Free University Class Registration Begins
Feb.
By Cheryl Tritt
"Senior Staff Writr
Registration for the Ne
braska Free University will
be conducted Feb. 6-10 in the
Nebraska Union from 9 a.m.
to 4 p.m. and classes will be
gin the third week in Febru
ary. Classes led by University
faculty members will be held
in classroom buildings. Other
courses will be held in the Ne
braska Union, apartments,
and the student lounges of
some campus religious cen
ters. Twenty-four courses, in
structed by faculty members,
graduates and undergradu
ates or campus organizations,
have been scheduled, accord
ing to Gene Pokorny, a mem
ber of the Coordinating Com
mittee for a Free University.
Newsletters have been sent
to campus living units, I'o
korny added, which explain
the structure and purpose of
the NFU and enumerate t h e
courses which are offered.
The Nebraska Free Univer
sity is autonomous and en
rolled students will not re
ceive credit hours for the
courses.
Pokorny stressed classes
will be structured by leaders
but the students must decide
what areas of the course they
wish to cover and how' the
course will be conducted.
I'okorny added, "CCFU is
simply being a middleman in
bringing the leaders and in
terested students together"
and the committee will not he
involved in the NFU courses
after registration is complet
ed. Pokorny said he could not
estimate the number of en
rollments in the NFU but that
"enough students have shown
interest to believe the univer
sity will be successful."
NFU courses will not dupli
cate any courses being cur
rently taughh at the Universi
ty, Pokorny added.
A course entitled "Intellec
tual Commitment in the Uni
versity," will be. led by Steph
en Milliard, assistant profes
sor of English.
Discussion in this course
will assess the conditions in
t h e University community
which encourage or hinder in
tellectual committment.
Ivan Volgyes, assistant
professor of political sciencs,
will structure a seminar enti
tled "Theories of Commu
nism." which will examine
relevant theories from the
Utopians to modern Chinese
Communism.
"The Psychology of Hu
mor," led by C. K. Gruner,
associate professor of speech,
Mill entail a study of writings
and experimentation dealing
with the various theories of
honor.
The Council on Religion will
instruct a course on the ideas
and implications of modern
theological thought entitled
"Modern Existential Theolo
gians." Theta Nu meedical honor
ary will structure a course
entitled "Human Reproduc
tion," and designed to be a
factual and empirical ap
proach to human reproduc
tion. "The Psychedelic Drugs,"
which will include an exami
nation of the psychedelic ex
perience and acquaint stu
dents with variouies of drugs,
will he conducted by Terry T.
Tilford, a University gradu
ate student.
A complete roster of NFU
courses will appear in the
Daily Nebraskan Thursday.
Pokorny added that the coor
dinating committee is plan
ning to expand the Nebraska
Free University into different
areas.
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1967
The Daily Nebraskan
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ASUN Challenges Authority Of AWS;
Disagreement On Rights, Regulations
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By Eileen Wirth
News Assistant
Disagreement with ASUN's
position and a desire to show
the ASUN exactly where
AWS derived its powers
characterized the reaction of
the AWS Board to ASUN
President Terry Schaaf's let
ter questioning the authority
of AWS.
Nancy Coufal maintains
that the AWS derives its pow
er from the Board of Regents
as a student advisory board
in controling housing and
women's hours.
Pam Hcdgcock, president
of AWS, said that although
she did not entirely under
stand the letter, the implica
tion seemed to be that the
ASUN was asking the AWS to
Public Speaks . .
say exactly what tlicy are.
Mi mi Rose commented
that the problem grew out of
the desire of ASUN to "just
make everything student."
"They don't want to make
a distinction between men
and women," she added.
Andrea Warren claimed
that ASUN's letter grew out
of the discussion of a Student
Bill of Rights. Since the
ASUN has supreme power on
campus, they feel that the
AWS should be under them.
The feeling of ASUN
seemed to be that AWS be a
subcommittee of ASUN.
Miss Warren continued. Any
thing that AWS decided
would be subject to Senate
approval and he AWS would
not have legislative mitia-
RECENT STATEMENTS ... by Gov. Norbert Tie
mann indicate that University students may soon be pay
ing higher tuition rates.
Tuition Increase
Depends On Budget
Budget Hearings Set
tive. Instead it would serve
as an advisory committee,
she concluded.
Miss Coufal said she felt
that if the AWS would turn
over its powers to the ASUN,
predominantly male, women
students would actually not
be as well represented as
they are by the present AWS
Board.
She also questioned the
qualifications of a predomi
nately male student group
to regulate women's hours
and rules.
Miss Warren said that the
decision of the ASUN Exec
Board to write the letter grew
out of the free housing clause
in the Student Bill of Rights.
In addition, many members
of ASUN do not believe that
AWS is a representative
body. They question whether
the AWS is really represent
ing women students., They
would like to keep pushing
the cause of women living
off campus, she continued.
Helen Snyder, associate
dean of Student Affairs, said
AWS derived its power from
the administration. In
schools which have no AWS,
the administration regulates
women's hours and bousing.
She stated that the AWS
has no right to give away a
delegated power.
Another board member
said that someone had to
regulate women's hours and
that men do not understand
the problems of women's liv
ing units.
Miss T i n a n commented
that AWS's new election pro
cedure should eliminate rep
resentation problems.
A number of members
doubted that ASUN appreci
ates the amount of work AWS
does. Miss Warren replied
that most of tne ASUN Ex
ecutive Board thinks that
most of it is unnecessary.
Miss Rose said that since
AWS has power delegated
from the administration that
Bv Julie Morris
Senior Staff Writer
University tuition r a t n s
may go up next fall depend
ing upon the state budget
recommendations made with
in the next month by Gov.
Norbert Tiemann.
At a press conference ear
ly last week Tiemann said,
"Right now it looks as if
there will be some increase"
in the tuition rates for the
University and the four state
colleges.
If the governor recom
mends a large cut in the Uni
versity's budget request, he
indicated he will probably
present a request that the
tuition rates be increased.
The request would need the
approval of the Legislature
and the University Board of
Regents.
At a second press confer
ence last week, the governor
said the budget recommenda
tions he makes, including the
recommendations for the Uni
versity's 1967-69 budget, will
be "far less than requests."
"We will cut out all the fat
of these budgets," Tiemann
said.
He warned that a change
in the state tax laws "does
not mean wild spending."
The state agencies budget
recommendations will be
"far less than the maximum
amount of funds available
from taxes. Just because
the money could be avail
able doesn't mean we're go
ing to use it," he said.
The University has re
quested authorization for an
operating budget of $98.6 mil
lion for the upcoming bien
nium. More than half, $67
million, of the funds would
come from state tax reve
nues. The request represents a
91.48 increase over the
budget the school is operating
on this biennium.
In addition to the operat
ing funds request, the Re
gents also submitted a re
quest for a capital construc
tion budget that exceeded $20
million.
When the University budg
et request was made public
last September, Chancellor
Clifford Hardin said the budg
et was an attempt to "catch
up and keep-up" conditions
due to poor dollar support.
Tiemann said last week
that he will not try to create
a catch-up state budget. "We
cannot hope to catch up in
one biennium the inadequa
cies of previous bienniums,"
he said. A number of state
agencies, Tiemann said, have
submitted budget requests
that propose a catch-up in
one biennium.
At former Gov. Frank Mor
rison's hearings on the Uni
versity budget in December,
Tiemann questioned Chancel
lor Clifford Hardin about a
tuition increase.
The public hearing on the
University's 1967-69 operating
and capital construction
budget requests has been set
for the week of Feb. 13.
The hearings will be con
ducted by the Legislature's
Budget Committee, headed
by Chairman Richard Marvel
of Hastings. The committee
will make a recommendation
on the requests to be pre
sented on the Legislative
floor for discussion vote.
The public hearing is to
give supporters and oppo
nents of measures a chance
to air their views before the
Budget committee. Universi
ty officials will be appear
ing before the committee to
justify the budget requests.
The University has re
quested a $98.6 million op
erating budget request and a
capital construction budget
of more than $20 million. Uni
versity officials have already
appeared before former Gov.
Frank Morrison and Gov.
Norbert Tiemann in similar
public hearings on the budget
requests.
Tiemann will be preparing
an executive budget to be
presented to the Legislature,
but this is not expected to be
made public until mid-February.
University Regents and ad
ministration officials have
said that the school must
have all of the funds asked
for if the University is ex
pected to operate "as an in
stitution of higher learning
should."
At the governor's budget
bearings, Chancellor Clifford
Hardin warned that the Uni
versity "may begin to slip
and slip rapidly" if the school
does not get significant in
creases in state support.
Final Unicameral action
on the University and other
state budgets will probably
not come until late June or
early July, according to Hardin.
Schaaf Requests AWS
To Re-Evaluate Purpose
AWS President Pam
Hedgecock said Tuesday a
"statement from the AWS
board will be forthcoming,"
in answer to a letter from
Terry Schaaf, ASUN presi
dent requesting AWS to justi
fy its sole use of "legislative
initiative in the area of wom
en's regulations."
The letter stated that as an
organization "undergoes
structural change, an evalua
tion of purpose and position
should accompany this
change."
Presently it seems "there
is an overlapping of interest
between those responsibilities
assumed by the AWS and the
authority inherent in the
structure of the ASUN," the
letter continued.
Schaaf also said in the let
ter that a statement of pur
pose from the AWS board
members would be "benefi
cial to those who take part in
the upcoming constitutional
convention and to those of us
who will be considering ap
proval of the new constitu
tion." Miss Hedgecock said the
AWS is currently organizing
a constitutional convention
for next fall to be "apart and
separate from the AWS board
with the goal to re-define the
purposes of AWS."
Schaaf declined furth
er comment saying that the
letter spoke for itself at present.
LB45 Would Liberalize Abortion Laws
By Julie Morris
Senior Staff Writer
A bill that would allow le
gal abortion in Nebraska in
certain cases moved to t h e
Legislature's general file
Tuesday on a five to two
committee vote.
The bill, LB45, was intro
duced by Scottsbluff Sen.
Terry Carpenter. Carpenter
said his bill is indicative of
a "trend all over the coun
try" toward liberalizing abor
tion laws.
LB45 provides that woman
could have an abortion legally
performed if ". . .there is
substantial risk that contin
u a n c e of the pregnancy
would gravely impair t h e
physical or mental health of
the mother, or that there is
a substantial risk that the
child would be born with
grave physical or mental
defect..."....
The actual abortion could
not be performed without con
sultation of four physcians,
the man who would perform
the operation and three
others.
The physicians would need
to file a certificate in writing
stating their belief in the
justifying circumstances with
the licensed hospital previous
to the performance of the
abortion under the bill's pro
visions. The bill also makes it a fel
ony to perform extra-legal
abortions in the state. It de
signed as an amendment to
the present state a bortion
laws. The present maximum
penalty for extra-legal abor
tion in the state is a year in
the county jail or a fine of
$500.
The present law makes no
provision for abortion unless
it is necessary to preserve
the life of the mother.
A representative of the
four Catholic bishops of Ne
braska said that the bishops
opposed the bill for three
reason:
"The broadening of the cur
rent statued as envisioned by
LB45 gives legal endorsement
in some instances to a d i s
regard for the sanctity of hu
man life. LB45 violates the
inalienable right to life of the
unborn child. LB45 proposes
a solution to a social problem
bv merely treating a symp
tom." Carpenter responded to the
statement saying, "I don't
think I'd be wrong in saying
that those opposing this bill
would oppose any bill no mat
ter what its wording or con
text." The senator said the or
ponents of the bill were
attempting to place their
beliefs and values on the rest
of society. "If your belief pre
cludes you from using the
law don't use it," he said.
The Rev. Mr. Raymond
Hain, director of the Newman
Student Center, attended the
hearing but did not speak.
Hain said Carpenter's attack
on the Catholic representatives
was unfair because the bish
op's statement made it clear
they do not intend to "legislate
morality" but to merely ex
press a view.
Father I Iain said he per
sonally objects to the bill be
cause it "isn't that clear" in
stating whether a physician
would be liable or not if he did
not perform an abortion in a
case which met the prescribed
circumstances of the law.
He said that if a phy
sician failed to advise a wo
man of detrimental circum
stances surrounding her
pregnancy which would legal
ly qualify for an abortion be
cause of moral reasons, he
might be held criminally li
able. Carpenter said there are
"60 some thousand chil
dren who are deformed and
whose parents are under the
oxcruiting pain that would
come with these deformities."
He said there are also "hun
d r e d s and thousands" of
rapes.
The bill. Carpenter said,
would provide that these de
formed children would not
need to be born and that a
rape victim could have an
abortion performed and avoid
the mental anguish of the
child's birth.
The hearing Tuesday was
the second public hearing on
the bill. The committee hear
ing had been continued from
a previous one two weeks be
fore to allow proponents to
prepare amendments to t h e
bill.
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STATE SENATORS . . . confer over Legislative bills,
nen. Terry Carpenter (above) is champion bill sponsor
for the session with more bills introduced than any other
Legislator.
it might be something other
than a student organization,
and therefore not under the
power of ASUN.
Miss Warren stated that
ASUN derives most of its
powers over other student or
ganizations from its power to
freeze an organization's
funds.
Miss Hedgecock concluded
the discussion by stating that
she would invite Schaaf and
the ASUxN Exec Board to the
next AWS Board meeting be
cause the letter she had re
ceived was not clear.
Drop-Add
Drudgeries
Plotted Out
Registration continues as
students make their way
through the current Drop
and Add period which will
end February 6.
Drops and Adds may be
processed in the Admini
stration Building for a $2.50
fee. No adds will be ac
cepted after February 6,
and no drops will be taken
after February 24.
Students wishing to add a
course must check with
their adviser and secure
their dean's signature if
the college requires it. The
completed form should
then be taken to the Mili
tary and Naval Science
Building. An admission
card will then be given to
the class the student is add
ing. Students wishing to drop
a course also must check
with their adviser and ob
tain a dean's signature if the
college requires it. Drop
forms are to be left in
Room 209, Administration
Building. Classes may be
dropped without a grade
lor the first four weeks of
the semester.
No fee is charged to stu
dents changing sections.
Standard Drop and Add
forms should be used; sig
natures of adviser and dean
are not required. Section
changes should be made at
the M and N Building, class
space permitting. Requests
will not be accepted for
reasons of personal conven
ience only.
Definite figures of second
semester enrollment will
not be available for anoth
er week.
1FC President
Elcetion Slated
The election of the new
president will dominate the
agenda of Wednesday's In-
terfraternity Council (IFC)
meeting, according to
President Gary Larsen.
One candidate for presi
dent, Charles Baxter, Delta
Sigma Phi, has been nomi
nated. Gene Hohensee. Del
ta Upsilon, has also indicat
ed that he will run, Larsen
said.
"Members will have an
opportunity to make addi
tional nominations from the
floor," Larsen said. "Each
candidate will deliver a ten
minute speech and answer
questions prior to the balloting."
