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MONDAY, MAY 1, 1967
University of Nebraska
VOL. 90, NO. 97
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Brath, Abbott Dispute
Merits Of The Draft
SET FOR CENTENNIAL WEEK . . . Cheryl Adams,
Sue Elliott, and Jan Parrott exhibit proper modes of
western and centennial dress. The ASUN Centennial
Committee is sponsoring a Dress Up Day Tuesday when
all students are asked to dress in either Western or Cen
tennial clothes. Violators will be branded by Spring Day
Workers. The committee will award certificates for the
Cutest Country Maiden, Sourest Sourdough and the Sex
iest Saloon Girl on Wednesday.
Dr.
To
Lonnquist Resigns
Accept Mexican Job
The Board of Regents ac
cepted last month the resig
nation of Dr. John Lonnquist,
who has held a professorship
In agronomy at the Univer
sity for 24 years.
According to Lonnquist his
resignation was accepted two
days after he submitted it
Lonnquist said he is leaving
the University to join the In
ternational Center for Wheat
and Corn Improvement, a re
search center recently estab
lished in Chapingo, Mexico
under the joint sponsorship
of the Rockfeller Foundation
and the Ford Foundation.
Leave of Absence
Lonnquist originally asked
for a 2 year leave of absence,
to serve as chief of the corn
research program at the In
ternational Center, he said,
"but Chancellor (Clifford)
Hardin was not interested."
The Chancellor "hoped I
would stay at the University"
he explained, and work in
Mexico for only three or four
months of the year. The pro
fessor added that this arrange
ment would not have been
workable.
After his departure in June,
Lonnquist said the University
research programs in corn
breeding and genetics which
he heads, will undergo change.
Programs Dropped
"The people who will re
place me won't come in with
the same ideas," he continued
so "not just a man is lost,
but programs will be
dropped" on which five to ten
years of research have al
ready been completed.
The University has ap
proached former students
whom Lonnquist has trained
to fill the position so "the
programs wouldn't suffer so
much." "So far they have
drawn a blank," he added.
Commenting on the East
campus research programs,
Lonnquist said there is a lack
of support from the Univer
sity. For the University is to
continue its top ranking in
agricultural research, "a lot
of understanding is needed,"
he continued.
Research Problems
Aside from his work in
genetics and corn breeding,
Lonnquist has served as an
adviser to agriculture gradu
ate students, helping them
set up research problems for
their theses.
More than half of these
graduates have been foreign
students, he said.
Lonnquist became interested
In international agriculture
exchange programs, he said,
when he was first approached
by the Rockefeller Founda
tion in 1955 to serve as an
adviser for one of its agri
cultural centers in Columbia.
While serving with the
Rockefeller Center, Lonn
quist said he "helped to lay
the groundwork" for the Mexi
can International Center.
Research Centers
Some of his interest in the
Center stemmed from the
secondary research centers
which will be constructed
throughout the world includ
ing one in the United States
Corn Belt.
If Nebraska "would show
some interest in this center,"
he said, "there is a chance '
such an institute could be lo
cated in this state. This cen
ter would be a tremendous
boon" to any state which
could acquire it, he added.
ASUN To Hear
Election Charge
A hearing at which stu
dents can voice complaints of
election and campaign pro
cedures surrounding April 12's
ASUN election will be held
at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the
Nebraska Union, according to
ASUN electoral commissioner
Larry Johnson.
Johnson stated that stu
dents wishing to testify should
be ready to cite specific in
cidents, names and places
where election or campaign
violations allegedly occurred.
Cornhusker, Nebraskan ...
Miss Mahar, Giles Named
As Editors For Next Year
Publications Board an
nounced the appointment Fri
day of Bruce Giles and Judy
Mahar as the new editors of
the Daily Nebraskan and
Cornhusker.
Giles is a junior majoring
in journalism who has been
on the Nebraskan staff for
four semesters. He has served
as a junior and senior staff
writer, a copy editor and
managing editor. He has also
worked for the Lincoln Jour
nal. The new news editor is
Cheryl Tritt, a sophomore in
journalism. ' Miss Tritt has
been on the Nebraskan for
two semesters as a junior
and senior staff writer.
Managing Editor
The new Nebraskan manag
ing editor is Jack Todd, a
sophomore in journalism who
has served as a copy editor
and night news editor.
The sports editor for first
semester next year is Mark
Gordon, a freshman majoring
in journalism who has served
as a junior staff writer.
Appointments of a business
manager, senior writer, sen
ior copy editor and night
news editor are still pending
and will probably be an
nounced at the next Pub
Board meeting.
Interviews Scheduled
Giles said that the new sen
ior staff is tentatively sched
uling interviews for junior
staff positions for May 9. In
terested students have until
Friday to apply.
Publications Board also an
nounced the appointment of a
new Cornhusker staff.
Miss Mahar, the new edi
tor, is a junior in journalism.
New associate editors are
Maxine Burnett, a sophomore
in journalism and Rodney
Powell, a sophomore in Eng
lish. Managing editors on next
year's staff will be Kay Redi
ger, Gwen Evens, Vince Van
Zago, Nancy Nord. Jo Ann
Pahl and Deanna Kaufmann.
Jan Weber will serve as panel
editor.
Business Managers
The 1968 Cornhusker busi
ness manager is Bob Beck
mann. His assistant business
manager will be Ann Wiley.
Miss Mahar said interviews
for section editors will be
held Sunday. Information con
cerning these positions has
been sent to all houses and
dormitories and is available
at the Cornhusker office.
In addition to the positions
which have been announced,
there is a possibility that a
senior staff assistant may be
appointed, Miss Mahar stated.
Opinions ranging from varying degrees
of approval to several levels of disagreement
were expressed at Sunday night's draft
teach-in sponsored by the Students for a Dem
ocratic Society (SDS).
Col. Francis S. Drath of the Nebraska
Selective Service System explained the for
mation and effect the Selective System has
over individuals and added that the present
draft law," has a great deal of flexibility
as it provides various methods by which you
can be exempt from it."
Draft Flexible
He listed several methods that make the
draft flexible such as not inducting young
men under the age of 19, opening angles for
persons claiming to be conscientous objec
tors to be exempt from combative service,
and issuing student deferments for the period
they attend school.
In direct disagreement with Col. Drath
was Steve Abbott, a former University stu
dent, who has filed for CO status as a Catho
lic and has had difficulty obtaining his de
sired deferment.
He called the present draft law nebulous
and arbitrary because it makes men from
19 to 35 "stand like clowns waiting for word
if they are going to be taken or not."
He added that "you almost have to be a
lawyer to understand what is going on."
'Two Patriotisms'
He explained that there were two kinds
of patriotism that persons in the world to
day can follow.
The first demands that persons must fol
low and devote themselves to constitutional
principles in order to be patriots while the
second is a "blind nationalism" that teaches
everyone to be loyal to ther government and
obey every command and wish of their
leaders.
He said that those people who unquestion
ingly follow the wishes of the government in
obeying the draft laws, indirectly aid a na
tion resembling the Hitler Regime which cap
tured the German people just 20 years ago.
Not A Robot
In saying that the "state has no right to
be my conscience", Abbott said that the state
"cannot make me a mechanical robot."
He urged all individuals to look into their
own conscience and try to live with the peo
ple next to you all the time.
Abbott agreed with patriots of ail kinds
that "if you get benefits from a country you
should do something in return for it, and said
that he favored a compulsory national ser
vice system, although not necessarily a mili
tary service because "I don't believe in a
legacy of bloodshed."
Areas For CO'
Melvin Siebert, who has worked with the
Mennonite Central Committee, said there
were areas CO's could go into if they were
government approved and in the interest of
safety and national interest.
Those areas were foresty projects, men
tal and medical hospital work, teaching and
various fields of medical research.
He added that after a person receives a
CO classification he may apply to the MCC
to find a job for him.
The MCC then picks out one of several
programs that the person may fit into for
possible work.
Voluntary Service
The first program is the Voluntary Ser
vice Program, mainly providing service posi
tions in the United States in areas such as
community welfare in all areas of everyday
society.
Another program sends persons to for
eign countries with relief-rehabilitation inter
ests, and a foreign teaching program is also
available to qualified CO's.
Or a person, holding a 1-W classification,
(a CO performing civilian work) may seek
employment on his own as long as it is ap
proved by the government, not by the state
that his OCA draft board is located in.
Tut Love In World'
Hugh Shanks, who was active in the Con
gress for racial equality in Kansas City, Mo.,
said that the young people of today have the
power to either continue the wars or try to
put love into the world.
"If anyone can avert some of the Gross
National Product from military projects, you
will be promoting peace," he said, "and
surely you can do a better job than my
blood-soaked generation did."
He added that if today's generation could
just rechannel less than two per cent of the
GNP for educational purposes it will be a step
in the right direction and he added that if
the "resistance to the war in Viet Nam is
just a beginning to the objection to all wars,
then let this be the end of all wars."
Necessary Pressure
Major Harry C. Heald, local commander
of the Disabled American Veterans, who is
a staunch supporter of the draft laws after
serving in various wars and being slightly
disabled, discounted the voluntary service
system since the "Pressure of the draft is
necessary for persons volunteering for ser
vice." Dayton Olson, of the American Friends
Service Committee, said the present draft
law, passed by Congress in 1948, has been
debated and the burden of proof of a per
sons' CO objection does not equally fall on
both the person and the draft board.
He said the draft law violates the first
amendment to the U.S. Constitution as it
makes a person define his religion, in some
ways violates the sixth amendment as the
person is sometimes not confronted with
witnesses when his case is brought before
appeals courts and violates the eighth amend
ment as no excessive bail or punishment is
permitted.
Channel Persons
He also discussed a comment by Gen
eral Hershey, national selective service chair
man, who said that the draft laws not only
provide military manpower but also "chan
nel" persons into proper professions.
While the pressure of the draft can chan
nel persons into proper professions the gov
ernment feels are correct, he asked, "who
has visited it is perfectly acceptable to beat
fession."
He added that at several campuses he
has visited it is perfectly acceptable to beat
the draft by various means such as en
rolling in graduate school, but he asked then
"why is some one who wants to obtain a
CO standing called a draft dodger?"
He said that CO's were not draft dod
gers, but they are honest "persons who are
laying their cards on the table."
Gather To Hear Secession Study
English 229 Registration
Opened For Two Weeks
Registration for the "take
home" English course begins
Monday and continues through
May 15, according to Nesha
Neumeister, originator of the
course.
The course, English 229, is
the study of the American
novel. It is being offered on
a pass-fail basis and students
will receive three hours of
credit upon passing a test in
the fall.
However this course will
not apply to an English ma
jor or minor because it is of
fered on the pass-fail basis,
Miss Neumeister stressed.
The cost of the course is
$43.25 which must be paid
upon the date of registration
to the Bursar's office. An
orientation meeting' will be
held between the students
and assistant Dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences
Robert Hough, English pro
fessor who will organize the
course.
A tentative curriculum for
the course, offered to students
with a 2.5 accumulative aver
age at the date of registra
tion, includes: "The Prairie"
by Cooper, "The Marble
Faun" by Hawthorne, "The
Great Gatsby" by Fitzgerald,
"The Old Man and the Sea"
by Hemingway and "Catcher
Id the Rye" by Salinger.
A five-man committee, ap
pointed last week by Cather
Hall president, Bruce Bailey,
to work with leaders of John
F. Kennedy House after the
house seceded from the
Cather government, will pre
sent their report at Tuesday's
Cather Hall Executive Coun
cil meeting.
Floor 13, in a prepared
proclamation, left Cather
Hall government claiming
"the Executive Council has
surpassed its limits of au
thority in making the present
by-laws and that the Judicial
Council has surpassed its lim
its of authority in enforcing
these bylaws."
Ask Constitution Changes
The floor demands that the
Cather Executive Council re
peal two by-laws, dealing with
dress-up regulations at cer
tain meals and crowding into
the meal lines, and add
three amendments to t h e
Cather Constitution.
Floor 13 president, Robert
Wolff, said the newly appoint
ed committee will "help us
write up the proposed amend
ments in a form that is ac
ceptable to everyone."
Three Amendment
The first amendment, as
asked for by Bailey, would re
quire by-law proposals to be
tabled one week so that floor
representatives could discuss
the by-law with floor residents
.before a vote is held by the
Cather Executive Council.
Although Wolff had asked
for a referendum vote among
residents on all existing by
laws anil future by-laws, he
said Bailey's proposal met
with his approval. But we have
by-laws now that have already
been passed by the Executive
Council that don't represent
student opinion as well as they
should have been, he said.
Concerning the final two
amendments which provide
that the floor judicial board
rather than the hall judicial
board have first priority in
hearing cases, Bailey said
they already possess this
power.
"If they (floors) take the
time to write up their own
judicial by-laws, they have
the power to create a floor
judicial board," Bailey said.
Bailey's Complaint
In claiming that Kennedy
House should use more initia
tive and not publicity to meet
their demands, Bailey said,
"I feel that they should have
come to the Executive Coun
cil with their recommenda
tions as other floors in the
hall do."
"These by-laws were passed
before the term of office of
the present officer!) and they
have just been re-defined so
the hall judicial board could
work with the existing by
laws," Bailey said.
"The big reason we now
have a hall Judicial Board is
that no one likes to try his
roommate," Bailey added.
Wolff said that Kenney
House already has these judi
cial by-laws written into the
floor constitution but that
"we have just never used
them as no one in our house
has asked to use them.
Although the floor has with
drawn from Cather Hall stu
dent government, the floor
still intends to live by all
state and University regula
tions, Wolff said.
Until the floor rejoins the
men's residence hall, they
have been placed under the
jurisdiction of Cather resi
dence director Jim Pequetta
and the Executive Council is
thinking about freezing all
the floor's funds.
Professional Fraternity
Council To Start Work
The Council of Professional
Fraternities, composed of pro
fessional and honorary-professional
fraternities, will meet
May 7 at 2 p.m. in the Ne
braska Union to elect execu
tive officers.
Besides electing a president,
vice-president, secretary and
treasurer, the group will also
vote on a constitutional
amendment creating the of
fice of historian, according to
Bruce Giles, chairman of the
constitutional committee.
The constitution, already
ratified by the Student Senate
and now before the Faculty
Senate for final approval
states four objectives of the
council. They are: Ad
vancing University profession
al fraternities.
Improving communication
between the professional
fraternities. Creating a bet
ter image of professional fra
ternities. Advancing broth
erhood among the professional
fraternities.
Giles said the council is not
on a plane with the IFC.IDA
and Panhellenic since it is
not a governing body but a
group "to help solve mutual
problems such as member
ship, or publicity."
He said the group, in its
first year, would help fraterni
ties know more about their
counterparts.
He said the group hasn't
planned any specific projects
cow, but a possible project
would be assembling a book
let describing the functions of
each professional fraternity.
"It could follow somewhat
on the lines of the Builders
booklet except be more inten
sive and be distributed to
freshmen so they would know
about the organization," Giles
said.
Giles added that group also
might attempt to reestablish
professional fraternities de
funct at certain colleges.