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The Doily Nebraskan
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1967
The Assembly
All year the Daily Nebraskan and stu
dent government leaders have been talk
ing about a Student Bill of Rights.
The Nebraskan has made it clear
since first semester that it feels such a
statement from the students will make the
University more conducive to individual
fulfillment, give the campus a thinking
atmosphere and the students a more re
sponsible, adult role.
We feel that one of the greatest at
tributes in stressing such a proclamation
is that it will cause the average student
to think about his education.
Beginning Sunday every student on
campus will have the chance to contrib
ute and argue his own thoughts and ideas
toward such a document.
This is the main student issue at the
University this year. It's a broad issue
which can include every general gripe or
feeling that students have about the
school.
Every student who has ever felt that
changes should be made to improve the
educational environment at the Universi
tyshould be vitally interested and con
cerned with the Student Bill of Rights
question. Every student must try to take
part in the Assembly, which is open to
everyone, and contribute his own think
ing to what such a document should in
clude. According to a random poll taken
by the Nebraskan Thursday afternoon,
many of the official delegates to the Stu
dent Bill of Rights Assembly know little
about the concept or the specific poinfs
of the original rough draft.
The Daily Nebraskan strongly urges
these students to take their responsibility
as living unit representatives seriously
and to inform themselves on the issues.
If a student feels that part of the pro
posed rough draft of the Bill of Rights
is wrong or should be changed, fine
but he must attend the meetings and
make his ideas heard. In this way the
final document can be supported by all
the students.
The Student Bill of Rights Assembly
must be a success. Students must take
part in it and make their feelings known.
If a large percentage of the average
student body fails to do this then it will
be true once and for all that Nebraskans
just don't care.
Dean Snyder
Helen Snyder, assistant dean of Stu
dent Affairs, said in Thursday's paper
that the proposed Student Bill of Rights
"could be effective" if several changes
are, made in the wording of the original
document.
She further said that students could
improve the Bill of Rights by establish
ing correct means of communication be
tween students and administrators, and
that the bill's goals would not be accom
plished by simply stating opposition to
existing University rules.
The Daily Nebraskan agrees that sev
eral changes need to be made in t h e
wording of the original document. This is
the purpose of the Bill of Rights Assem
bly which starts Sunday. However, in
light of several other comments which
Miss Snyder made, it appears obvious that
she prefers drastic cnange in the mean
ing of the words in the Bill of Rights.
In other words, she is against it.
Perhaps she is against it because she
feels that students have not gone about
securing their goals in the correct man
ner. It is necessary to point out the Bill
of Rights3id not pop up overnight.
It became an issue in last year's Stu
dent Senate election and sincere efforts
to draw up a respectable presentation of
the document and to work with the Uni
versity administrators have been made
ever since. The Student Conduct Com
mittee not only interviewed officials to
get the facts about existing policies, but
they held a series of panel discussions
with the entire Faculty Committee on Stu
dent Affairs in order to explain their
position and negotiate in a reasonable
manner for the desired changes.
Perhaps these discussions could have
been continued but as was pointed out in
this semester's first editorial, they did not
appear to be accomplishing anything but
frustration and delay.
So students are now asking: If stat
ing opposition to existing University rules
will not bring about desired changes,
what will?
Miss Snyder suggested that existing
student bodies are capable of reflecting
the students' opinions and securing chang
es. She states, for instance, that students
already have a right to a voice in the
areas of curriculum and selection of fac
ulty and therefore the section securing
the right to petition for such changes
should be reworded.
A start has been made in that direc
tion through the new Arts and Sciences
Advisory Board. However, the Bill of
Rights would give the students on this
board, and those to be organized soon,
more authority and power in their sug
gestions. ASUN, likewise, does not enjoy the
authority to actually govern the students
and initiate significant changes. The Bill
of Rights would clear up the ambiguous
relationship between the Student Senate
and the Administration.
Other points which Miss Snyder made
indicate that she is not in agreement with
the fundamental basis of the Bill of Rights.
Students are asking for alterations in their
relationship to the Administration be
cause they feel that outdated restric
tions are not in their educational inter
est, and furthermore, are contrary to the
basic rights of citizens of the society at
large.
Miss Snyder may not term her pol
icy "in loco parentis" but when she
speaks in vague terms of "protecting the
student," we wonder what she would call
her policy.
Until the Administration understands
that students want to and deserve to be
treated as adults, a lack of rapport be
tween students and the Administration
will be inevitable.
Visiting Hours
It would be a wonderful thing if any
proposed reforms in our society were
not necessary because so far we have
been able to function without them.
In such a case the University would
not have to worry about the budget,
crowded classrooms or faculty evacua
tion. Students would not need to be con
cerned about building a stronger student
government or securing passage of a
Bill of Rights or working for curriculum
. changes. We have gotten along, somehow,
without them.
The case in issue concerns the pro
posed recognition of informal visiting
hours in University dormitories. Dean
Ross, when interviewed by the Daily Ne
braskan, commented that "coed visiting
hours are obviously not necessary as we
have been able to function without them."
It is difficult to believe that Dean
Ross personally meant this in such a
blatant sense, but unfortunately this type
of thinking exists too much among Uni
versity administrators.
It is obvious that many students feel
that visiting hours are necessary. Argu
ments which soon will be presented to the
Faculty Committee on Student Affairs by
a special Abel Hall committee are well
founded. They claim that students should be
able to entertain members of the oppo
site sex in their rooms because the rooms
are their homes. The statement is ob
vious, but the fact is that home-like con
ditions do not exist. It would be bene
ficial for students who live in a fast
paced community to relax in a semi-private
atmosphere with their friends, at
least one afternoon a week.
Furthermore, the students say that the
atmosphere ia rocs: end floor lounges is
too chaotic to permit concentrated study.
Libraries provide only small consolation,
for they are crowded and often noisy.
Therefore, it seems reasonable to request
visiting hours in rooms for study pur
poses. Another point the students are mak
ing is that "open houses" now exist so
the new policy would merely eliminate
the formality of registering the hours ev
ery time they are sponsored. The mere
fact that the hours must be registered
suggests an air of formality. This is in
herently contrary to the idea of visiting
hours.
The final point is the one which the
Daily Nebraskan wishes to emphasize. In
stead of the Administration asking why
the students want regular coed visiting
hours, the students should be asking, why
not? It is a generally accepted maxim
that the student generation today is more
sophisticated and generally more con
cerned about problems of morality and
personal identity than ever before. The
Administration, then, should not suspect
that the men and women who support
this new proposal are secretly conniving
for wide-open conditions where immoral
ity may run rampant.
On the contrary, the proposal is indic
ative of students' desires to lessen the
grips of parents and prove to themselves
and the watching community that they
are mature enough to handle the more
liberal living conditions with utmost re
gard for the stated purposes.
The proposal is indeed quite moderate
and is qualified by requiring a supervisor
to be present during these hours. The
doors to the rooms where guests are be
ing entertained must be open. Each dorm
would decide if and when the hours were
to be in effect. Furthermore, in accord
ance with the wishes of Dean Ross, Rus
sell Brown and Dean Snyder, the students
are asking for visiting hours just one af
ternoon a week, instead of two.
The Daily Nebraskan applauds the
cdmmlttee for approaching the issue with
discretion and patience, and heartily sup
ports the proposal.
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ud's the word
1
I thought the readers would be inter
ested in a transcript of a tape record
ing taken from the ANUS office, focal
point of the big deals on campus. Only
the names have been garbled to protect
the innocents involved. The following con
versation took place just before the be
ginning of second semester between Tar
ry Sciilaf, president of ANUS, and Rajah,
Do'er, vice-president and Tarry's public
relations advisor.
DO'ER: You know nobody knows
your name.
SCHLAF: No
DO'ER: And cut out that "no" busi
ness. You don't want to be known as a
"no" body, do you?
SCHLAF: No
DO'ER: Look Tarry, sweetheart,
things just aren't as good as they could
be. I had Tom Biggs take a secret tele
phone poll and I hate to tell you what
he found out. I really do. Tom told me
that only four percent of the student body
knew your name and only six percent
knew what ANUS stands for.
SCHLAF: It can't be that bad.
DO'ER: We've got to face facts, baby,
and the fact is that this represents a
drop of three percent from your peak.
Put the shawl back in the drawer and
listen to me Tarry. You can go too far
with the image Abe, er Tarry, and the
campus can just take so much.
SCHLAF: I thought the stovepipe hat
did a lot for my stature and I wasn't go
ing to wear the shawl anywhere but the
office and at meetings with the governor.
Our Man Hoppe-
...BY KELLEY BAKER
DO'ER: Honest Tarry, sometimes I
just don't know what to do with you. The
beard and the wart are fine, but the
rest has to go, especially the part about
the Schlep house being made of logs.
SCHLAF: O.K. Rajah, I guess I've
gone too far. This reading by the fire
every night is giving me eyestrain.
People are beginning to say I'm myopic.
DO'ER: Listen honey, last night just
before I went to bed I came up with this
tremendous idea that is guaranteed to
put you back on top of the pile. We'll
have you write this letter to YAWS (Your
Associated Women Students). We'll ex
plain the basis of our power and ask
where they get theirs.
SCIILAF: Great, Rajah! Meme Razz,
Pam Hotshot, Stiff Timer and the girls
are all sure to put out their own answers
but they'll never do it as a group.
DO'ER: Look Tarry, I think you're
going too far.
SCHLAF: No Rajah, if we want to
improve our image we'll have to go all
the way.
DO'ER: Stop writing on the envelope
Tarry, I've already made up the letter.
You'll love it. It starts "Five score minus
two years ago . . ." And you should hear
the ending, "And that government of Tar
ry, by Tarry and for Tarry shall not per
ish from this campus."
SCHLAF: Perfect, Rajah. Now let's
take some time off. I've got a couple
tickets to a play.
COMMENTATOR: Will history repeat.,
itself?
Drab And The Gooks
Arthur Hoppe
"Henceforth," said Cap
tain Buck Ace with a frown,
"you men will stop refer
ring to our loyal South Viet
namese allies, with whom
we are fighting shoulder to
shoulder f p r freedom, as
'gooks. "
"Oh?" said Private Oliv
er Drab, 378-18-4454, with
curiosity. "Why's that,
sir?"
"Because, soldier," said
Captain Ace patiently,
"General Westmore
land himself has ordered all
commands to help erase the
image of our brave allies as
a bunch of combat-dodging,
duty-shirking, would-be de
serters. He feels this hurts
the war effort."
"He's got a point there,
sir-," said Private Drab,
nodding thoughtfully.
"Such things do."
"And he wants us to learn
more about the Vietnamese
people," continued the Cap
tain, "and get closer to their
soldiers."
"Yes, sir," said Private
Drab, enthusiastically. "I'd
like to volunteer for that,
sir."
"What are you volunteer
ing for, Drab?" asked the
Captain suspiciously.
"Getting closer to their
soldiers, sir. You can
count on me, Captain. I fig
ure the closer I get the saf
er I'll be."
"Damn it, Drab," said
the Captain, "that's just the
kind of talk we're not going
to have any more of. You
are to respect and admire
their fighting qualities. And
that's an order."
Private Drab looked sur
prised. "But I do, sir. Hon
est. I met one once. We were
under pretty heavy fire and
there he was, right at my
side. I never admired a fel
low more."
"That's the talk, Drab. He
put K a good show, eh?"
"Yes, sir. He was lost. So
I said maybe he'd care to
fire a few rounds, seeing as
how it was his war. But he
said I could have it and I
never did see a fellow get
out of there faster. Ever
since, I've kind of thought
of him as a brother."
"A brother?"
"Well, you know how it is
with me, sir," said Private
Drab apologetically. "I
want to be a good soldier,
but I've got this thing about
not wanting to be killed and
I just can't seem to over
come It. But this was the
first fellow I'd met who had
it worse than me. And I
could tell he'd kind of
learned to live with it. So I
couldn't help respecting him
for It. And I'd sure like to
transfer over to his outfit
and . . ."
"Oh, shut up, Drab.
You're just griping because
you heard they've been
withdrawn from combat.
But don't forget, soldier,
somebody's got to die for
their country.
"I g u e s s so, sir," said
Private Drab without much
enthvsiasm. "But I still fig
ure I could learn a lot from
a fellow like that. Say, I got
an idea, Captain. As long as
they're not doing much, why
couldn't we make them our
military advisers?"
"Well, I think the Army's
right about one thing," said
Private Drab later to h I s
friend, Corporal Partz. "We
really shouldn't call them
gooks. It Isn't nice. But what
should we call them?' '
Corporal Partz picked his
teeth reflectively with h I s
trench knife, spat and an
swered the question forth
rightly. "Smart," he said.
I Gale Pokorny's I
I FII'S FACTS I
Nebraska, for some reason or the other, has always
possessed a mania for dedicating a certain day or week
to certain people, groups or causes. Arbor Day, Football
Week and Safety Week are but a few examples. The
most recent instance occurred earlier this week when our
favorite governor appeared on national television proclaim
ing April 1 to be Johnny Carson's Day in Nebraska, an
extremely fitting qesture, I must say.
The N.U. student body it would seem then comes by
this practice naturally. It has proceeded from year to
year utilizing this tendency in almost every conceivable
area, Rush Week, Spring Day, E Week and Hell Week.
This list, too, couldbe almost endless.
It is however, the last example that we here on this
campus should be concerned with or rather with the con
notations that the name implies.
It is high time, indeed it has been so for quite a
while, for the students in Nebraska's institutions of high
er education to raise a little! What this campus needs
is a slightly modified version of Hell Week Yell Week.
No, I am not advocating an unruly march to the
capitol or governor's mansion where both parties may
exchange polite insults and then retreat with nothing
more accomplished than providing the newspapers with
ample opportunity to degrade both.
Nor do I propose that we all grow beards, don baggy
suede sport coats and ill fitting tennis shoes and sit in
the halls of some comfortable building singing songs of
gross impersonality, ugly wars or police brutality.
We have witnessed numerous examples of both kinds
of such action on campuses large and small across the
country and we have seen that neither has ever resulted
in more than increased discontent on behalf of the stu
dent and an increased resistence on the part of those
differing with the student's way of thinking. Again what
arises after the storm is the wide spread generalization
branding any and all college people as little more than
up and coming troublemakers.
The moment is now at hand when we desperately
need to prove the fallacy of this impression if this school
and others like it are to get the public support such
institutions need so badly. For little known to the non
academic world beyond the limits of college campuses,
there exists today a population of American college stu
dents more promising than those ever seen before. With
the advantages of this era and with the knowledge willed
to us by preceding eras, the potential and the capacity
exist to create an educated population that need encount
er no limits.
But the catalyst for this process lies not in the hands
of the student but rather with the general public. What
can we do? We need to make the above facts known.
We need to yell a little but not scream. We need to
convince the state that their conception of a typical col
lege student, i.e. that perpetuated by self appointed and
largely misinformed "experts" such as Al Capp etc. is
wrong.
We are not all ignorant or spoiled and soiled or re
bels as they might think. We are intelligent young
ADULTS capable of any responsibility society wishes to
thrust upon us and more. Those people with whom we
graduated from high school and did not go on to college
are for the most part considered adults in their own right.
The fact that we continued our education should not con
tain connotations of inability to think and react as others
do, and that we are still juveniles.
I propose a gigantic public relations program initiated
by the individual student primarily on a person to person
basis in an effort to present the true image to any people
who oppose supporting these schools in the manner they
deserve and I further propose a "visit" not a march
to Governor Tiemann in a quiet orderly fashion to ex
plain to him the financial plight of the student today let
alone tomorrow if the increased costs are to be supplied
out of the student's pocket. If we ignors the situation
as it stands today, we will live to see the day when
education will indeed be a rich man's luxury,
Heart Is Williin The Brain
Dear Editor:
Would you please give this message to Steve Abbott
Dear Mr. Abbott:
"Let it come from the heart baby, not the brain"
You like that statement, eh Mr. Steve? Has the sweet
ring of truth and all that sort of thing, eh Mr Steve'
Well, let me just add a few little words and then I'll
like it too let it come from the heart baby, not JUST
the brain BUT YOU MUST UNDERSTAND THAT THE
HEART IS WITHIN THE BRAIN. Now I like it too Mr.
Steve.
No, I can't Imagine Tom Jones reading "Playboy".
But perhaps he just might take a peck at the pictures,
don't you think Mr. Steve?
"A sexual person has an alert awareness toward life,
a readiness to love his own mystery." you say Mr.
Steve? Would it not be better to understand as much as
possible of life rather than just be aware of it? Mystery
is a thing to love?
Quite frankly, Mr. Steve, I fear most things that are
a mystery to me. It seems strange does it not Mr. Steve
that two people can be so different; you, who loves in
mystery and I, who loves in understanding. One of us
must be very "different". I wonder which one it is, Mr.
Steve. Really, I do wonder.
I would like to go on, Mr. Steve, but I must get back
to my studies. But first could I ask you to do me a
favor. Please don't use such big words any more. It
takes so long to look them up and everything.
Besides didn't anyone ever tell you that big words
tend to confuse shallow meanings especially if the sub
ject is one of great depth. Ahh, but then maybe vou
were playing a funny on all of us here at the U of N
Maybe you were just testing us to see if we were up
on our vocabulary. Tricky, very tricky Mr. Steve
Oh yes, by the way, Mr. Steve, God didn't start with
sex- In the beginning God created the heavens and
the earth; the earth was waste and void," Book of Gene
sis, first chapter, first sixteen words.
You're so tricky Mr. Steve!
John Bruce Hiller
Feb. 17, 1967
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