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7T FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1967 The Daily Nebraskan Page 5 gniHiimmiiiiiiiii """"""'"""in ii i iiiiiiiiiini mm mninm mmiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiim iuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!miiiiiiiiiiii City, State, National, World I Week In Review I e s Attorneys To Appeal Ruling On Pope faToneM SDS Interest Should Be Local The chief defense attorney for con demned slayer Duane Earl Pope says he will appeal the latest ruling in the case to the United States Supreme Court. Robert B. Crosby said that the grounds will "be basically the same" as those presented to the United States Court of Appeals in St. Louis which affirmed Pope's conviction and sentence. Crosby commented after visiting Pope that "Duane was ekenly disapointed as any young man would be who is under going this terrible experience." In their argument before the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Crosby and Prof. Wallace Rudolph contended Pope's con stitutional privilege against self-incrimination was violated at his Federal Dis trict Court trial in Lincoln. The Appeals Court opinion rejected all arguments by the defense in Pope's behalf. x However Judge Donald Lay in a con curring opinion said: "I suggest without reservation that this might be an appro priate case for the consideration of cle mency to the extent of reducing the death sentence on the last three counts to life imprisonment." Pope, 24, was tried and convicted on six counts in his Lincoln trial with the jury decreeing the death penalty on counts four, five and six. Pope had pleaded innocent by reason of insanity to bank robbery and murder charges stemming from the Big Springs holdup. The Omaha World-Herald India began a week-1 o n g election Wednesday which was expected to return Prime Minister Indira Gan dhi's Congress Party to power. But its overwhelming 234 seat majority in the lower house of Parliament may be reduced by discontent with skyrocketing food prices and inflation and by political de fections. Nearly 251 million Indians, 75 per cent of them illiterate, Were eligible to choose 520 members of Parliament and 3,560 state legislators for five year terms. The election lasts a week because there are not enough police and election personnel to man all polls. The Lincoln Evening Journal By Toni Victor Senior Staff Writer Individual chapters of Students for a Democrat ic Society (SDS) should con centrate on local issues, ac cording to Thane Croston, former editor of "New Left Notes." Croston, who was ap pointed editor of the na tional SDS newspaper pub lished in Chicago, recently resigned his position and will be residing in Lincoln until fall. "I learned a lot about American society, the pow er elite of military, big busi ness and politics, while I was editor, but at this point I feel I can learn more by being elsewhere than the national office," Croston stated. While editor, Croston he came intimately connected with the New Left move ment, on a national scale. "I don't like the term New Left. I prefer New Radicals, which is primari ly composed of SDS and the Student Non-violent Coordi nating Committee (SNCC)," he explained. SDS started with a mem bership of intellectuals at various colleges across the country, said Croston. The movement then branched out in its efforts because of the inter-related nature of society, Croston Study Shoivs . . . Activists From Rich Homes CIA Subsidized Four Student Groups The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), under fire for subsidizing the na tion s largest college student organia tion was reported Wednesday to have also been slipping cash to three other youth groups two of them foreign based. The Washington Evening Star said that besides the National Student Assn., the CIA had been channeling funds through private foundations to the U.S. Youth Council, the World Assembly of Youth in Belgium and the International Student Conference based in the Nether lands. A congressional investigation was an nounced Wednesday by Rep. Carl Per kins of earlier disclosure that the CIA had pumped millions of dollars over a 15-year period Into the NSA. "Despite large contributions from the CIA, youth and student leaders from this country who have served in execu tive positions in all the groups do not believe their independence of action was affected to any great degree by the cov ert government support," the Star said. Officers of the NSA said most mem bers and officers of student governments on 350 campuses in the country had no previous knowledge of the CIA funding. The clandestine CIA influence on youth groups was condemned by several members of Congress and brought re newed demands for a broader congres sional power to oversee CIA operations. The Omaha World-Herald Truce Ends, Vietnam War Resumes War resumed in South Vietnam at the end of a four day lunar New Year truce marked by 168 American casualties. Ground operations were launched and war planes pounded targets in South Viet nam,, A United States spokesman said "full military activity" was resumed and with in minutes the sound of artillery could be heard in Saigon. Just after the cease-fire ended, B-52 bombers hit a suspected enemy head quarters near Bong Son. As the truce reached its end some United States strategists anticipated that the renewal of the Allied military offen sive may improve the outlook for peace talks. The resumption of the bombings In the opinion of some strategists will con vince Hanoi's leadership hat the United States means business when it says it wants a reciprocal cutback in the North's military activities. The current United States diplomatic probes therefore are directed in particu lar at finding out what price Hanoi is willing to pay once it understands it can not halt the air raids by propaganda. Prime Minister Harold Wilson of Bri tain said that peace in Vietnam "was al most within our grasp" last weekend. "One single, simple act of trust could have achieved it," he said. He added that neither the renewed United States bomb ing of North Vietnam nor the "murder in the south" has ended the possibilities of peace. Wilson indicated that he and Premier Alexei Kosygin of the Soviet Union had been deeply involved in the arrangements that he believed came close to achieving talks and a truce of some kind. The Omaha World Herald READ NEBRASKAN WANT ADS ess en a any car. Speedway Motors 477-4421 ;1 let's H Students most likely to be active in protest come from permissive and affluent families, according to a re cent study by a University of Chicago sociologist. In a study of "the roots of student protest" describ ed by the Collegiate Press Association, Richard Flacks writes, "It seems plausible that this is the first genera tion in which a substantial number of youth have both the impulse to free them selves from conventional status concerns and can af ford to do so." Fo lowing discussions with students and parents, concerning their family backgrounds, political be liefs and values, Flacks formed a hypothesis about protest participants. They find student life highly "rationalized," and are concerned with the im personal and competitive environment. They have been reared in permissive, democratic families which value stand ards other than achieve ments and high status. These values make it harder for students to sub mit to adult authority, re spect status distinctions and accept the prevailing sys tem. They feel less need to accept conformity to "get ahead" and they can afford to be non-conformists, be cause "affluence has freed them from some of the anx ieties and preoccupations which have been the de fining features of Americ can middle-class social character." The university environ ment they live in has chang ed from an atmosphere of "cool" non-coinmitant to concern with direct action. This change has occured as a result of events such as the Southern sit-ins and the demonstrations at House Un-American Activities Committee hearings. In one part of his study, Flacks interviewed 65 stu dents who had participated in a sit-in at the University of Chicago's administration building and 35 students who had participated in a sit-in, as well as a "con trol" sampling of students. From this study, Flacks concludes that student ac tivists differ greatly from non-activists in terms of values and attitudes. He at tributes the uniformity among activist groups to the influences of a sub-culture reflecting shared per spectives. Activists' parents al so "deviate from 'conven tional middle-class' values and attitudes," he says. Activists are not ideo louges they do not trans fer their militance or com mitment to certain issues to an "overarching position," he writes. Flacks cites four traits of "typical" activists: They are high in "ro manticism" "explicity concerned with feeling and passion, immedate and in ner experience." They are also high In "intellectualism" con cern with ideas. Activists are high in "hu manitarianism"; they are "concerned with the plight of others." They are low, however, in "moralism and self-con- trol," which Flacks defines as "value on keeping tight control over emotions, ad herence to conventional au thority and morality, reli ef let's go to McDonald's Filet-O'-Fish A real adventure In good eatln'l ft f look forth Gokltn Archn r McDonald's i. i 865 No. 27th St. N I 5305 "0" St. i f See Pontiac'i Magnificent New F I R E B I R D On Display Now! ALL GRADUATING SENIORS: VANICE P0NTIAC WILL DELIVER A BRAND NEW PONTIAC GTO, TEMPEST, CATALINA or any other model Tiger you choose or a late model used car NOW to qualified seniors for $10.00 down and $10.00 PER MONTH until August when you are settled in your new job. 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When asked what form this social change would take, Croston replied that SDS has no single ideology no specific goals, but cer tain general values that most members adhere to. These values were par tially stated by Nick Egel son, national president, in the Jan. 13 issue of "New Left Notes," Croston added. The values listed by Egel son include: equal power or equal control of power, rel atively equal distribution of goods and services, equal protection by and from laws, equal participation in government. Personal values include: self-determination, honesty, and the ability to provide for the needs of oneself and one's fellows (as opposed to the ability to produce or ac quire material goods). "Being a radical Isn't wearing buttons, but It's a way of life," Croston stated. "I don't think SDS is any panacea, but it's the most realistic group at this point," Croston continued. Along with university re form, SDS chapters should be organizing around local issues because these issues have more interest for the community, he added. New Left Position Changed Since Start At University Of California By Mick Lowe Junior Staff Writer The New Left, if a date is necessary, began in 1960. In that year University of California students marched from the Bay Area in an unsuccessful attempt to save the life of Caryl Chess man, In 1960 the Student Non Violent Coordinating Com mittee (SNCC) was orga nized in Raleigh, North Car olina. For the first time American college students were becoming aware of the problems which existed out side their campuses. In 1960 the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was in its early stages, and the raw materials which were to cause student ex plosions against poverty, racism and American for eign policy were being as sembled. SNCC opened the way for he New Left. In the early sixties college students cap tured the attention of the nation for their civil rights sit-ins and marches in the south, and the nation re acted with approbation. But in 1964 students took actions far more contro versial at Berkeley in the form of the Free Speech Movement. FSM desired to overthrow the dictum that students should be seen and not heard and they were highly successful. The nation was not sure how to react to FSM and its volatile leaders. Time magazine's accounts of ac tion at Berkeley were at times tinged with respect for Berkeley's "Little Na poleon," Mario Savio. At present the Students for a Democratic Society is at the vanguard of the New Left, both at Nebraska and in the national scope. SNCC has declined partly because many of their ob jectives have been realized, and partly because of the statement by former-SNCC president Stokely Carmichacl that the student movement should be an all-Negro un dertaking. Members of SDS are firm ly convinced that wrongs exist in the United States which cannot be overlooked. America's poverty, racial discrimination, and Ameri ca's foreign policy are re garded as roadblocks to a truly "democratic society." At the same time, mem bers of SDS are firmly con vinced the only solution to these roadblocks is radical ism, in the form of a revo lution against the present liberal leaders. The most recent develop ment within SDS is what most members term "the pot left." Pot, slang for marijuana, and other psy chedeiics are changing the approach ot some mem bers of the New Left, ac cording to SDS vice presi dent Dennis Bartels. Because of psychedelic experiences, many advo cates of the New Left are dropping political activities and advocating "Brotherly love." Critics of "the pot left" point out that unless politi cal actions for liberalization of the United State's drug laws are continued, the fed eral government may well liquidate the source of the pot left's inspiration. Campuses at Berkeley, Chicago, Wisconsin, and in the East are the centers of New Left activity. It . is from these campuses that much of the membership, and leadership, of the New Left is drawn. 1 CAREER NEWi HUGHES Aerospace Divisions in Southern California S FROM NEW AND CONTINUING PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS PHOENIX Missile & Fire Control System SURVEYOR Lunar Landing Spacecraft Synchronous Communications Satellites TOW Anti-Tank Missile System ATS (Applications Technology Satellites) AIM-47AAIM-4E Missiles VATE Automatic Checkout Equipment CORDS These example of Hughes Aerospace activities are rep resentative of more than 230 major product and service - capabilities ranging from aerospace vehicles to ASW sys tems. 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