HE3RASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1967
University of Nebraska
VOL. 90, NO. 79
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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 . .
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'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
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were received for executive
and senate positions.
Four students filed for
ASUN President.
Wesley Edward Cooper is
a graduate student in grad
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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
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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."
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'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
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"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.
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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.
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"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."
