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Friday, December 9, 1966 The Daily Nebraskon lu I9(fg y0, 9jQ No cxdcc r-fcVI "j'i fOC d O CD OC llfl 1 1 ? j VAseir SEARCHING . . . students reflect on possible sources at the Library's Card Catalog. Libraries To Stay Open If Staff Volunteers Work By Randy Irey Senior Staff Writer The libraries will remain open the first three weekends in January if enough of the staff volunteers to work with out pay for these evenings according to Eugene John son, associate director of the libraries. "We are going to do our best to comply with the reso lution passed by the Student Senate asking us to remain open at these times. Howev er, it takes a minimum of seven people to staff the Love Library before we can even open the doors," he ex plained, "and three to staff the Thompson Library." He said that it has been the library's policy to remain opn on Friday nights during finals, but that staying open Saturday nights also, would necessitate finding volunteer staff for four extra nights. Finals Openl g "I believe that our staying open these nights is especial ly important during the time of finals. We have been wanting to stay open seven nights a week, but it has been a matter of a lack of funds," Johnson declared. The resolution was present ed at the student senate meeting by John Winkworth, chairman of the ASUN Li braries committee. It was the result of a report made on the condition of the li brary system. The approach taken by t'ae committee was to study re search already done on the libraries, talk with the staff of the libraries and with Schreiber's Petition Revieiv Set The Student Court received a petition for rehearing of the ASUN vs. Mark Schreiber case Wednesday according to Keith Mclntyre, Chief Justice of the court. Mclntyre said that the court would meet Thursday evening to consider the petition and that an opinion on granting or denying the petition would be given then, with a written opinion to be available next week. In the petition, Schreiber's counsel, according to Mcln tyre, states that any reappor tionment theory adopted by the court should not be retro active in nature, but rather prospective. In addition, he raised t h e question of why Schreiber was not allowed to retain his seat until a hearing on t h e petition was held. Schreiber, a former student senator from Arts and Sciences, lost his seat on the senate as a result of the pre vious case. In its decision, the court said that the method of apportionment used by the ASUM Electoral Commission last Spring was not the best method for obtaining direct apportionment, faculty members, and to evaluate student opinion through a questionnaire which was distributed within the library system. The questionnaires were not designed to obtain a ran dom sampling for the com mittee felt that an accurate description of the library could be better obtained by polling the people who used the library facilities. The questionnaire was com pleted by 888 students. The average amount of usage of the library facilities by the students sampled was 3.9 days per week, with the larg est majority using the li brary five days a week. Related Work v It was determined by the questionnaire that the major reasons for using the library had to do with work direct ly related to courses. A total of 66.3 per cent of those who answered the questionnaire used the library for study and preparation for classes. Concerning the desirability of increased service on week ends, 88.2 per cent of the students felt that the librar ies should be available either Friday evenings, Saturday evenings or both. The two major problems which students felt were most bothersome were the inaccessability of material and the overcrowded condi tions. Other problems were tin catalogue system, abuse or loss of material, inade quate material, and inade quate personnel. National Standard There are library seats on all three campuses for about 12 per cent of the stu dent body, while the common national standard is 30 per cent, according to the report. However according to a member of the library staff, a more realistic minimum would be 20 per cent, which Viet Nam . . Begging EDITOR'S NOTE: The fol lowing is an Installment on a series on the Viet Nam war written by Howard Moffett, former editor of the Yale Daily News. Moffett Is a full time correspondent for the Collegiate Press Service and is presently working in Sai gon. SAIGON - The sky was overcast. It was almost noon, time for a midday shower. I was standing on the curb waiting for a pedicab not far from the intersection of two of Saigon's main streets, Le Van Duyet and Hong Thap Tu. The Oercle Sportif was just around the corner. There didn't seem to be many empty pedicabs. A lit tle Vietnamese boy came along the dirt path that served for a sidewalk, but I was watching the street and didn't notice him at first. When I turned, he was stand leaves a shortage of 1400 seats among the three cam puses. The report stated that the most critical areas of "our library system would seem to indicate needs for an in crease in: 1.) the accessibil ity of the material; 2.) the quantity of the personnel; and 3.) the availability of the facilities. To help remedy the criti cized conditions the library personnel have determined some specific plans. In order to Increase acces sibility to the material, the circulation desk will be moved to first floor and the Central Reserve Room will be moved to the present Sci ence Reading Room, elimin ating a space shortage in the reserve room. The Science Reading Room will be moved to a section of the basement. In addition, two floors of Nebraska Hall will be taken over to provide increased study room and will be stocked with new cop ies of heavily demanded ma terial for courses. Staff Shortage To help eliminate the short age of staff, the library por tion of the budget requests 14 professional librarians and 34 sub-professional and cler ical staff members. With the fall of 1967, the libraries propose to be open seven nights a week to aid in increasing the availability ' the facilities. However, the library faces a shortage of funds for accomplishing a 1 1 these plans. As a result of this facet of the report, Wink worth presented a resolution at the senate meeting asking that ASUN support the li braries budget in the pro posed University budget. The Senate approved the resolution. . Eyes Are Trial ing there eyeing - me from about ten feet away. I guessed he was six or seven. Even standing on tip toe he wouldn't have reached quite to my belt line. He was probably wearing rubber thongs, I don't remember. I did notice he had on a match ing pair of dark blue shorts and shirt, cleaned and fresh ly ironed, with some sort of colored emblem embroidered on the shirt pocket. He looked like he'd just had a haircut. His eyes were dark and wide, like a six-or-seven-year-old boy's. While I was noticing these things, and keeping half an eye on the traffic in hopes of finding my pedicab, he was looking at me with a sort of quizzical expression on his face, his eyes downcast. I turned back to the street for a few seconds, then shift ed so that I was facing h im again. In that brief moment, Hardin For Static Tuition, Hike Causes Enrollment Lag By Julie Morris , Senior Staff Writer University tuition rates should be "kept at as low a level as possible," Chan cellor Clifford Hardin told state officals Thursday. In answer to questions from Gov.-elect Norbert Tiemann, Hardin said higher tuition rates could keep deserving students from attending c o 1 lege and could cause enroll ment drops. The Chancellor was speak ing to Tiemann and Gov. F'rank Morrison in the second day of. the governor's budg et hearings on the Univer sity's biennium budget re quest. Questions Tuition Tiemann's tuition query was the second time during the hearings that he brought up the subject. Wednesday he had asked Curt Bromm what the student reaction would be if tution was raised. Bromm said students would go along with a hike if it was a "fair" one. Hardin told the governor and governor-elect that there is a "rigid attitude" among students and the people of the state in general in regard to a University tution hike. He urged that tuition be kept at as low a rate as possible "in the interest of our Ne braska young people." Other University adminis trators attending the hearing joined Hardin in his opinion. "My personal opinion is that this is a public institu ton and it should be primar ily and substantially s u p ported by public funds," Vice Chancellor G. Robert Ross said. "I would share that (Ross's) judgment," Hardin said. No Statement When questioned by report ers after the hearing, Tie-' mann said he would make no statement on a University tuition rate until he has studied the University budget request in detail. Tiemann and Morrison will be composing executive budg Summer School Keeps The summer school session for 1967 will remai.i in the same form it has been in the past, according to Dr. Frank Sorenson, director of summer sessions. There has been rumor of the possibility of the Univer sity adopting a schedule of two five and a half week sessions for summer school, but Sorenson said that it has been decided that it is too late in the year to change for this summer. "I believe that it is t h e hope of Chancellor Clifford Hardin and the Board of Re gents that the possibility of changing the summer calen dar be considered carefully," Sorenson stressed. his eyes narrowed slightly and is little hand shot out in a gesture that means the same thing all over the world: give me some money. He didn't say a word, and the unsure expression on his face stayed exactly the same. Nobody in Saigon would get upset over something like this. It happens to any Amer ican countless time every day. The population of Sai gon has doubled in the 1 a s t few years, to almost two and a half million. Most of these people are refugees, who left what they owned in the countryside and are living now in the streets of the city. They form a whole new social class which has been created by the war and is now trying to uiake a living from it. Many of the young girls become prostitutes or host esses in the hundreds of bars that have sprung up to cater ets to be presented to the Legislature in January. Hardin said that enrollment rates at Omaha University have dropped off since the school raised its tution. "By raising their tution they feel very definitely there has been a drop in enrollment," he said. Ross added that, if a high school assumes a student cannot afford to go on to col lege because of high costs, the possibility that the stu dent will be encouraged to go on "m a y be lessened," leaving the student out of an educational opportunity. Low As Possible Hardin said that the basic philosophy of universities in the beginning was that they should be tution free. Hardin said that it should be a "public policy" to keep state university tuition rates as low as possible. NU Officials Suggest Resolution On Budget Supplement Request University officials sug gested Thursday that Gov. Frank Morrison might formu late some type of resolution urging state senators to give prompt consideration to a re quest for a supplemental ap propriation. The University is planning to ask the Legislature for $560,612 to finish the biennium which ends June 30. Adminis tration officials found the Un versity lacking the funds early last Srping, due to un expected enrollment in creases. The request would go to the Legislature in January when the senators convene. University officials expressed the hope that the request would be dealt with early in the session so the school could continue to operate without a lapse in financial backing. Chancellor Clifford Hardin and Vice Chancellor Joseph He said the Vice Chancel lor Merk Hobson, Deun of Fac ulties, has been asked by Har din to study the chances of changing the summer calen dar. "The ultimate authority for changing the calendar rests with the Faculty Senate. However, such a change will be studied by the Faculty Senate Liaison and Calendar committees, and they will In turn make recommendations to the senate," he explained. Sorenson understands that the investigation will also try to determine what the fac ulty and student opinion is on any change. "Consideration of the calen dar is a good plan. There To GI to American GI's. Many of the men become pimps or money changers or black marketeers. Many of the little boys shine shoes, and if you t e 1 1 them no they try to shine them anyway, or trip you as you go past, since they know you could easily afford to let them earn a few piastres if you wanted to. The children who are too small to earn any money of ten just keep their hands out. begging, as long as an Amer ican is in sight. They've learned a few English words, like "Number one!" or "Nu m b c r ten ", "Hello, O.K.!" or "8!" People in Sai gon are used to it. But this is different. This little boy was obviously not of the refugee class. His p a r ents. if they were typical middle-class Vietnamese, had probably taught him that Vice Chancellor Joseph Soshnik said that if the budg et requested by the Univer sity is granted, University students will be paying about 30 to 40 per cent of their ed ucational costs, the remain ing cost being borne by the state. Soshnik said students paid 43 per cent of their educa tional costs in the 1965-66 year. Hardin noted that the $860 .yearly tution and fees paid by nonresident students ac tually exceeds the cost of ed ucation for these students. He told the state officals that this is done purposely to d i s courage outstate enrollments in order to have enough room to take care of native Ne braskans. A University Regents pro fessor, Dr. Royce K n a p p, said a survey hv. made showed that "one out of every five Soshnik made the request of Morrison during the gover nor's hearings on the Univer sity's 1967-69 biennium budg et request. Hardin told the governor that "anything that could be done to hurry along" the ac tion on the request would help the University. It was the second day of hearings on the University's $98.6 million operational budg et request and capital con struction budget request of $32.6 million. During the three hour aft ernoon session, University spokesmen detailed reason's for budget requests for the Educational Television Net work (ETV) and the capital construction budget request. Jack McBride, director of University television and gen eral manager of KUON-TV, said this is the first bienni um that the University has is a great deal of merit for the eleven weeks program, however at the present time the major universities in this area follow a plan such as we presently use," Sorenson continued. "The major question, that will be asked, is how can the University make the ultimate use of its facilities and pro vide the best education to meet the wants of the stu dent." Sorenson said that the ques tion of the summer school program has been under re view for a period of several years by the University and other schools across the coua try. "Every institution is con- Pockets only pariahs beg, especially from Americans. I may have misinterpreted him of course, but I think that what he was doing in those brief moments before he put his hand out, was measuring both of us. He was asking himself if I was the kind of person who would give him some money, and he was wondering if he was the kind of boy who would ask for it. Only for an instant I be came very bitter, then just sad. When I shook my h e a d with a sort of plaintive smile, he stuck his hand in his pock et, lowered his eyes and be gan to waik on, again with out a word. He turned brief ly after several steps, saw that I was watching him, and kept going. I turned back toward the street, and when I looked again he had disap peared around a corner into the crowd. freshman students in Teach ers' College said the cost of their education per year was one fifth of their families tot al income." Dorm Fee Hike In discussing student fi nances, the University spokes men noted that dormitory fees for stduents will go up $75, from $725 to $800 next fall. Tiemann also asked if there is adequate scholarship help available for students. "There is a need in excess of pres ent means," Hardin said. Hardin also said that Un iversity class size is prob ably the largest it has ever been and that students have "mora" outside work to do now than ever before. At the same time, Hardin said the University's educa tional quality is higher than ever before, adding "of course it's very hard to measure." requested funds for closed cir cuit television in the opera tional budget. McBride said the regular ETV budget can no longer handle the mushrooming plans for development and use of closed circuit televi sion in classroom work and said the new funds will be needed for this work. McBrjde said there were 30 separate requests for use of closed circuit television in classes this year and the ETV operations cannot fill them with the existing budget. He cited the economics courses taught by closed cir cuit television as a example of what can be done w, i t h the system. McBride said, that without the closed cir cuit system in economics, five additional instructors would have to be hired to handle student enrollments in the department. Format c e r n e d about the summer period and whether it would better fulfill everyone's needs by using a longer session," he noted. The summer scholl enroll ment on the campus last summer was 6.000 students with Sorenson foreseeing 7. 000 in 1967. The present cal endar is divided into an eight week session (with a maxi mum of 9 hours work), a four week session (maximum of 4 hours), and several three week programs (maxi mum of 3 hours.) The four week session is in August and attracted 300 students last year, but Sor enson believes the enrollment will increase to 500. The August session was or iginally designed for school teachers in the state to meet a certification requirement, and usually consisted of one class. Several years ago, Sor enson said, a course for teachers of driver's education was added. "Recently departments of the University have been try ing to determine what they could offer in this four week period which would be of ad vantage to the general stu dent," he stated. "For several years enroll ment growth for th- summer sessions was at 6 per cent, but last summ it jumped to 16 per cent. We don't sell the concept of vacationing in the mountains while going to school, like Colorado Univer sity does. Rather we sell excellence in the teaching a student receives," he de clared. If an eleven week session was adopted, the interim week after second semester graduation would be main tained. This gives the faculty an opportunity to get grades in and adjust to the summer Cont. On Pg. 3, Col. 7 3 V V
