THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Editorials
Commentary
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Thursday, October 5, 1967 .
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University students can once again
look forward to elections without fear of
the widespread discrepancies appearing as
they did during last spring's ASUN elec
tions. Upperclass students will remember
the charges that students voted more tnan
one time or that students were voting on
another student's ID.
With the new election regulations and
procedures proposed by Electonal Com
mission Director Ed Hilz, there need be
no more scandalous ASUN elections.
First, students will vote at polling
places designated for different colleges.
This will enable election officials to check
on whether a student has already voted.
No longer will a student be able to vote
in one place and then rush to another
polling place and vote again.
Secondly, each voter will be marked
with an ultraviolet ink that cannot be
washed off and will not disappear for at
least 24 hours. No longer will a student
There are those critics of the Daily
jNebraskan who have said that the news
ipaper has overplayed the issue of deferred
frush an issue which they contend affects
'only the Greeks.
: But this could hardly be further from
:the truth.
: For at least the last several years ALL
students have been fighting for the right of
the student in decision-making and the right
of the freshman to determine where he
may live.
And yet deferred rush, though it may
be somewhat different importance to the
. Greeks, involves these same rights that all
students, including Independents have been
promoting for several years.
The Nebraskan was glad to see these
CAMPUS OPINION
; Dear Editor:
Again this year we as students can
not help but be thankful to the Daily
Nebraskan for alarming us to the jeop
i ardy that the student body, as a whole,
would be in if we lost the titanic struggle
against deferred rush.
Like last year the watchful eye of
the Daily Nebraskan has seen the threat
to our educational opportunities that such
a hideous conspiracy as the movement
for deferred rush would be. (For the bene
fit of you freshmen or transfer students
who might not know, we owe our very
existence to the crusading spirit of the
Daily Nebraskan, which saved our Uni
versity from the clutches of the Sub Rosa
organizations.)
Such examples of courageous journal
ism should go down in history next to
the expose of Boss Tweed or the cam
paign against abuses in the meat-packing
: industry.
It is simply amazing the apathy of
:the student body toward issues as Sub
Rosas and deferred rush, while they waste
their time worrying about such foolish
things as an outmoded prerequisite sys
tem, limited course offerings and strangl
ing group requirements that only threat
en minor things such as their education.
Americans Want To Put Viet
BY DAVID LLOYD-JONES
: Collegiate Press Service
" More than a quarter of a
million citizens in major
cities and small towns have
petitioned to put the war in
Vietnam on the ballot in
state and local elections this
November.
Despite roadblocks
thrown up by city clerks
maintaining that Vietnam
is not a civic issue, a re
cent California Supreme
Court decision makes it
likely that Vietnam issues
will appear on the ballot in
San Francisco, New York,
Cleveland. Cambridgs,
Mass., Wisconsin and else
where. COURT ORDER
In California the Supreme
Court ordered the San Fran
cisco city clerk Sept. 18 to
put the referendum com
mittee's Proposition V on
the November ballot. Prop
osition P states that "it is
the policy of the people of
the city and country of San
Francisco that there be an
Immediate ceasefire and
withdrawal of U.S. troops
from Vietnam so that the
people of Vietnam can set
tle their owb problems.
A poll taken by San Fran
cisco political scientist
Pat Bell indicates 38 9 per
cent of the electorate sup
ports the proposition, while
27.7 percent oppose It Oth
ers are uncommitted or re
fuse to answer. Significant
ly 67 percent of Negro vot
ers willed supported the
proposition, with only 11 per
air Elections
ALL Students
cent supporting the war.
Negroes are about 10 per
cent of the electorate in
San Francisco.
In New York two separ
ate petitions gathered a to
tal of 133.000 signatures de
manding a proposition on
the November ballot to
amend the City Charter "to
provide for the election of a
New York City Director of
Vietnam Peace Priorities to
help bring about an imme
diate end to U.S. interven
tion in Vietnam."
cmc ISSUE
Sponsors of the proposi
tion maintain that the war
is a civic issue since New
York youth are killed in the
war. New Y'ork youth are
drafted to the war and fed
eral funds are diverted
from housing, health and
welfare to pay for the war.
The New York petitions,
sponsored by the New York
Committee far the With
drawal Referendum a
largely Progressive Labor
(Maoist) group and the
Fifth Avenue Vietnam
Peace Parade Committee
a broadly based associa
tion of peace agitatorsare
t present before the courts.
A petition by 8,864 voters
in Cleveland to put the war
on the ballot has been de
nied by City Clerk Merced
es Cotner. and her action
has been appealed to t h e
courts. A decision is expect
ed to be handed down this
week. Also In Ohio, 226 citi
zens in the small suburb of
Willoughy Hills have peti
tioned for Initiative proced
be able to gather up ID cards and vote
for each of these persons identified on
the cards.
Finally, mark-sense ballots the kind
used in your freshman English finals
will be used. This will allow those "non
itnerested" parties, previously used to
count ballots, to be used in checking stu
dents as they come in to vote. This pro
cedure will eliminate the chance of hav
ing an "interested" student on the ballot
panel.
In addition these rules will be backed
up with some force.
Any student who votes, or even at
tempts to vote more than once, will not
be allowed to hold any office on campus,
will not be allowed to participate in any
student organizations and could face a
$100 fine.
The Daily Nebraskan commends the
Electoral Commission for taking steps to
prevent a reoccurrence of last year's fiasco.
rights pointed out in a resolution passed by
Student Senate Wednesday.
As the resolution stated, the imposition
of deferred rush would negate the student's
right in decision-making, and, for fraterni
ties, would mean that the freshman male
would not have a decision in the type of on
campus housing he could choose.
The Nebraskan agrees with those mem
bers of Senate who feel that Student Sen
ate should not involve itself in deciding
whether deferred rush is good for the Greek
system.
The Nebraskan applauds Student Sen
ate for putting itself above petty Greek-Independent
rivalry, and passing a resolution
that points out the effects of deferred rush
on the entire University community.
If keeping this issue on the front
page for two weeks straight doesn't do
it then just fight on, by all means KEEP
UP THE GOOD WORK!
Barry Sehneiderwind
Rebuttal
Dear Editor:
Since I am the girl that Robert Pav
las mentioned in his letter on Oct. 2, 1967,
I feel that I have the right to reply.
I still feel that Pavlas is an evasive
speaker. And from what I was able to
scrounge out of his little talk I think that
I agree with him about Vietnam. But. I
also feel that he should be able to back
up his statements with just a couple of
facts. Is that too much to ask? With some
facts, he just might possibly be able to
convince some other people that he
is right.
I don't feel that a person should have
all the answers. It is impossible for such
a human being to exist. All I ask is that
he be able to answer a few specific ques
tions with a few truthful answers, may
be even a few factual answers.
ure to put the war on their
civic ballot.
MIXED HOPES
Other initiative and
petition proceedings are un
der way in Portland. Ore..
Ann Arbor, Mich.. Evans
ton. Ill aiid Berkeley, Calif.
Hopes of the organizers of
the petitions are mixed. Art
Goldberg of New Y'ork's
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For one thing Mr. Pavlas says is
right. Truth is an evasive creature which
we all must search for. Only in my
search I'd like a few facts to give to the
passers-by that I may happen to meet on
the road that I choose to travel.
Mary Gigbons
Success
Dear Editor:
Last spring 36 students registered for
summer English 229 in the American no
vel. Dean Robert L. Hough, the profes
sor in charge, now reports that each stu
dent has completed the course, taken an
examination and received credit on a
pass-fail basis.
When former Senator Ron Pfeiffer's
ASUN committee first instituted the
framework of this course, there was con
siderable doubt of the value of such a
new concept of learning and obtaining
credit.
Much praise must be given Dean
Hough, Dean Lee M. Chatfield and Dr.
Dudley Bailey for the efforts and coop
eration they extended in establishing this
method of learning.
Fifth Avenue Parade Com
mittee expects that they
will win both their court
case and the referendum.
Feelings against the war
are strong in New Y'ork, he
says, while supporters of
the war are few, scattered
and apathetic.
In Bcrkcly. organizers are
confining their hopes to gett
ing the issue to the vote.
"This city appears the most
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radical in the nation to out
siders." say Susan Montag
of the Student Mobilization
Committee, which is runn
ing the referendum pro
gram, "but the electorate
that votes on the issue is
not nearly so radical as
you might think."
With or without radio!
electorates, though, votes
against the war would seem
Jo have good chance of suc
cess everywhere. In Michi
Great Parody, Bob
Dear Editor :
In regard to Bob Vander
sliee's letter in Wednesday's
Daily Nebraskan: Congrat
ulations on m remarkably
wonderful parody. Your sa
tire was so good that for a
moment, oh but the briefest
of moments, I nearly took
you seriously.
However, a word of per
Tiaps unneeded. but certain
ly worth mentioning cau
tion. There may be some
students who dont realize,
as you .and 4 do of course,
that you are writing a par
ody. Cif course, you and I
alize than an intelligent
college student would never
be narrow-minded enough
to put down someone on the
basis of his looks. And we
also know that, since this is
America, land of the free,
we welcome dissenters and
subcultures because of their
Tights as citizens.
And, naturally, we would
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I enjoyed the course. Students m-ere
happy that Dr. Hough took so much of
his time, above and extra to his regular
duties, to aid all of us. His lectures were
excellent.
I hope that summer English 229 will
be continued, much enlarged next sum
mer and that his concept is extended, not
only in the English department, but to
the history, philosophy and other de
partments. Nesha Ncnroeister
Trash
Dear Editor:
You should enforce your policy of not
publishing unsigned letters. The slander
of President Lyndon B. Johnson, which
you published as an "anonymous note,"
in Monday's Daily Nebraskan is unde
serving of the attention of your readers.
Whatever the sins of our President, it
is rather pathetic that you are unable
to find anything better to fill your paper.
Ronald' W. McFee
(Tbt Nebraskan reserves the right to
condense letters, Unsigned letters w ill not
be printed.
gan, where only cities un
der 250.000 are allowed to
vote on national issues un
der an archaic law now
being challenged, withdraw
al of U.S. troops was pro
posed on the 1966 ballot, un
der the sponsorship of May
or Orvil Hubbard an' tiit
city council. Forty-one per
cent of the voters supported
withdrawal, while just aver
half opposed it.
never make snap or value
judgments. But tliere may
be some of the college stu
dents, not many mind you,
but a Jew who are still sit
ting in their chairs looking
forward to 1984. Since they
are so desperately in need
of allies, tbey may, in a
blind moment of hope, take
you seriously. They may
i orsee in you a new leader
of the "Conformity For All
Cult' Your could become
the Timothy Leary of the
movement to make Plastic
People of us all. which is
ooviously the furthest thing
from your mind.
So take heed. Your paro
dies are so good that, irom
now on, you should put at
the top of each one: NO
TICE TO ALL NARROW
MINDED PEOPLE. THIS
IS A PARODY.
George Bryan,
(Behind cJhe
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' Few U.S. civilian or military
policy makers foresaw that
President Kennel's 1961 decision
to broaden id and advice to
South Vietnam would lead to
today's massive U.S. involve
ment." "How We Got tnl All VmvuntMl
Wr", Frd HoffmB. AP military
Writtr, tmt ,
BY JULIE MORRIS
The increasingly large
number of Americans
who've taken a dovish stand
on the Vietnam war in the
last month or two is stag
gering when one considers
it.
Just in the past month the
nation has seen:
MORE U.S. senators, in
cluding Sen. Thurston Mor
ton of Kentucky and Sen.
Stuart Symington of Mis
souri, make anti-war state
ments. NATIONAL popular ap
proval of Vietnam policy
drop from nearly three
fourths approving to a lit
tle more than half approv
ing (as reflected in Gallup
and Harris polls K
GROUPS in major U.S.
cities formed for the speci
fic purpose of putting the
Vietnam question on nation
al and state election bal
lots in November.
It almost seems as if it's
the vogue to be against the
wor or to at least to be fed
up with it. Supporters of the
war. outside of those in the
military or the Johnson ad
ministration, seem to be ei
ther few and far between or
they arent talking much.
It is no longer just the Bob
Kennedy-style politicians or
the dark-horse presidential
nominee possibilities, who
are shouting for negotia
tions in Vietnam, it's every
one's hometown congress
man. Housewives, bricklay
ers, railroad engineers, doc
tors, and mechanics are
talking anti-war. along
with the students and col
lege professors considered
radical just two years ago.
Journalists, being what
they are, are looking for the
reasons behind the gradual
national realignment on the
war. Some of the reasons
for popular disaffection with
the war seem to be:
THE INCREASES in U.S.
casualties, particularly the
massive deaths at Con
Thien in the past month.
THE INCREASE in the
number of American men
being assigned to Vietnam
duty.
THE SHEER length of
the war.
SERIOUS doubts that
U.S. forces are gaining any
ground.
DISGUST over the state
of South Vietnamese govern
ment and doubt about
whether South Vietnamese
troops are doing much of
the front-line fighting.
FEAR of a possible nu
clear clash if the war is
stepped up.
Many of the former
hawks now turned doves
seemed to have awakened
to the realization that the
Vietnamese war could go on
for 20 years more unless
sdrastic action is taken and
others are just plain sick
and tired of hearing about
the war which hogs the front
pages four out of seven davs
a week, with the same tvpe
of reports of battles, air
strikes and casualties.
The American public
eems to want a change in
this unwanted war, not just
to hear from flay to day
that American bombers
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"struck closer than ever to
Hanoi."
At this time it seems Ihat
there are actually only Tour
to five clearcut ways to
change the course of the
war. These are:
A PULLBACK A cut
down in troops and a
gradual pulling back into
areas that can be strate
gically defended and held.
A PULL-OUT of Ameri.
can troops and aid, leaving
the South Vietnamese to
handle their own problems.
SOME TYPE of ceasefira
with an offer to North Viet
nam and the Liberation
Front for negotiations.
INVASION of North Viet
nam which could lead ,tI
nuclear war or a full-scale
ground war with Red China.
LIMITED use of nuclear
weapons to stop North
Vietnam.
Which of these possibil
ities the public might ap
prove is unknown and prob
ably unknowable without
some type of nationwide
referendum. Which of the
possibilities that the John
son administration might be
considering is likewise un
known to any but the inner
circle of national command.
It would be foolish for
the individual to predict
what course the nation
may decide to follow. It
would likewise be foolish,
however, to rule out the
last two possibiliteis, pos
sibilities that many people
would cringe to think
might become realities.
At any rate, Vietnam is
there and it looks like it
will stay there for quite a
while to come. The thing
the nation definitely needs
and seems to want now is
a change In the present
situation, a change that
must come from the John
son administration soon to
either demonstrate to the
public that we should stay
in Vietnam or to acknow
ledge that the war was a
mistake.
4. J,
It's danged unusual to
find an LSD "dropout" who
was an experienced user,
and now wants to convince
other people not to try the
stuff.
Hastings College speaker
Dr. Allen Cohen is such a
man. Because Cohen is a
former heavy -user '(30
trips) the things be says,
about LSD, while the same '
things said in hundreds of
articles on the drug, take
on much more significance. "
Cohen says LSD is mo
answer to anything. He also
states that use of the drug
may cause physiological I
damage and that the likeli-,
hood of "permanent psy
chosis" resulting from pro
longed use of the drug is
"'almost inevitable. ;
While Cohen's remrks J
probably didn't change the
minds oi many Hastings
students about taking
not taking LSD, he must
have been a fascinating and
provocative speaker.
LSD is something that,
has been thrown around in
popular discussions and in .
the press for nearly two;
years now and it stili draws -listeners
and readers. Be
cause the drug seems to
have so many mysterious ;
surrounding it however, -1
doubt that we'll sn
see tlie day when taking
LSD will be the college" lad "
that smoking marijuana
has become.
Oct. I, H6T
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