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The Daily Nebraskan
Vol. 90, No. 30
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COMPLEMENTARY TICKETS ... to Abel and Sandoz Halls' production of Car
ousel were accepted by Gov. Frank B. Morrison. From left, are Jim Oschner,
musical director; Wayne Morton, Abel Hall president, Jeff Millholin, dramatics di
rector,, and Morrison.
Morrison Accepts Carousel Tickets
Ticket sales for Abel and
Sandoz Halls' production of
the musical, Carousel, offic
ially began Wednesday with
the presentation of two tickets
to Gov. Frank B. Morrison.
Wayne Morton, Abel Hall
president, said that the Gov
ernor is expected to attend the
musical which will be staged
in the Nebraska Union ball
room. Tickets for the Nov. 17 and
18 production are being sold
County,
To Ride In YR Parade
All county and state Repub
lican candidates will ride in
a parade Thursday night spon
sored by the University Young
Republicans.
Lancaster Young Republi
cans and Teenage Republi
cans will participate in the
parade. The campus living
unit Which has the most peo
ple taking part will be
awarded a trophy by the
Young Republicans, accord
ing to Cathie Shattuck, Young
Republican President.
The parade will begin from
the north door of the Union
at 7 p.m. on Thursday, and
travel down 0 street from
9th to 15th, and then back to
the Union.
Following the parade a
rally will be held at the Un
ion, and students will be given
a chance to meet and talk
with the candidates.
Cars for the candidates are
being obtained from fratern
ity and sorority houses, from
YR members, car dealers,
and some candidates are fur
nishing their own cars.
The Young Republicans will
also be working at county Re
publican headquarters in the
Chicago Trip Set
To Leave Nov. 25
The East Union trip to
Chicago will include visits
to the Museum of Science
and Industry, Shop Aquar
ium and the livestock mar
ket, according to D u a n e
Jewell, East Union spokes
man. The group will leave Nov.
25 and will return Sunday
evening.
Total costs, including
transportation and lodging
at the Palmer House are
$33. This is a saving of
about $30 over what an in
dividual trip would cost
Former
By Mick Lowe
Junior Staff Writer
Theodore Sorensen, former
aide to President John Ken
nedy, will speak at 4 p.m.
Thursday in the Union ball
room. Sorensen, a graduate of the
University and the University
Law School, was considered,
with the exception of Robert
Kennedy, to be the man
closest to John Kennedy dur
ing the Presidential years.
In an interview this week,
Sorensen expressed his views
on the Kennedy administra
by Abel residents for $1.50
each.
The production of Carousel
by Abel and Sandoz is the first
musical ever to be presented
by a University coed living
unit, Morton said.
"Rehearsals are going fine,
and everybody is putting in
loads of time," he added.
Morton said that the set
building crew had to be in
creased to construct the dif
ferent sets for changes of
scenes.
afternoons this week. A booth
has also been set up in the
Union for the distribution of
election material.
On Friday the YR's will be
distributing yard signs in the
Lincoln area, and on Satur
day they will campaign door
to door for Bob Denney, Re
publican candidate for con
gress. Coffee and doughnuts
will be served in the Union
at 9 a.m. on Saturday.
On election day, the Young
Kepublicans will be working
at the polls, handing out Re
publican information to t h e
voters before they go inside.
YR's will also be working at
keeping track of votes.
There will be a victory cel
ebration at the Lincoln Hotel
at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday night
sponsored by the Lancaster
County Young Republicans.
Phantom Team Enters
Quiz Bowl Competition
The Mystic Four, a phantom Quiz Bowl team, has en
tered this year's Quiz Bowl competition, according to
team captain Bill Minier.
Minier, who will not divulge the names of the other
team members, said the team will appear at Quiz Bowl
matches in robes with hoods, and Halloween type masks.
"The purpose of the team is to allow a group of people
to form a team and play anonymously," said Minier.
The first Quiz Bowl match of the year is tonight at 7
p.m. in the Nebraska Union. Only eight matches will be
held the first week, but sixteen will be held every Thurs
day night for the remainder of the season.
Two sets of equipment will be used, so two matches
will be run simultaneously in different rooms.
All teams that are playing Thursday night must re
port to the isolation room at 7 p.m. No one else will be al
lowed in the Isolation room, and the teams will be escorted
to the playing room by Quiz Bowl personnel.
Charles R. Gruner and E. S. Wallace will be the mod
erators, while Steve Ring and Allan Brandt will be the
judges.
Ned Hedges, Assistant Professor of English, is the new
Quiz Bowl advisor.
Presidential Aide To Speak Thursday In Union
tion and the future of t h e
Kennedy family.
Sorenson seemed concerned
about the rumors that Robert
Kennedy and President John
son are barely on speaking
terms.
"I don't think that's 'true.
The fact you see it so often
doesn't make it true," Soren
sen said. "Bobby Kennedy is
NOT running for President in
1968. The Kennedys know
that Johnson will be Presi
dent, health permitting, until
1972."
Bobby Kennedy could be
President, admitted Sorensen.
The sets are being built in
the basement of Abel and will
be transported to the Nebras
ka Union ballroom stage
within two weeks.
Set directors are Glenn
Nees and John Wergin.
AWS Seeking End
To Sign-In Sheets
Elimination of sign-in sheets
was proposed at the AWS
Board meeting Tuesday.
Board members will vote on
the resolution next week and
if it is passed, the new ruling
will become effective next
semester.
"The consensus of the board
seems to indicate that the pro
posal will be passed," Barb
Beckmann, AWS judicial vice
president said.
The resolution states that
sign-in sheets would be pro
vided for voluntary use only,
with the exception that over
nights, out-of-towns and going
home sign-outs would remain
mandatory.
All University women, ex
cept seniors, would have
11 p.m. week night closing
hours. Seniors will still have
midnight closing hours and
the use of the key system.
Frequent room checks will
be made to insure adherence
to the closing hour rules.
The AWS Board and repre
sentatives listed several ad
vantages the uniform hours
"The potential is there. But
it will be six years. He isn't
running for President now.
I've talked to him about it.
It's just that Bobby feels
strongly about many things."
Sorensen confessed that it
will be hard to know now
what history will say about
the Kennedy Administration.
"It's very possible that
what he has built will be torn
down. My guess is it will be
the change in the cold war,
missile crisis," he added.
People will remember the
missile crisis, Sorensen said,
because it changed the out
Since Planning Started ...
Housing Office
The University Housing Of
fice has "supported and en
dorsed" the concept of an
Interdormitory Council since
the Interdorm Coordinating
Committee began working on
its constitution, according to
Housing Director M. Edward
Bryan.
Bryan said that if the con
stitution is defeated in the
dormitories next week, it will
probably be because of dis
agreement with the document
Itself rather than the idea of
an interdorm government.
"I don't see any trouble
some areas in the Constitu
tion," Bryan said.
He predicted that the most
important functions of such
an organization would be to
serve as a coordinating body
between thelmember dormi
tories and fts a channel of
communication between them
and the Administration.
Bryan pointed out that last
year's coordinating commit
tee had presented an agenda
of possibilities for the council
ranging from coordinated so
cial functions to student as
sistant selection recommenda
tions to scholastic planning.
and unannounced room
checks would have. They are
as follows:
Uniform hours would in
volve only a 30 minute change
for freshmen women next
semester and no change for
upperclassmen. Many Univer
sities have initiated 11 p.m.
closing hours for freshmen
without repercussions.
This system would be
more convenient and accur
ate for the residence staffs
of the dormitory complexes.
The AWS Board main
tained that under the present
system the majority of coeds
do not sign out for specific
destinations and could not be
located from the information
stated on the sign-out sheets
anyway-
Representatives and stu
dent assistants have reported
that girls are usually located
in an emergency through
their roommates rather than
by the sign-outs sheets.
The present system rare
ly catches the coed who does
not sign-out but rather the
coed who does sign-out but
forgets to sign-in.
A room check system
would also determine if wom
en are in their quarters
whereas under the present
system a coed can sign-in and
leave again without detection.
Miss Beckmann added that
women would probably sign
out accurately if they did it
on a voluntary basis.
If a coed voluntarily signs
out, she will not be penalized
for neglecting to sign-in, Miss
Beckmann said.
CEC Rescheduled
To Meet Nov. 17
The Council for Excep
tional Children (CEC) will
not meet Thursday as pre
viously scheduled, accord
ing to Jan Connell, presi
dent. The next meeting will be
Nov. 17 at 4:30 p.m. in the
Nebraska Union.
look of the people of the
United States toward the So
viet Union.
"People don't say It is In
evitable that we'll have a war
with Russia. Before, they
weren't so sure," he contin
ued. Sorensen said it is difficult
to compare the New Frontier
and the Great Society.
"Those are both labels. As
far as the legislative pro
grams go, the Great Society
is an extension of the New
Frontier," he said. "The
rent supplement bill and the
demonstration cities bill are
"This would be no puppet
organization," Bryan said.
Bryan said that he didn't
know of a n y obstacles to
ASUN approval of the consti
tution for the Interdorm Coun
cil, but that he didn't know
the standards by which the
ASUN reviewed constitutions
either.
Saying that he had been
"quite surprised" at the pace
of the coordinating committee
in drawing up the constitution
and presenting it for approv
al, Bryan praised them for
"accomplishing a great deal
In a very short time."
Bryan said that the admin
SNCC Representative
Clarifies 'Black Power'
A representative of the Stu
dent Non-violent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC) left the
University Wednesday after
five days of informal speak
ing on campus.
Bob Smith, a field worker
for SNCC, returned to the na
tional office in Atlanta, after
participating in the Black
Power Teach-in Sunday and
talking with students in dor
mitory residences, churches
and a meeting of Friends of
SNCC (FSNCC).
Smith's trip to Lincoln was
sponsored by Students for a
Democratic Society (SDS) to
explain SNCC's official posi
tion on the newest concept in
the civil rights movement,
black power.
"Northern student groups
have cut us loose because
. they didn't understand black
power," stated Smith in the
FSNCC meeting.
To clarify a misunderstand
ing of the term, Smith stated
that black power means po
litical and economic power
for Negroes in districts where
they are in a majority.
He stressed that it did not
mean that Negroes desired
political control of a state,
region or the nation, but did
want "black sheriffs and
judges" in counties of t h e
Welfare Committee, Minority Groups
To Discuss Discrimination On Campus
Student minority groups
soon will have a chance to
discuss discrimination on
campus through a series of
formal meetings sponsored
by the ASUN Student Wel
fare committee, according
to Ron Pfeifer, committee
chairman.
"Through these meetings
and discussions, my com
mittee hopes to determine
exactly where there is dis
crimination on the cam
pus," Pfeifer explained.
He said the committee
hopes to talk to Negro, In
dian and Jewish students,
as well as any other minor
ity groups or foreign stu
dents, to find out if a n d
where discrimination exists
at the University.
"The discussions are not
and end in themselves," he
stressed. "Rather, they are
a first step. The committee
can't do any work unless we
know about the problem."
The first hurdle, accord
ing to Pfeifer, is "exposing
both new and I think they are
both good bills."
If Kennedy did affect a new
Cold War policy, some observ
ers believe Vietnam could
block U.S. attempts for fur
ther cooling off with the So
viet Union. What would Ken
nedy have done about Viet
nam? "That question is asked ev
erywhere," Sorensen said.
"Kennedy acted with re
straint. He felt that decisions
should be carried out by the
South Vietnamese themselves.
It's a difference in degree."
Did the Kennedy admini
'Endorsed9 IDC
istration would consider rec
ommendations of the IDC "to
the degree that they represent
4,200 students," but that the
administration would still so
licit opinions of those con
cerned with any problem.
Bryan referred to the situa
tion last year when Cather
Hall drew up a proposal to al
low refrigerators in the rooms
of that dorm with control and
supervision being the re
sponsibility of Cather.
He said that subsequently
approval for refrigerators
was given only to Cather,
while such a recommendation
by the IDC would possibly
South where the Negro popu
lation is sometimes as high
as 80 per cent.
Black power, in Smith's
eyes, signals an identity for
Negroes as a minority group
in the country. However, he
noted that for the civil rights
movement of social change,
Negroes would need a "coa
lition between poor whites
and Negroes."
For this reason, Smith ex
plained, SNCC is now asking
white civil rights workers to
go home and organize white
communities.
Smith explained some of
the projects that SNCC is in
volved in, which are mainly
electoral in nature.
SNCC is currently working
in Georgia to re-elect Julian
Bond to the State Legislature
from the 136th District in At
lanta. Bond has been elected
four times by the people in
his district, yet the Legislat
ure has refused to seat him
because of his stand on the
Vietnam war.
"Each time he has been
elected, his per centage of
votes gets smaller," said
Smith who explained that for
this reason SNCC is working
hard for the coming election.
Alabama elections and
Freedom Democratic Parties
the places where either dis
crimination or the pressure
of discrimination is locat
ed." The discussions, which
Pfeifer hopes can be start
ed before Thanksgiving, will
be small and informal.
"We hope that' anyone
who attends these groups
will speak freely on any
problems they have experi
enced or witnessed," he
said. "Only if this happens,
can the committee accom
plish anything."
Pfeifer stated that the
problem of discrimination
is more than a campus
problem. "It is a decision
that we all have to make.
To say that you can't legi
slate morality is a trite
saying, but we hope that by
exposing some of the exam
ples of discrimination on
campus, that this might
serve as a partial solution
to the problem."
Within the next two
stration have a philosophy to
guide their legislation?
"The Kennedys, I think,
tried to be pragmatic and do
what is best for the people,"
he said.
"The Kennedy philosophy
was summed up in a conver
sation he and I had once,"
Sorensen continued. "He said
it wasn't true that all Ameri
cans were created equal. Ev
eryone has different talents
and capacities. But everyone
should have equal opportuni
ties to develop their talents."
Sorensen left public service
lead to a universal dormitory
policy.
"It's becoming more and
more important to have such
a group on campus," Bryan
said, and he noted that the
constitution for the IDC had
"come from within" the dor
mitory system.
He said that the question of
an interdorm council versus
the title of an association of
residence hall students
seemed to be only a "ques
tion of terminology."
"The need for such a group
will remain whether or not
the constitution is passed,"
Bryan said.
(FDP) in that state are also
an area of concentration for
SNCC, said Smith.
Smith talked of voting dis
crimination at registration of
fices and polls in Alabama,
despite the 1965 civil rights
legislation. He told of deliber
ately miscounted ballots that
have given white politicians
.victories in Negro majority
areas-
"We won't win in Alabama
in 1966 even though we have
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Bob Smith
weeks, the committee plans
on sending letters to wom
en living in the residence
halls inviting them to take
part in a discussion. Work
ing through Kappa Alpha
Psi fraternity, the commit
tee hopes to talk with Ne
gro men, Pfeifer stated.
"Our main problem lies
in contacting Lincoln Uni
versity students who might
be affected by discrimina
tory practices," Pfeifer ex
plained. "The success of our in
vestigation into discrimina
tion depends on the re
sponse of the people we con
tact, he said. "These dis
cussion groups, however,
are not limited to members
of minority groups, but can
be attended by anyone on
campus who wishes to ex
press his opinion."
Besides the problem of
discrimination, the Student
Welfare committee is also
looking into the recreation'
al opportunities on campus.
when the transition between
the Kennedy and Johnson ad
ministrations had been com
pleted. He completed a best
selling account of the Ken
nedy administration and en
tered law practice with t h e
New York firm Paul, Weiss,
Rifkind, Wharton and Garri
son. Sorensen teaches a weekly
class on the executive office
at Princeton University as
well. He returned to Nebras
ka last week to campaign for
his brother Phil, the Demo
cratio gubernatorial candidate-
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