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HE3RASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY LINCOLN, NEBRASKA MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1967 University of Nebraska VOL. 90, NO. 79 'I 1 VI All ' ASUN APPLICATIONS . . . Election Commissioner Larry Johnson reviews applications for Student Senate. One hundred and fifteen students have applied for election from the various colleges. 115 Applications Received For Student Senate Posts One hundred and nine students filed for the three executive and 35 senate positions for the April 12th elections. A total of 115 applications ASUN Caucus . . sr& 7 t Kignts 'Is Not The caucus held by 19 ASr." senators prior to Wednesday's Senate meeting gave members "holding simi lar ideas an opportunity to discuss the implications of certain parts of the Bill of Rights." according to Sen. Curt P.romm. ASUN Wednesday approved all 16 articles of the Bill of Rights to be placed on the senate election ballot April 12. Bromm said the caucus was not "a secret meeting or an attempt to tell people how to vote," but there were sim ply several senators w h o "had not had an opportunity to discuss the Bill of Rights." Who Called Meeting? ASUN First Vice-President Roger Doerr said "it is diffi cult to pinpoint exactly who called the meeting." and the idea for the meeting "origi nated in several different places Tuesday." Several senators had not attended all the Student As sembly meetings, he con tinued, "and some senators felt they would be voting in an uniformed manner" unless they discussed the 'Bill of Rights more thoroughly. He said most of the mem bers of the Student Conduct Committee, which drafted the Bill of Rights were not in formed of the caucus because "it was a question of who was up on the bill and who was not." Schulze Invited Dick Schulze. chairman of the Student Conduct Commit tee, was asked to attend the meeting at the last minute, Doerr said, bf-'use "Schulze Is the exD. on the Bill" and could explain it the most ad equately." Schulze said he was not in formed of the caucus until 30 minutes before it began. "I had the distinct impres sion the purpose of the meet ing was to discuss the Bill of Rights with a group of sen ators who were interested, not in my opinion of the dif ferent articles, but interested in the content of the Bill," he explained. Didn't Decide on Vote He added that the senators "didn't all promise to vote one way or the other on the articles," and that he had no intention of "forcing his opin ions upon the senators." Twila Andreasen, a senator who attended the caucus, said at the meeting "we were try ing to look at things not evciybody agreed on" and to insure that each senator un derstood for what he was vot ing. Also attending the meeting, Sen. Kancy Probasoco said i i ! aBIW it were received for executive and senate positions. Four students filed for ASUN President. Wesley Edward Cooper is a graduate student in grad n ii nin uiscusswn Secret Meeting9 "it. was just : a meeting of friends to discuss the Bill of Rights and there wasn't sup posed to be anything secre tive about it." Student Conduct Committee Sen. Nesha Neumeister said she thought the Student Con duct members had been con tacted but hadn't been able to attend the meeting. She added she didn't under stand "why the objections brought up at the caucus had not been brought up in the Sunday assembly meetings." Claiming the "people's will was subverted by this secret meeting." ASUN presidential candidate, Rich Thompson said "Hitler burned down the Reichstag because he couldn't get majorities, but ASUN has to have secret meetings." Sen. Mike Nerud. a mem ber of the Student Conduct Committee said he was con tacted but he had been un able to attend the meeting. Meeting Beneficial Another member of the Student Conduct Committee, Mike Jess said the meeting was beneficial and after the meeting the senators "were somewhat in agreement about how we felt" about the dif ferent articles. The majority of the Student Conduct Committee, however, expressed 'strong disapproval because they were not in- . informed of the meeting. 'Mystified' Over Meeting Sen. Jerry Olson said he was "mystified" with the "whole idea of calling a sec ret meeting of senators." He argued he could not understand why the "Senators felt they were licens-ed to go against the voice of the stu dents which was expressed in the (student) Assembly." "I personally don't object that the senators wanted a change in the Bill." he said, "but the manner of a secret meeting, excluding the Con duct Committee members, disturbs me. Secret meetings and alliances are not in the best interest of the student body." he added. Disapproval Expressed Also expressing disapproval of the caucus was Conduct Committee member, Kris Bit ner. She voiced disappointment in tire Senators "who formed the meeting and especially in those who called the meeting because they wanted to dis miss the Bill and bring up their objections to the Bill in secret." Senators had the opportuni ty to raise disagreements with the different articles in the Student Conduct meetings 1 """mm' V- uate college with a 3.66 average on the Students for a Democratic Society ticket. Ron Pfeifer is a junior in Jump to Page 7, Col. 1 .ani at the Student Assembly, she said. Should Attend Assembly She argued that the Sena tors who attended the caucus "to raise their objections" to the Bill did not "care enough to attend the required three out of four Student Assembly meetings with the exception of Dave Snyder." Miss Bitner fouiid it "ques tionable" that the senators "would take the word of each other before they would con sult and question the majority' of the members of the Con duct Committee." Conduct Committee mem ber Sue Phelps stressed that senators who objected to the Bill should have asked people to the meeting who "were most interested in the Bill and could have upheld their positions and considered loop holes" not previously con sidered. A political caucus is accept able, she said, but "it should have been made public so aii senators could have decided if the nature of the meeting demanded their attendance." 3 - H 'Fatal Friday' Predictions Fail By Mick lowo Senior Staff Writer "Fatal Friday" has come and gone, ai.d most students seem to have survived the "fatal throat disease" that was to have swept the campus last week, leaving one half of America's coed population dead in its wake. Or at least that's the way rumor had it. Jean Dixon, the self-styled prophetess who predicted President Kennedy's assas sination and the death of the three Apollo astronauts, somebody said, predicted that one-half of all the college students in the country would be dead by Friday. Prediction? No one knows how the rumor started not even Jean Dixon. When a University student called her long-distance in Wash ington D. C, to find out the exact predic tion, Miss Dixon's personal secretary replied, "What prediction?" The Nebraska student explained about one-half of the .college students catching etc., and Dixon's' man replied that he had heard the rumor, too, but there wasn't any thing to it. , i Letters, Calls As a matter of fact, he said, he had been receiving letters and phone calls about it all week long, but Miss Dixon hadn't made the saturnine prediction. Nevertheless, many coeds were running scared last week. The Lincoln Star received a telephone ell Tuesday from an NU sorority girl who said that she heard 18 girls had already died in California, and the mysterious infec tion was rampant at Hastings College. Pfeifer, 15 Senate Candidates Resign PSA Following Split A split developed in the Party for Student Action (PSA) late last week which resulted in the resignation of Ron Pfeifer, PSA's vice pres idential candidate and 15 Senate candidates. Pfeifer has since become a candidate for president on another executive slate, which includes Jerry Olson for vice president, and Liz Aitken for second vice presi dent. As a result of Pfeifer's de parture. Mimi Rose has been slated to run on the PSA ticket for second vice presi dent and Gene Pokorny has been reslated as the first vice presidential PSA candi date. 5 Incumbents Withdraw Included in the 15 Senate candidates that broke with the PSA party along with Pfeifer are five incumbent senators. They are Olson, Susie Phelps, Cheryl Adams, Kris Bitner and Nesha Neu meister. Pfeifer said that he had left the PSA Party because "after the voting on the Bill of Rights Wednesday, there were diferences between my thinking and the elite of the PSA." "A political party cannot tell its' members what to think, much less how to vote. Because I could ;.ot declare myself in favor of the amend ment 5, I was found unac ceptable to the high com mand of the rSA." Pfeifer continued. Pfeifer stated that he felt students should state their views by their voting on April 12. He added Dint he believes no political party could or should demand one viewpoint from its' members "as PSA planned to do on the amend ment to Amendment V. Pfeife.- Disagrees Dick Schulze and dene Po korny, the presidential and first vice presidential candi dates on the PSA ticket, said that Pfeifer's decision to re sign from the party was due to a disagreement on Amend ment 5 of the proposed Bill of Rights. Schulze and Pokorny stated that Pfeifer voted against the students being given a choice between the alternate and the original Amendment 5. Pokorny and Schulze ex plained that they supported the alternative because: "It agreed with the PSA plat form which states that stu dents have a voice in the de cision making process of the University. 'Provides Flexibility' "The alternate 5 provides flexibility needed to change a complex housing policy that Furthermore, three girls in her sorority house had temperatures of 103 and had the Star heard anything about California or Hastings? The Star, like Miss Dixon, it seems, were about the last people to get the word. Fascinating Forms The rumor took fascinating forms and was second in conversational popularity only to Irma La Douce's sidewalk chalk signs. Sometimes, just girls were going to die. Sometimes just boys, and sometimes both. The fraction also varied, ranging from a trivial third to an extreme three-fourths. Some students theorized that the Ad ministration started the whole thing in an effort to end the housing problem by the power of suggestion. Maybe if everyone thought they were going to die they really would leaving plenty of dorm space tor everyone. In case you're wondering Student Health reported that physical health cases were "about normal" last week, with no marked increase. Extended Date But don't heave that sigh of relief just yet. The latest rumor is extending the date past last Friday, maybe even until next Friday. Since this kind of thing could go on for ever, the Daily Nebraskan is officially mak ing a counter-rumor-prediction. One third to three fourths of the malefemale (take your pick), college popu lation will not die of a throat disease by next Friday. And that, we hope, is that. represents such interests as students needs and desires. Regents' By-laws and legal responsibilities, educational objectives, and parental con cerns." "The original Amendment 5 is stated in absolute, rigid, legalistic terms. Without le gal assistance and without the cooperation of the faculty and Board of Regents, how can the original one be imple mented "If it cannot be implement ed, what is its purpose?" Schulze and Pokorny stated that Pfeifer's position in re gard to the two choices on 5; "he said that he preferred not to take a stand during the campaign on either one." Mimi Rose was selected to run as the second vice presi dential candidate, according to Schulze and Pokorny be cause she supports alternate number 5 and understands the implied differences be tween the original and the alternate." Her selection was al so based on her support of the entire Bill of Rights and her experience on the Stu dent Senate. "She had voted against Amendments 3 and 6, but dis cussion revealed that she had not completely understood the meaning and implications of the amendments," they ex plained. 'Party Inconsistent' Olson said that he felt the party because of its "incon sistencies which may be sum med up as: a progressive platform, a moderate stand on Amendment 5 and the ultra-conservative vice presi dential candidate." Olson stated that the PSA party leadership is too au thoritarian, and that if he had remained with the party he would have had to "com promise" his principles. He criticized Dick Schulze, the PSA presidential candi date, for "amending the Bill of Rights against the vote of the assemblies, the voice of the students." Olson added that he felt that Pfeifer and himself were included in the PSA party "only for our vote-getting abil ity; we were not included in any policy-making decisions." Disagree With Schulze Aitken said that where she had once agreed with Schul Percy: Induction Time Option Needed By Potential Draftees "The Republican Party is coming up with constructive, ze, she felt that he had changed his opinions recently and that Pfeifer's views cor respond better to those of her own. "It would seem as if Schul ze has sold out the student's interest in the Bill of Rights for the support of a few in dividuals in the election," she stated. Bitner Resigns Kris Bitner, an incumbent senator, explained her resig nation from the PSA on the basis of two ideas. First, she stated that she was opposed to the "insta bility and lack of courage shown by the PSA's leader." I distrust people when they say they believe one thing to me and say something else to another or when they are willing to compromise their beliefs," Miss Bitner ex plained. "I think that Dick Schulze has changed many of his opinions on the Bill of Rights and that he was willing to go behind the work of the com mittee and the assembly in a secret session Tuesday night," she continued. Her second reason is that she feels PSA to be a farce. "I think the party is merely a front to get big names be hind Schulze." Phelps' Objections Susie Phelps, also an in cumbent senator, criticized Schulze for not confiding in the Student Conduct commit tee about the Bill of Rights. "He was persuaded by oth er persons, who evidently have a vested interest in his election, to abruptly change his mind about the-meaning of the "document,'' Miss Phelps explained. "I also am upset with the selection of Mimi Rose. If the party cannot tolerate any thing less than absolute agreement, then we are to assume that the members are all indeed quite skeptical about any student freedoms, as Miss Rose has been all year.'' She noted that she feels that PSA does not mean to "junk the Bill of Rights." She added that Article V will become a false issue." "The difference of the groups is a point of philoso phy and regardless of who wins, the goals will be worked for in the same way through slow negotiations because imaginative solutions which will catapult the party to vic tory in 1968," stated Senator Charles H. Percy at the an nual Republican Founders Day. Percy spoke to Nebraska Republican leaders Saturday in Hastings, Neb. He cited new Republican approaches for efficiency in government, in tax sharing, job training, emergency strike legislation, and educa tional tax credits. Draft Commission Percy spoke of the Pres ident's Commission on the draft as being a highly quali fied group capable of re-thinking the problems involved. He pointed out, however, that the President has failed to deal with many of their proposals and has left the job ud to Congress. Expedient Inductions Senator Percy said that he would like to have the draft "pursue a course of action which would allow maximum flexibility as to the time when the young men of t h e nation would like to serve in the armed .services. More use of an option as to when the men would serve would be much more advantageous both to the individual and to the services." he stated. If one could choose to serve first or get his education first with no exceptions to this choice. In the event of an there really is no other way," Miss Phelps concluded. Nesha Neumeister, an in cumbent senator, stated that she could no longer give her support to PSA after t h e changes in party leadership which took place. New PSA Ticket The candidates on the PSA ticket are: Dick Schulze, president; Gene Pokorny, vice-president; Mimi Rose, second vice-president. From Arts and Sciences senate candidates, PSA has slated Kathy Augustin, Ron Alexander, Phil Bowen, Bob Bartee, John Jorgensen, Bill Mobley and Mark Schreiber. Candidates from Agricul ture and Home Economics are: Craig Dreeszen. Chuck Juricek and John Wirth. Business Administration PSA candidates from Busi ness Administration are Jim Ludwig and Tom Morgan. Slated from Engineering are Mike Jess, Dennis Schulte, Bob Peterson and Jim Wobig. On the PSA ticket from Graduate College are Phil Boardman, Roger Lott and Tom Greer. Teachers candidates on the PSA ticket are Jane Klimes, Barb Doerr, Helen Larsen, Kent Hobert and John Hall. pillllllMllllllimillNlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllliyj Amendment Put On Ballot Included on the ASUN ballot April 12, will be I the following amendment I to the ASUN. constitu- I tion: f Each student shall have the right to choose I his living environment, f According to Larry I Johnson, ASUN Electoral Commissioner, the pro- posed amendment will i be placed on the ballot as f a result of a petiton re- I questing its inclusion. f The petition met the ASUN Constitutional re- quirement of including signatures of 5 per cent of the University stu- dents. It will be voted on separately from the pro- posed Bill of Rights constitutional amend- I ments. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiis "all-out," than all parties in volved would benefit, he 'said. Consular Treaty When asked about his ideas regarding the passage of the Consular Treaty with t h e Soviet Union, Percy said that this treaty and those similar to it can help build the necessary bridge between the United States and t h e Soviet Union. This will help the United States show the Soviets the "advantages of a govern m e n t of laws and not of men." A nnn-prolifcration treaty was cited by the Illinois Senator as being perhaps the next step in bringing about such an understanding. Partnership Senator Percy urged the GOP to initiate a new era o; public-private partnership in such areas' as home own ership for low income fam ilies and educational televi sion. , The Illinois Senator advo cated tax credits for parents who are paying their chil dren's college expenses as well as tax credit for those who are paying their own way. Percy has already in troduced bills into Congress to bring these changes about "V. the Republican Party reamins responsible to t h e individual's needs without destroying the individual," Percy said, "and if it pro vides sensible and sensitive solutions, then the Republi can Party can once again be the nation's majority party."
