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The University-Omaha Uni
versity merger bill was
moved off select file by law
makers, reversing a Monday
vote to hold it there.
Monday senators had voted
22-19 to postpone action on the
bill, LB736, until another bill
creating a state coordinating
committee on higher educa
tion had been acted on.
Final Vote Near
The bill should be ready for
a final vote by next Wednes
day, according to Sen. Harold
Simpson, chairman of the leg
islative Enrollment and Re
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DISPLAYS . . . about the Nebraska Foundation, a model of future University expan
sion and slides about the Foundation and benefits it has contributed to the University
are presently in the Art Gallery section of the Nebraska Union, according to Gail
Skinner, Builders Seed chairman. The exhibition is part of the Nebraska Foundation
Week which will continue until Friday.
VP Candidates Reiterate Positions
By CHERYL TRITT
Senior Staff Writer
Senate vice-presidential
hopefuls reiterated their cam
paign stands Tuesday at a
debate sponsored by the Un
ion Talks and Topics Com
mittee. First vice-presidential can
didates, Liz Aitken; George
Olivarri, of the SDS party;
and Gene Porkorny, of the
PSA party, discussed their
views on the role of education
at the University.
Expand Honors Program
Liz Aitken suggested an ex.
pansion of the freshman hon
ors program which "is often
limited to students in Arts
and Sciences."
ASUN could help improve
the Career Scholar program,
she said, and increase the
amount of publicity students'
receive about the program.
She commented that the
Executive slate has proposed
a college of independent think
ing in which a student would
not attend regular classes for
a year.
Instead "a student would
hold regular sessions with a
faculty specialist in his field,
who would direct his reading
and aid him in his indepen
dent study and research."
By "programming through
ASUN," Gene Pokorny said
"we can make progress" in
the quality of education at
the University.
Advisory Boards
He cited as an example the
Advisory Boards which have
been set up in Teachers
College, College of Arts and
Sciences and the College of
Agriculture and Home Eco
nomics. Maintaining that the present
Merger
view Committee which is pre
paring the bill for the final
vote.
The Monday hold vote was
motioned for by Omaha Sen.
Henry Pedersen, Jr., whose
bid to kill the bill last week
lost 21-25, after which the law
makers approved it 29-19 in a
general file vote.
The Tuesday motion to
move LB736 from select file
was made by Waverly Sen.
Jerome Warner. It passed
unanimously.
Pederson's Opposition
Pedersen, whose legislative
1967
advisory program is "inade
quate," Pokorny suggested
that University senior students
counsel freshmen instead of
faculty members.
Student government, how
ever, "must step in and take
the role of implementing pro
grams," he said and "PSA.
will do this."
Housing Issue
George Olivarri, disagreed
that the housing amendment
"is the major issue in t h e
campaign." He added that the
housing policies "are indica
tive of what is going on in
education."
Students are the "most in
terested party in the Univer
sity," he said, "and should
have the voice in the Uni
versity policy-making deci
sions and in determining their
private lives."
He argued that the Univer
sity "is making replacement
parts for society."
The University should per
form services "for the indivi
dual, not society," he said.
Role of Students
Discussing the role of stu
dents in ASUN, second vice
presidential candidate, Mimi
Rose said "students should
have a right to participate in
any policy-making decisions.
Jerry Olson, second vice
presidential candidate,
stressed that if ASUN serves
no other role, "it has to be
meaningful."
He said the executive slate
"envisions ASUN as an in
tegrator of the Campus,"
which will bring together all
University organizations "in
to a united body."
Task Forces
If ASUN should face a crisis
next year, Olson suggested
Bill Moved Off File; Vote
district includes the OU cam
pus, has opposed the bill on
the basis that it was poorly
drawn, that the proposal had
not been thoroughly studied
and that OU's financial prob
lems were due to poor ad
ministration. Pedersen said Monday that
action on the bill should wait
until a state coordinating
board had been established
aand had studied the propos
al. If the board approved the
idea, Pedersen said, he would
personally introduce a mer
ger bill.
the Senate "form task
forces," consisting of two
people from representative
organizations such as IDA,
IFC, or AWS, to solve the
problem.
"A new student is emerging
on the campus," he said, but
the educational methods are
not evolving rapidly enough.
ASUN should "call out
moded educational methods
into question," he added.
Referring to the Tombsone
Epitaph, a campus publica
tion which was first published
Monday, Miss Rose said the
paper was not related to the
PSA.
She added although the
paper "had some value," th
were some statements with
which she disagreed.
Pokorny said the paper
contained "parts that needed
to be said "and others which
didn't need to be included."
He added that the publica
tion was not related to PSA.
Later he commented that
as a former columnist of the
Daily Nebraskan, five of his
columns were altered before
publication. '
'Political Machine'
Discussing the local SDS
chapter, Olivarri insisted the
group "is not a well-oiled
political machine."
"What the group wants is
the student to have a voice
in what is going on about
him," he added.
"We should try to work
within student government,"
he said, but if change does
not result from these meth
ods, '.'then we should organ
ize something on the outside
which will eventually be the
voice of the students."
The coordinating commis
sion bill, LB661, is being held
by the Education Committee.
The committee faces debate
on a number of amendments
to the measure before report
ing it to the floor or taking
other action.
LB736's chief sponsor, Sen.
Terry Carpenter, objected to
Pedersen's contention that
the merger proposal had not
been sufficiently studied.
Regents Behind Merger
The merger proposal origi
nally grew out of talks be
tween University and OU of
University of Nebraska
Commission Anticipates 6,000
Votes At ASUN, Board Election
A turnout of 6,000 voters is
anticipated Wednesday, ac
cording to Electoral Commis
sion chairman Larry Johnson,
when University students go
to the polls to select ASUN
representatives and college
Advisory Board delegates for
next year.
Also facing students is the
controversial Student Bill of
Rights, which ASUN voted
March 15 to place on the Sen
ate election ballot for student
approval.
Voting booths will be lo
cated in the Nebraska Union
and in Love Library from
8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.
East Union Voting
The East Union voting
booth will be open from 8 a.m.
to 6 p.m. Voting tents will be
situated in the malls behind
the Woods Art Building and
between Andrews Hall and
Sandoz Hall
Ratified By
The AWS Board ratified
Tuesday the proposal on the
Sandoz Hall AWS Pilot Court.
Organizational details will be
dealt with the remainder of
this semester, with the pilot
court to go into effect next
fall.
The judicial power of t h e
pilot court will cover viola
tions of the AWS rules as they
are outlined in the AWS
Handbook, and appeals of
residents who have previous
ly appeared before the court
and have additional evidence
to present.
Administer Records
According to the charter,
the pilot court will administer
Referring to discrimination
among fraternities and sor
orities, Olson said that it was
not the purpose of ASUN to
conduct a test case.
He added that this was an
area that should be handled
through IFC.
Pokorny agreed with Olson,
saying a test case should not
be initiated by the Senate.
NY Times Reporter To
Pulitzer Prize-winning re
porter Harrison Salisbury
will speak in the Nebraska
Union Ballroom at 10:30 p.m.
Thursday.
Salisbury, assistant manag
ing editor of The New York
Times, gained international
attention in January when he
ventured into North Vietnam
to report on the effects of the
war in that Communist coun
try. Russian-Chinese Expert
An expert on Russian-Chinese
relations, his trip to
Moscow in February has se
cured for him the accolade of
"the most informed on-the-spot
newsman" in journalism
today.
Salisbury won the Pulitzer
prize for excellence in for
eign reporting in 1954 with a
series of articles called "Rus
sia Re-viewed." The series
was based upon five years'
experience as a Moscow cor
respondent and extensive
travel in Soviet Central Asia
ficials. Regents of both
schools support the measure
and Chancellor Clifford Har
din and OU's acting president
Kirk Naylor have endorsed
the move.
The bill provides that OU
would become the University
of Nebraska at Omaha on
July 1, 1968 if Omaha voters
approve the transfer of the
municipal university to state
control. The school would
come under direct control o
the University Regents.
Record of Vote
This is how senators voted
Burnett Hall from 8:30 a.m.
to 4:30 a.m.
Johnson said student identi
fication cards will be required
for students to vote and they
must also specify the college
in which they are enrolled.
He explained that when vot
ing on the Student Bill of
Rights students will be able
to mark yes or no on each in
dividual article approved by
the Senate, except Article 5,
the housing amendment.
Three Choices
Students will have three
choices on Article 5, he con
tinued.
They may vote for the origi
nal article which states "stu
dents have the right to choose
their own living environ
ment" or for the alternative
amendment, which states stu
dents may have "an equitable
role in formulation of housing
Pilot Court
AWS Board
the recording of AWS viola
tions and the notification of vio
lators through the chairman
of the Sandoz Hall AWS Rep
resentatives Council. Viola
tions of dorm regulations
which are not also AWS regu
lations must be tried in t h e
Able Sandoz Residence Asso
ciation Court.
The present AWS Court
will then function in the ca
pacity of an appeals court. If
women students do not agree
with the decision of the San
doz Pilot Court, they may ap-
peal the case to the AWS
Court. If new evidence is
gathered concerning a case,
the case may be appealed to
the Pilot Court.
Court Necessary
The Sandoz Hall AWS Pilot
Court is necessary because
of the dorm situation, accord
ing to AWS Judicial Vice
president, Susie Sitorius, be
cause the dorm situation is
not always recognized by the
AWS Court.
It was also voted upon
Tuesday, to have sophomore,
junior and senior women
evaluate by questionnaire the
junior-senior key system by a
random sampling method.
an area almost unknown to
Westerners.
Since that time he has au
thored books entitled "Ameri
can In Russia," "To Moscow
and Beyond," and "A New
Russia?" about his experi
ences in that country.
UPI Staffer
Salisbury began his career
as a UPI staffer in Chicago,
covering the tail-end of t h e
Prohibition gang wars and
the trial of Al Capone. Dur
ing World War II he moved
to London bureau, heading
the wire service coverage of
the war in Europe.
In 1949 joined the New York
Times, first as a correspond--ent,
then as assistant manag
ing editor. He accompanied
Vice President Nixon on his
visit to Russia in 1960 and
was with Premier Khru
shchev on his t r i p to the
United States.
In addition to his non-fiction
work, Salisbury authored
the novel, "The North Pal
myra Affair" in 1962.
NLiSKAbKA STATE
Expected Soon
on Sen. Henry Pedersen's
Monday motion to hold LB736
on select file:
For: Elvin Adamson, Clif
ton Batchelder, S. H. Brauer,
George Fleming, W. II. Hase
broock, Albert Kjar, John
Knight, Rudolk Kokes, M. A.
K r e m e r, Roland Luedtke,
Stanley Matzke, Harold Moy
lan, Fern Orme, Henry Ped
ersen, Eric Rasmussen, Har
old Simpson, Harold Stryker,
William Swanson, James Wal
dron, Elmer Wallwey, Ramey
Whitney and William Wylie.
policy which allows maximum
individual choice."
Students also have the op
tion to reject both amend
ments, he said.
A5's Amendment
Included on the Bill of
Rights ballot will be an Arti
cle 5 amendment, which was
placed on the ballot by a peti
tion containing the names of
at least five per cent of regu
larly enrolled University stu
dents. The amendment, supported
by the members of Students
for a Democratic Society
(SDS), states that "each stu
dent has the right to choose
his living environment."
Senatorial Candidates
Johnson continued that four
candidates have withdrawn
from the senatorial race.
They are Jerry Olson from
Business Administration, Liz
Aitken from Arts and Sci
ences, and Bob Dawson and
Joel Thorson from Engineer
ing and Architecture.
Executive and senatorial
candidates will be identified
with their campaign parties
on the ballot.
Running on the Party for
Student Action ticket is Dick
Schulze for president, Gene
Pokorny for first vice presi
dent, and Mimi Rose for sec
ond vice president.
The SDS ticket includes
Wes Cooper for president,
George Olivarri for first vice
president and Dennis Bartels
for second vice-president.
Other Slates
Ron Pfeifer, Liz Aitken and
Jerry Olson have filed for the
top Senate positions on an ex
ecutive slate. Pfeifer is run
CRIA Sponsors Drive
To Aid Florence Fund
The tragic flood which de
stroyed a thousand years of
painting, sculpture and litera
ture has prompted the forma
tion of the Committee for the
Rescue of Italian Art (CRIA).
Norman Geske, director of
Sheldon Art Gallery, is serv
ing as coordinator for CRIA
in the Lincoln area. Carol
Pfund, president of Italian
Club is the coordinator of
Salisbury
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Against: Bill Bloom, Rick
Budd, J. W. Burbach, Terry
Carpenter, Edward Danner,
Donald Elrod, Richard Ely,
George G e r d e s, Calista
Hughes, Sam Klaver, Richard
Marvel, C. F. Moulton, Dale
Payne, Richard Proud, Les
lie Robinson, Arnold Ruhnke,
William Skarda, George Sy
as, Glenn Viehmeyer.
Absent or Not voting: Fred
Carstens, Lester Harsh, C. W.
Holmquist, Eugene Mahoney,
Herb .Nore, Jerome Warner,
Ross Rasmussen and Florence
Reynolds.
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ning for president, Miss Ait
ken for first vice-president
and Olson for second vice
president. '
Johnson said the executive
and senatorial ballots will be
counted Wednesday evening.
He added 'the results of the
Advisory Boards ballots and
the Bill of Rights ballot may
not be released until later.
All ASUN candidates are to
submit financial forms con
taining an itemized account
of all election costs to the
Senate office Wednesday, he
added.
AUF Drive
Aids Clinic
Contributions to the AUF
Spring Faculty Drive, April 3
through May 5, will be used
to purchase equipment and
improve the interior of the
-Nebraska Speech and Hearing
Clinic.
The clinic, located in the
Temple Building, serves the
Lincoln comunity by provid
ing speech and hearing train
ing for University students
and testing and observations
services for the public.
Students in the field of
speech therapy also receive a
chance to learn through work
ing with children both indi
vidually and through group
sessions, according to Jody
Parker, AUF spokesman.
"The drive could also pro
vide to valuable and badly
needed equipment," he added.
CRIA on the University cam
pus. The Lincoln fund drive, con
sisting of a lottery-type con
test, will begin on Monday.
The one dollar lottery tickets
will be on sale in the Union,
living units, and residence
halls, according to Mist
Pfund.
First prize is two round
trip tickets to New York.
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