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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
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