules set up by
your superiors, far wiser in
matters of morality than
yourself!'
'Sister Rogo, you must
not question your hours ei
ther. We, your moral su
periors, have made the as
tounding discovery that
the temptation to sin is
much greater after 1
o'clock than it is at 11 in
the morning. In our re
search we have found that
the forces of Satan himself
abound at night seducing
naive maidens.
By being locked In your
room at night, your inno
cence and purity are pre
served in that hour of s I n
and lust between one and
two. However, you may
have noticed that on sever
al occasions, after a care
ful check with our astrolo
gy charts, we have extend
ed the hours to two. So you
see, Dear Sister Rogo, that
under our Mailable and
holy rules and regulations,
you do live in the best of all
possible worlds.
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Campus
O
pinion I
Coats Over Pajamas Need
Dear Editor,
i'v ?ikeitalk. ab0t coed living units-the kind of
coed ivmg that exists on each floor of the women's area
in Selleck Quadrangle.
Ult .q,.'"e - Selle( has a permanent colony of
men that inhabits the women's area. I'm referring to mv
neighbors down the hall; the painters, telephone men!
exterminators, and cleaning boys.
These men are pleasant conversationalists, but at
ronmX V" thmorninS Parade to the bath
room attired in something less than street clothes, even
the pleasant "good morning" of the cleaning boy fails
to assuage my embarrassment.
anrfLthiink evcrlgirl on the floor has tried the old hide
S3 th? gtT " CTtS f SCOuting the halIs for males
m fnn klfg "? dToorways until yu reach the bath
room in your towel. I always lose, however.
n.i ThJ JC?e,r- a" exPlanation f te men on cam
F ii i, J'me y0U are visit,n2 the women's area
out af EL S bC Urp,rlsed ,f you see coeds idling
out of bed In the morning in coats.
in, tka VOte on my floor and decided that wear
ing a coat over pajamas at least gives a semblance of
decency in the early morning hours. And don't be shy
Hats Off To Women '
Dear Editor:
I have just read the AWS publication, "Focus on the
Coed (I'm an experienced junior)" and I merely want
to say I had the hardest laugh I've had in TTong tTe
It s the funniest thing I've ever seen. And funnier
yet is the way the students in 1980 will laueh
My hat is off to the women of our campus I feel
tJZTyH0T yU because they're yur rules: and I am
SngetbheemUSe m haVe the PWer' as 2
I only hope that the next time you co to vour AWS
meeting, none of you will forget to s'ign ZtVeTvS
To Clear Misunderstanding
Dear Editor: &
To clear up any misunderstanding that mav exist I
wish to make it clear that the views exDressed in "f ptt
ers to the Editor" in Wednesday's DaiWebraskSn wt
neither written by myself or J. held by monllTy!
Mike Jess
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