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WESLEY FOUNDATION
President Supports
Electoral Proposals
A change in the electoral
procedures of AWS has the
backing of Pam Hedgecock,
president of AWS.
Speaking before a meeting
of the ASUN Student Conduct
Committee meeting, Miss
Hedgecock said that "as an
individual, I would like to see
the procedure changed."
She spoke of the proposal
for a change in the electoral
procedures made to the AWS
Board by Candy May. There
was much discussion on the
proposal, according to Miss
Hedgecock, and that it was
jforwarded to the Constitu
tutional committee.
Miss Hedgecock stated that
the autonomy of the A W S
Board was hard to define, be
cause "the character of AWS
is changing. It has been dur
ing the past few years that
AWS has become more of a
government than an activ
ity." "However, the board does
have more power than I
imagined," Miss Hedgecock
stated. "But I feel that its
power should definitely be
better clarified."
Miss Hedgcock suggested
Dorm Dwellers Vote On
Interdorm Constitution
By Nancy Henrickson
Senior Staff Writer
A constitution creating an
Interdorm Council will be pre
sented on a ballot to students
in University residence halls
Monday, Nov. 7.
All dormitory residents liv
ing on city and East campus
will have the opportunity to
vote for or against the con
stitution. The constitution was written
by the Interdorm Coordinating
Committee (IDCC) during a
three month period beginning
last March.
Ideas for the Interdorm
Council were initiated by
Marv Almy, past RAM presi
dent, Tony Redman, past
president of Cather and Tom
Holeman, past president of
Abel.
IDCC Formed
A temporary coordinating
Estate Of $15,200
Willed To Nil
A retired Army sergeant
who lived most of his life
outside the State of Nebras
ka willed his entire estate
of $15,200 to the University
Foundation for use in as
sisting "in the improve
ment of educational stand
ards." Daniel Bestor, who died
last year at El Paso, Tex
as, was a native of Platts
mouth. The bequest, which was
received this week, will be
Invested and the income
will be ' used in Mr. Bes
tor's name "to meet the
greatest needs" of the Uni
versity, Harry R. Haynie,
Foundation president, said.
In 1953, Mr. Bestor
established a scholar
ship fund in the Foundation
with a donation of common
stock valued at $2,767. With
additional donations and
through careful investments
by the Foundation, the Bes
tor Scholarship Fund now
has grown to a valuation
of $56,982, Haynie said.
This present school year,
income from the perman
ent Bestor Fund supported
$3,422 in scholarships for
College of Agriculture and
Home Economics students,
Haynie said.
on campus.
that if the Student Conduct
committee decides to draw upOCT
a Bill of Rights, they include a
statement that women have
the right to govern for them
selves.
When questioned as to the
rationale behind the reason
ing that women but not men
should have hours, Miss
Hedgecock stated that men
are looked upon by society
in a different light. "Women
are under different cultural
limitations than men."
Dick Shulze, chairman of
the committee, announced
that a symposium on total ed
ucation has been organized
for Tuesday afternoon.
Susie Phelps, a member of
the committee, reported on
Publications Board. She
stated that the specific pow
ers of the board are vague.
"For instance it is not clear
where the permission corr.ps
from on whether it is all
right to permit a certain pub
lication. A clarification of the
powers of the board and the
steps involved in obtaining
permission for a new publica
tion should be made," she
concluded.
body, the IDCC, was formed
by the presidents and repre
sentatives of nine University
residence halls last February.
Jim Ludwig, chairman of
the IDCC, said that the pro
posed Council will provide a
medium of communication be
tween the dorms where prob
lems of the dorms can be in
vestigated. The Council wiil be con
cerned with all methods of
housing, he said. For instance
it is his opinion that it is not
best to group all freshmen
women together, as in the
Women's Residence Hall.
New Programs
The Council will also try to
initiate new programs, such
as a dormitory leadership
workshop, he said.
The effect of the Council on
students will depend on the
actions of the officers in pow
er," Ludwig said, "and if
they choose to take immediate
action to affect the students
or the residence hall system
as a whole."
The Council will have judi
cial powers to enforce its de
cisions, but the Council Court
will serve mostly as an ap
pellate body, he added.
Council Court
The use of the Council Court
will depend on the dormi
tories and individuals in
volved. The dormitories do
not have many judicial de
cisions in need of appeal,
Ludwig stated.
Marv Almy, last semester's
IDCC chairman, said that the
Council will be a figurehead
and spokesman agency and
will primarily have a unify
ing effect on the dorms.
Instead of having four or
five separate dorms the coun
cil will serve as a basis of
common interests, Almy said.
Effect Long Term
"The total effect of the
Council is long term, not im
mediate," he said.
More planning of over-all
policies will result and the
Council will probably make
some individual decisions that
could best be bandied by an
interdorm body, lie added.
Whether the council stays
weak or strong will depend
on the people on the Council,
Almy stated. He added that
he did not think the Council
should get so strong that it
overrides the Individual de
Campus Religious Centers Emphasize
'Same Gospel But Different Application'
Campus chapels to some
people would seem different
from churches in other parts
of town.
For one thing, the ministers
often seem more concerned
with issues such as civil
rights, black power and sex
than do other ministers.
The Rev. Mr. James Reed
of the Wesley Foundation on
campus explained that pas
tors "regardless of where they
speak, speak in the language"
of their congregations.
College students, he con
tinued, simply place a differ
ent emphasis on world affairs
than do other congregations
"and desire to do something
about it."
"They want to find where
the action is," he added. "We
apply the gospel to their
questions. The gospel stays
the same no matter wnat tne
congregation only the ap
plication changes."
The sermons delivered at
the various religious houses on
campus Sunday gave evidence
ARCHIVES
Monday, October 31, 1966
Black Power Teach-In . . .
'Power Structures'
By Toni Victor
Senior Staff Writer
"You can stop black power
by doing what your country
tells you to do," stated panel
ist Mike James at the Black
Power Teach-in Sunday night
in the Nebraska Union.
An audience of over 500
heard the need for Black
Power and poor white power
explained in terms of "inval
id American mores and val-
cisions and actions of the
dorms.
Coordinate Activities
The constitution states that
the purpose of the Interdorm
Council will be to provide a
self-governing body to coor
dinate the activities of the
residence halls.
It will discuss and regulate
matters of general interest to
the whole residence hall sys
tem and serve as an agency
through which relations be
tween administration and res
idents may be maintained.
All students living in the
University residence halls
which have approved the con
stitution will be members of
the Interdorm Council.
Residents whose halls ap
prove the constitution by a
majority of the hall residents
voting will become fully ac
credited members of the
Council.
Residents from halls that
have not approved the cos
stitution may be represented
in all Council proceedings by
a non-voting delegate.
Audubon Lecture
Held This Week
The first of five Audubon
wildlife films and lectures
scheduled for the 1966-67
school year will be held at
4:30 and 8 p.m. Monday in
Love Library.
The film, "Tidewater
Trails," will be shown by
Charles T. Hotchkiss, who
has attempted to capture
the "wild beauty of Tide
water, Virginia as it ap
peared to the Colonial na
turalist Mark Catesby." ;
Many of the sights that
Inspired Catesby in his
life's work of recording the
natural history of North
America remain un
changed. Nesting orchard
orioles, - an amusing opos
sum family and courting
wood ducks inhabit this
scenic area, along with
clapper rails and snapping
turtles.
Tickets for the film series
may be obtained at the Ex
tension Division of the Uni
versity, at the University
State Museum, or the Miller
and Paine store service
desk.
of this attitude of application
to collegiate concerns.
'New Ideas'
At St. Thomas Aquinas
Church and Catholic Student
Center, students were urged
both to read writers such as
Karl Marx and Teilhard d'
Chardin and to attend the
Black Power, teach-in spon
sored by SDS Sunday night.
The Rev. Mr. Immig
stressed that Christians have
an obligation to encourage so
cial reform tnd that the teach
in would provide them with
the opportunity to realize the
obligation.
At an earlier service, the
Rev. Mr. Raymond Hain in
structed students that Cath
olics should "embrace the
world" in areas of both sci
ence and religion, since "both
are true."
He added that to achieve
this end, the student must be
come totally educated by read
ing authors who have advo
cated new ideas.
Previous topics of sermons
rs j ) est i
ues," according to one of the
ten speakers, Hughes Shanks,
an ex-Congress of Racial
Equality (CORE) worker in
Kansas City.
Though definitions of t h e
term "black power" varied
according to each individual
panelist, all speakers levelled
blows at the existing "power
structures" in society. The
press, school systems, w e 1
fare programs, political sys
tems, police departments and
ministry received varying de
grees of criticism as stumbl
ing blocks in the civil rights
and radical movements.
A view of "America, the
country that lies", "school
systems that don't teach
people to think" and a "press
that interprets for its own
ends," was presented by two
panels of Negro civil rights
workers and white radicals,
as they termed themselves.
"Black power is not a
racist threat. It's a deeply
human challenge to stand up
and say "no" to the system,"
declared Greg Calvert, na
tional Students for a Demo
cratic Society (SDS) secre
tary. Calvert continued to say
that black power is a chal
lenge that must be pondered
as it could mean the "possi
bility of a new America or a
deep and tragic catastrophe
for all of us."
The panelists generally
agreed that black power is a
call for Negro identity and
political - economic power,
though according to the or
ganization they represented,
the speakers had different in
terpretations of the concept's
implications and how it should
be put into action.
Dr. Patrick Wells, a mem
ber of the National Associa
tion for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP) and
Rev. Tom Rehorn, the write-
SPOOKY? NOT A BIT. Nancy Aronson's jack o' lantern puts on a
happy face, maybe he's chuckling at his flowery neighbor.
at the Center concerned sex
and various racial problems
on the University campus.
Jonah, Monroe, Birch
The Rev. Mr. Duane Hutch
inson of Wesley Foundation re
lated the Bible tale of Jonah
and the whale in connection
with a Marilyn Monroe movie,
the John Birch Society and
the war in Viet Nam.
Jesus was the leader of the
leader of the zealot un
derground, Rev. Hutchinson
said, and yet he preached a
message of compassion for
one's enemies.
He also compared the story
of Jonah being sent by God to
Ninevah to save the' city from
sin to civil right efforts and
the war in Viet Nam.
"Jonah hated the people of
Ninevah," he said, "yet God
sent him on a mission of re
demption saying, 'Should I
not pity Ninevah?"
"Everyone has his Nin
eveh," he continued, "a n d
everyone knows people that
he can't stand, but we should
The Daily Nebraskan
in peace candidate from Ne
braska to the U.S. Senate,
disclaimed either the need for
black power as the Student
Non-violent Coordinating Com
mittee (SNCC) has inter
preted it, or denied its exis
tence and possibility.
Wells, though not officially
authorized as a representa
tive of NAACP said his group
advocates supporting legisla
tion as the means to civil
rights for Negroes.
"We do not condone vio
lence. Riots have done nothing
to help. Black power has
precipitated some riots,"
claimed Wells.
W7ells stated that the con
cept of black power cannot
work because it teaches Ne
gro youths to shout the slo
gan before they know what
it means. He said that if
black power can be defined
as power to get a better edu
cation in order to vote wisely,
he would be in favor of it.
"Black power is not a fact
and it won't be for a long
time," stated Rehorn.
Rehorn said that Negroes
should start talking in terms
of economic power exclusive
ly. He explained that there is
no chance for the Negro to
come up by himself without
dollars allocated by existing
agencies in the field of pover
ty programs.
The SNCC and Core repre
sentatives took a stand on
black power that seemed sim
ilar in the concept's implica
tions. Both representatives
stated that if in the course of
demonstrations, self-defense
was called for, they would al
low physical violence. This is
a change from the former
CORE ruling that there should
be no retaliation in direct ac
tion by a CORE demonstra
tor, according to Shanks.
Ernest Chambers, a mem
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have pity and compassion for
our enemies."
Types Of Murder
He alluded to the Viet Nam
situation, the rising cost of
food prices, and Black Pow
er as he spoke of three types
of murder in practice today.
Escape and cutting oneself
off is, according to Rev.
Hutchinson, a form of mur
der. He said it happens in
marriages when the two part
ners cannot relate to each oth
er. A scene from a Marilyn
Monroe movie was used as
an example of this type of
murder.
The second type of murder,
and "the most economical
way of destroying one's ene
mies," is physical violence,
the minister declared.
"Twenty pounds of flesh
for one pound of TNT," stated
Rev. Hutchinson in referring
to the economical way t h e
United States is getting rid
of its enemies in Viet Nam.
The John Birch Society's
Criticized
ber of no civil rights organi
zation, stated that "violence
is justified" as a means to ob
tain black power. Hec laimed
that under the present police
system in such places as
Omaha, violence on the spot
is the only way to get satis
faction. Chambers stated that
revenge is something that
white people must consider.
"The police force in Omaha
has no educational require
ment and no morals," claimed
Chambers as he related his
experience with "sham in
vestigations" by the police
department in the killing of
a young city Negro by a po
liceman. "In Omaha they tell police
men that if a Negro is in
volved in a case, the police
are authoriezd to kill him,"
Chambers declared.
Calvert stated that SDS
has passed the point of is
suing resolutions concerning
integration, "because integra
tion implies the integrity of
the system."
Stokely Carmichael, chair
man of SNCC, has stated
many times that white civil
rights workers should "go
bom e." According to Bob
Smith, SNCC panelist at the
teach-in, Carmichael meant
to "go home and work."
"As long as you come from
an all-white sorority or fra
ternity to work in black
neighborhoods, you are con
tributing to the s y s t e m,"
stated Shanks.
"Black power is addressed
to the poor Negro and no one
else. Black power will help
me understand myself and
my people," stated Shanks.
According to Shanks, one of
the concept's four aims is to
make Negroes "stop being
ashamed of being black." He
stated that when a people
deny themselves it does ugly
methods for ferreting oat
Communists was used as an
example of the third type
of murder killing of t h e
spirit by defamation.
"This is the modern form
of murder. Brainwashing was
something Jonah didn't know
about," said Rev. Hutchinson.
He concluded by saying that
when a person opens the doors
of compassion to his enemies,
his enemies will enter, but
God will also be among them.
Vicar David Dressel spoke
at the University Luth
ran Chapel on "Living Under
the Blessings of the Reforma
tion". Vicar Dressel emphasized
that Luther was an instru
ment of God and was not a
revolutionary as such.
Luther posted his 95 theses
for the scholars and "thinking
men of his society," he con
tinued. Vicar Dressel explained to
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things inside. After Negroes
face each other as part of a
united minority group, a
power base for political ac
tion in the civil rights move
ment will be initiated, said.
Shanks. He called black
power a "setting out on a
journey to human values."
"It's a hope that says black
identity through political and
economic power," stated Bob
Smith.
James McCarty of Southern
Christian Leadership Council
(SCLC) noted that. ..all Amer
ican minority groups have
striven for political power in
blocks, and that this is what
black power will try to do.
The crowd of students par
ticipated in the discussion by
asking questions of the panel
ists during the two and a
half hour teach-in. The teach
in was sponsored by SDS at
the University and drew peo
ple from Kansas, Chicago and
areas in between.
Quiz Bowl
Will Match
124 Teams
A total of 124 Quiz Bowl
teams, an increase of 28
teams over last year, regis
tered at the captains' meeting
Thursday night.
Upperclass and graduate
tfeams numbered 84, while
there were 40 freshman
teams. No more team regis
trations will be accepted.
A double elimination tourna
ment will be used. If time
runs out at the end of the sea
son before competition is com
pleted, a switch may be made
to single elimination.
Two sets of Quiz Bowl
equipment will be used this
year. In this manner, two
matches can run simultan
eously in different rooms in
the Union.
Freshman competition will
not begin for about three
weeks. Regular team compe
tition will begin Thursday
night at 7 p.m.
Teams competing on Thurs
day include Abel IV ATO
Actives; Chi Phi A Fair
field Etc.; Love Memorial I
Phi Psi Whiz Kids; Sigma
Chi III Theta Xi I; Abel
VII Chi Omega Actives; Ag
Men Theta Chi Oxymorons;
Pangouros SAE Aces; Al
pha Ohi Omega Beta Sigma
Psi I.
East Union Holds
Pool Tournament
East Campus Union is
sponsoring a ping pong and
pool tournament, according
to Jan Binger, publicity
chairman for the East Un
ion. Students who wish to par
ticipate should sign up at
the East Union by Nov. 1
at 4 p.m. Thve is a $.50
entry fee.
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