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COMEDIAN DICK GREGORY issues a challenge to
youth to go into society and make democracy work.
Thursday, October 26,
N
ew Dorms Attempting
To Write Constitutions
Smith, Schramm and Harp
er Halls have been active the
past few weeks in writing and
implementing constitutions,
according to Ron Alexander,
Schramm ' constitution com
mittee chairman.
Alexander. Reesa A 1 m y,
John Moseman, Brent Ram
sey and Bill Chaloupka,
formed a committee last
spring to write a constitution
that could be implemented by
all three dorms.
This fall the constitution
was presented to all three
dorms to be revamped ac
cording to the individual
needs of the three residence
balls.
The constitution features a
senate as the legislative body,
opposed to a floor presidents
council which is the dominant
form in other University resi
dence halls, said Alexander.
The constitution also pro
vides for a joint social com
mittee for the complex and a
joint court. As of yet only the
Kaufman
Featured
Tonight
Novelist-Author
To Speak At 7:00
Bel Kaufman, author of the
recent best-seller Up the
Down Starlcase, will be fea
tured in the University of Ne
braska Speaker-Artist Series
at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Ne
braska Union Ballroom.
Miss Kaufman's book about
a teacher was recently made
into a motion picture, starring '
Lincoln's Sandy Dennis.
Miss Kaufman spent her.
childhood abroad and learned
English at the age of 12. She
gaduated a magna cum
ude, Phi Beta Kappa from
Hunter College and holds a '
masters degree with high
honors from Columbia Univer
sity. She taught English for IS
jean in the New York City
schools and currently Is teach
ing in two colleges.
Since Up the Down Stair
case, was her first novel, she
has published a number of
short stories in national mag
azines and has written lyrics
for musicals.
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social committee has been
utilized by all three dorms.
Schramm ratified its consti
tution after several sessions
of a constitutional convention.
Alexander feels the conven-
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it, girls could stay out
an extra hour Saturday
night and still be in by
9 1 a.m. 9
Last session the Ne-
braska legislature ap- I
jjj proved the change 5
from Central Stand-
I ard Time (CST) and f
Daylight Savings Time
9 (DST) for the entire 9
state. 5
S Last spring, clocks 5
g were set an hour ear- g
lier, causing some un-
founded protestations 5
I that the lawns would I
9 be burned from the 9
I extra hour of sunlight
I and such.
g But Saturday night, 5
or actually Sunday
I morning, at 2 a.m.,
I clocks will officially be
9 set back one hour to 1 9
a.m. as the state goes f
1 back onto CST.
g Therefore, women g
with one o'clock hours f
at their living units
could actually arrive
i at 1:59 a.m.. walk into i
the door at 2 a.m.,
which is really 1 a.m.,
g and insist that they are g
legally on time.
An AWS letter pre-
g venting this was sent I
to women's residences
I instructing the doors to f
jf be closed before the
g clocks are turned
back, according to
1 Mary Lund, who pre-
I pared the letter for the I
9 AWS.
I "This letter should
alleviate any problem I
g with this," she said.
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Tickets On Sale
For Homecoming
Tickets are now on sale In
the Nebraska Union for the
Homecoming Dance, featur
ing Tommy James and the
Shundeiis, Nov. 10 in the
University Coliseum.
Tickets may also be pur
chased from members of Corn
Cobs and Tassels for $1.50.
Students may buy tickets at
the dance.
BY ED ICENOGLE
Senior Staff Writer
Dick Gregory, a nonviolent,
pacifist, vegetarian, comedian :
and civil rights leader, told'
University students Wednes
day that the "whole world is '-.
telling us they don't want our
form of freedom."
Gregory told nearly 1,000
students at the East Campus
Union that the United States
is morally sick and that a
sick nation cannot survive.
"We subscript soldiers to
go around the world to insure
Vietnamese the freedom to
walk wherever they want in
Vietnam," Gregory said,
"while Americans cannot
walk down American streets
unmolested by other Ameri
cans." RACIST
The comedian attacked the
country's involvement in
Vietnam, the violence in
American society and "moral
pollution," every American a
racist.
"Without basic changes in
the next three years," he said,
"this nation will not survive.
"You young people," he
added, -"are inheriting a
messe d-up country in a
messed-up world."
CHALLENGE
Gregory challenged the
tion was beneficial because
all views could be presented
and necessary changes made.
Besides the senate, the
Schramm constitution elimi
nated standard floor govern
ments. Each floor can now set
up its own type of govern
ment. Alexander said this al
lows each floor more freedom
of choice.
However Harper Hall in
cluded a floor government
plan in its constitution, ac
cording to John Moseman.
Harper has not yet adopted
its document but ratification
is pending.
Smith's constitution was
taken through a constitutional
convention and is presently
being studied by the floor
presidents who have the au
thority to make necessary
changes.
Los Indios
Tabaharas
Perform
On Tour
Latin American
Brothers Arrive
Los Indios Tabaharas,
singers and musicians, will
perform Nov. 2 at 8 p.m. at
the Nebraska Theater as part
of the Speaker-Artist Series
sponsored jointly by the Ne
braska Union Music Commit
tee and the Talks and Topics
Committee.
The two brothers. Mussa
pere and Herundy, from the
Brazilian state of Ceara,
started their career when
they found an abandoned
guitar on a forest path.
Neither of the two knew
how the strange object func
tioned, but the duo soon learn
ed to manipulate it as accom
paniment for their native
songs.
A three thousand mile
march to Rio de Janeiro
launched their career which,
during the past 15 years, has
snow-balled to Include Latin
American, European and U.S.
tours.
The muslcfans have also
appeared on radio and tele
vision programs and their rec
' crds rank as best-sellers,
beginning with the release of
"Maria Elena.,,
youth to go into society and
make democracy work. If
' democracy had been success
ful, he charged, other nations
would be eager to follow
Americans example.
But when other nations see
how the United States prac
tices discrimination, it dims
the p i c t u r e of democracy,
making it necessary for
Americr.us to force their pol
icies on other countries, such
as Vietnam, he explained.
Gregory also commented on
the violence of our society as
reflected in the Vietnam war.
NAZIS
"This is a violent coun
try," he said. "Your friends
are over in Vietnam out-Nazi-ing
the Nazis."
In addition to referring to
war atrocities committed by
Americans, he objected to the
violence present in the
United States.
A c c u s i n g the nation's
press of being "controlled,"
Gregory said that much of to
day's violence is not reported.
The press has not reported
the killings of civil rights
workers in the South, accord
ing to Gregory, and it has
not accurately represented
the peace movement.
ACCUSED PRESS
"The press did not tell of
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Vietnam Seminars To End Friday;
Lowenstein Speaks At Last Session
Allard Lowenstein, vice
chairman of the Americans
for Democratic Action, will
address the final session of
Vietnam Week seminars Fri
day at 7:30 p.m. in the Ne
braska Union
Former president of the
National Student Association,
he aided Hubert Humphrey in
Eolitical campaigns and
elped to form the Mississippi
Freedom Democratic Party.
The Americans for Demo
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the two soldiers who threw
their rifles down and joined
the demonstrators in Wash
ington last week," he said.
"And many of the papers
estimated that there were
ten-or-30-or-40 thousand peo
ple at the Washington
March," he said. "But if there
were 10 people there, there
were 300,000."
MAKING MISTAKE
"They are making a mis
take," Gregory said of t h e
government. "Now . they are
bringing the soldiers out
against their own people.
This is what the Romans and
Greeks did, before they fell."
"It is one thing to bring
out soldiers against other
soldiers," he said, - "but it
is another thing to put them
against their own people."
Another American sickness
is racism, he said. But
this one is not new.
Asserting that America is
the most racist country in the
world, he called upon young
people ta help with the dras
tic changes hat are coming,
"whether you like it or not."
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"And the black folks are
racists, too," he said. "We
have a right to hate you as
much as you hate us."
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cratic A c 1 1 0 n is a liberal.
Democratic Party organiza
tion of which Vice-President
Humphrey was a member.
Lowenstein Is expected to
voice an opinion to the loft
of those expressed previous
ly, Vietnam Week represent
atives said.
Vietnam Week will end
Monday with a referendum of
student and faculty opinion on
conduct of the war.
Students will be able to
groes, like Rap Brown and
S t o k e 1 y Carmichael have
been forced into these atti
tudes because of the failure
of the whites to work with
the Negro to' gain his full
rights, he said.
"There are thousands of
Rap Browns," he said, who
were all nonviolent once."
VEGETARIAN
"We were hoping the Amer
icans would show us how they
treat people who behave,"
Gregory said of a peaceful
quest of civil rights. "B u t
then look at the Indians on
reservations."
Gregory indicated that
though he personally rejects
the use of physical abuse
against things of nature (his
rationale against eating
meat), he would not hesitate
to approve the destruction of
the property of someone who
is denying rights to others.
"We (the Negro) are just
as violent as you," he said,
"because we learned from
you.
INSANE LEGISLATION
"We don't want civil rights,"
he added. "We just want life
under the Constitution."
Gregory claimed a respect
for nature, and an interest in
people. He rejected the think
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chose one of four alternatives
selected by the ASUN Ad
Hoc Committee on Vietnam:
1 .The United States should
employ all necessary military
force to achieve a military
victory.
2. In return for reciprocal
de-escalation from the North
Vietnamese, the U.S. should
end the bombing of the North
in preparation for negotia
tions. (Present policy.)
Speech
ing of government leaders
who place high value on ob
jects. The laws against burn
ing draft cards and Ameri
can flags are "insane legis
lation in a mad country," he
said.
VALUE CARDBOARD
"That puts a higher value
on a piece of cardboard than
on a human being," he said.
"And I can go out and buy a
flag and burn it. I'm not in
terested in a rag, but in peo
ple." The civil rights leader also
spoke on the insult of for
eigners against the Negro.
A student from Russia, a
Communist, can easily move
into a white neighborhood or
get a scholarship, while a Ne
gro cannot, even though he
is an American.
ONLY SYMPTOMS
"I have no intention of dis
cussing a cure," he said. "I
can only give the symptoms
of this problem."
Gregory's generation (he is
35) "understood, but we were
afraid to do anything," he
said.
"The young people in this
country are the most moral
ly committed group on the
fact of this earth," he said.
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3. The United States
should unconditionally end
bombing of the North and
recognize the National Liber
ation bombing of the North
and recognize the National
Liberation Front in order to
achieve negotiations.
4. The United States should
withdraw its troops and end
, the bombing to terminate
military intervention in Vietnam.
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