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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Editorials Commentary Wednesday, November 8, 1967 Page 2 Freedom Must Stand The Daily Nebraskan must commend Chancellor Hardin for reassuring Faculty Senate that statements made by Gov. Norbert Tiemann questioning the proprie ty of faculty reaction at Dick Gregory's speech will not affect the faculty's free dom of expression. Hardin told faculty members that: "The University's traditions with respect to free expression are well-established and well-known. There are not changes con templated." Such a reassurance from the Chan cellor certainly was needed to bolster the fears of many faculty members. It may be true that there is academic freedom but without reassurances that this free dom will be upheld by the Chancellor, faculty members would have every right to question their continuing effectiveness at the University. But apparently the governor is not so well aware of this academic tradition as Chancellor Hardin believes. Or if Gov. Tiemann is aware of the tradition of academic freedom, he certain ly continues to refute its validity. Although there is little likelihood that Gov. Tiemann will be able to obtain the names of faculty members who reported ly gave a standing ovation to the mili tant civil rights spokesman, there is a principle here that should not be over looked. And the Daily Nebraskan thinks that this principle ought to be made very clear to the governor. The Omaha World-Herald reports that Tiemann said he would want to know "what their (faculty member's) thinking would be in cheering such a remark when their livelihood comes from the Govern ment." One can infer several things from this statement. Perhaps the governor questions why faculty members would cheer a man who advocates burning a land, and ulti mately a government, which supports them. Perhaps this was not what faculty members were cheering . . . maybe they were cheering Gregory's statements re garding the plight of the Negro. But even if the faculty members were cheering the statement about burning the land, then land, then one must weigh carefully wheth er their statements overbalance the right of freedom of expression. One might also infer from the gover nor's statement that he would not have faculty members cheering a controversial speaker because technically they are em ployees of the state. And this definitely 'would be a violation of the freedom of expression and also academic freedom. Tiemann is also quoted by the World Herald as saying that a group of Univer sity sorority pledges he talked to indi cated disgust with Gregory's speech. This is their opinion which they have a right to express as an individual. And should not faculty members have the same right as individuals? Finally the World-Herald story states: "The Governor said he had heard that Mr. Gregory, a Negro who formerly was a professional comedian, had not been taking such a militant stand when ar rangements were initially made for his speech at Lincoln." We would infer from this statement that Gov. Tiemann would have not thought it right for students to hear such a mili tant speaker if they had known him to be that militant when he was booked. If the Nebraskan's inference is cor rect, Gov. Tiemann would be directly contradicting an earlier statement in which he said students have a right to have controversial speakers on campus to provide "an academic experience so that students can make comparisons on peo ple and issues." Lest We . . . Blind, crippled by arthritis and an automobile accident, with a bad heart and chalky white face, the 83-year-old man, walked to the podium with the aid of two men. Then Norman Thomas, six-time So cialist candidate for the presidency, de livered what was billed as his last speech at 200 words per minute. The great dissenter said: "I don't like the sight of young peo ple burning the flag of my country, the country I love. A symbol? If they want an appropriate symbol they should be washing the flag, not burning it. "I don't believe you can get a person to love just by handing him a flower. "We have to rise above (our loyal ties), above our competitive and over lapping loyalties to the values of human ity which should transcend them so we can cooperate and coexist lest we don't exist at all." And he said, Americans have revised the Ten Commandments. The Mosaic Code now reads: "Thou shalt not kill retail; thou shalt kill wholesale at my com mand." Whether his last speech or not the conscience of Norman Thomas will live after him. Reprint from The Minnesota Daily if-H. . -i . .".. -i, -F. .fit v - r - W aw Slrrrrclch Dear Editor: I don't really mind not seeing the Cornhuskers play their games every Saturday. I don't mind spending the game on my feet it's actually warmer if you keep jumping around. I don't mind the policemen, photographers' sons, half time posters or the fired-up players bench that I stretch to see over. I don't even mind that six other Big Eight marching bands sit in the student section, that the NU band has better seats at every contest we travel to see, and that 200 seats out of 65,000 is too much to ask unless we want to pay our own way. What bothers me is the drummer next to me who turns his radio up all the way so he'll know how the game is going. Steve Jordon NU Marching Band CAM OPINI College Costs Skvrocketin WWU. ou joMT Our Man Hoppe Sir Ronald And The Magic Spell Arthur Hoppe Now, kiddies, Daddy's had a hard day at the office and ... no, you can't have daddy's onion. Look, will you stop that caterwauling if Daddy tells you just one more story about Sir Ronald of Holyrood? All right. Let's see, what about the time Sir Ronald fell under a magic spell? Well, then, as you remember, Sir Ron ald and his faithful squire, Sancho Nof ziger, had plunged deep into The Tangled Thicket questing for The Dread Unruh, who lurked somewhere in its thorny depths. But the two had become separated in the murky gloom. "Master, Master!" called Sancho as he trudged along. "Oh, where are you, Master?" Suddenly - CRASH! SMASH! - out of the underbrush on his white charger and waving his Swinging Sword rode Sir Ronald, his eyes glazed, a smile frozen on his handsome lips. "I do not seek the Presidency! I do not seek the Presidency!" cried Sir Ron ald and without pause he cleared a hedge of issues in one mighty leap and vanished CRASH ! SMASH! into the thicket once again. "Oh, 1 fear some evil genius has cast a magic spell over my poor Master," groaned Sancho. "If I could but find who has done this dastardly deed, I could set my Master free." So saying. Sancho faithfully followed the trail Sir Ronald had broken and at last he found him in a clearing. For the noble knight had run headlong into a sturdy Opinion Poll and lay on his back, stunned. "I do not seek the Presidency," mur mured Sir Ronald as consciousness returned. "Oh, Master," said Sancho wringing his hands, "then what are you running for?" "For Decency, for Purity and for Just Plain Goodness! For the greater glory of our beloved GOP! To slay the blood-sucking Welfare. To , . ." As he spoke, Sir Ronald's eyes glazed over once again and his manner was that of a man possessed. "Stop, Master! Stop!" cried Sancho. "I now know the spellbinder who binds you in his magic spell. And if you'll stop talking, it will go away." Sir Ronald restrained himself with great effort and in a few minutes his eyes cleared. "Thank you, faithful Sancho," he said. "1 must remember not to listen when I talk. I shall reward you when I am in the Great White House by making you a prince among men." "Me, a prince?" said Sancho happily. Then he scratched his head. "But verily, you do seek the Presidency after all." "What, varlet, you would question my word?" snapped Sir Ronald, whacking his squire angrily with the flat of his sword. "I do not seek the Presidency!" Then he smiled and winked. "Of course," he said, "if I make enough noise, it may well come seeking me." Sancho thought this over for a mo ment. Slowly, his eyes glazed. Slowly, a frozen smile appeared on his lips. Sud denly, he charged off into the under growth CRASH! SMASH! crying from the top of his lungs, "He does not seek the Presidency! He does not . . ." "In truth. I am a great wizard," said Sir Ronald proudly as he watched him go. "For even Sancho has come under my spell." J Collpfclate Press Service Four-fifths of the nation's state colleges and universi ties (including the Univer sity) have raised tuition, fees and room and board rates this year. A report just issued by the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges and the As sociation of State Colleges and Universities says "There is hardly a student in the country who will pay as much for his freshman year of college as he will ' for his senior year." "Tuition, fees, and room and board charges are ris ing so fast and so often that today's state university senior is paying about 15 percent more for his educa tion this year than he did as a freshman in 1964," the report adds. And that is if you're an instate student. Non-residents are paying 23 percent more than they did as freshmen. The report shows a 6.5 percent increase in in-state tuition and fees at large state universities, from a median of $330 last year to $351.50 this year. Out-of-state tuition went up 8.4 percent from $784 to $850. At smaller institutions, in-state-tuition and fees rose four per cent, from $250 to $260. Out-of-state tuition and fees rose nine percent from $550.50 to $600. Room rates rose sharply at the big schools, increas ing 12 percent for men and 16.3 percent for women Room increases at the smaller colleges and board increases generally were all slightly smaller. The report says there are two major reasons gen erally given by institutions for fee increases : Failure by state gov ernments to appropriate sufficient funds for higher education. Rising costs of food, la bor operation and construc tion. The report also says tui tion increases are often "justified by a desire to keep charges in line with those of comparable neigh boring institutions." The need for more funds to compete for "scarce fac ulty talent," also results in many tuition increases. The report says tuition is now nearly three times as high as it was 20 years ago. And out-of-state fees are going up especially fast. Non-resident students are paying one-third more than they paid in 1964-65. In that year only four large univer sities charged more than $1,000 a ear. This year there an 22. This increase in out-of-state tuition "generally re flects moves to make non resident students pay a larger share of their costs, while state tax funds are devoted to underwriting costs of instruction for resi dent tuitions." University tuition went up $98 yearly for residents and $69 yearly for nonresidents at the beginning of this fall term. Room and board rates in creased from $725 yearly to $800 a year also this fall. University tuition and-or fees have been increased for residents or nonresi dents three times in the past three fall terms. As recently as 1964, Uni versity resident tuition and fees was $132 a semester, compared to the present $217.50 per semester. Boo! KK Dear Editor: tt K.osmfet.Klub is ce again to be congratulated on the finest job of public exploitation to hi the market since root beer fizzies. maricet me nainoow with lyrics stirring enough to evoke m.,,. nes of my favorite ketchup slogan K field mo?,Hf average intelligence, or a sorority pledge, whichever the tion V I the framew"i-k of any general theme and hen adapt appropriate inane lyrics to several sTngs "o tell the mane tale. What we have in the KK Fall Show K tha" a fi' blatantoSc'K The delight that did ErS? Vt r Und Cmainl 'becausV o "k. ubee forts. The absence of MC's and their tirf n.m. , . u.,u n f M CUiCllCU. What rfictllt'hl; m. nl I-, i, . lnadeauarr hut r".uV" K its horrifying awarded whv rrr . r 1, .-!8 st b mark- tho thw, .. u V uu nave me auaience Trlt Z Kthey Wd the most. Another al- awarded why not print ballots and hav mark the three skits thev n tentative might be to taporttoleShSn and let them award the prizes. Perhaps some of the mon cy which goes to advertise the pompous election of King Kong and M()thcr of Eartn be diverted or this nur! ON -On Dear Editor: Because a group of administrators has chosen to cling with fanatical Insistence to a circa 1937 misconception of the nature and effects of marijuana, an Intelligent sopho more has been dismissed from school; his future financial Independence seriously jeapordized, If not effectively de stroyed; and his dossier turned over to police officials, so that an "Investigation," complete with paid spies, can be launched by a cow-country entrepreneur-turned-legislator. The cheerful readiness of bureaucrats to bargain away an individual student's liberty, education and livelihood for their own Idea of what constitutes moral behavior is never a novelty on American university campuses. But it Is always just as frightening. Trrry T. Tiliord Louisa Tilford Dear Editor: Once there was a Dean. "You've committed a serious crime, my son. and we will have to suspend you. It's for your own good. But we might let you withdraw," Then the benvolent Dean took steps to insure that the student lost his job and could not return to the school he hoped to graduate from. But It obviously for the Student's own good. "You should really see a psychiatrist." And a few years before a psychiatrist told him. "I tried this thing once and It was good. I doh't think it would hurt you to do It." So Student tried It and It was good. FACTS nonaddlctive. less harmful than alcohol or to bacco (and chaapor), perceptive high, drawn-out time sense. "Yes, but sometimes it is cut with dangerous drugs." Is that really your concern? Really and truly? We made it ourselves and we promise that it isn't. OPINION The natural beauty and intrinsic humor bubbles through and dissolves in giggles and laughter. An escape much more potent, much more beautiful, much more valuable than alcohol. Apparently It is not the act of doing it, but muking it availuble if others want to do It that is a crime. The Dean seems to feel Student is the source and, for the good of the community, the source must be destroyed. But if the effect is not a crime, why is supplving it a crime? "Well . . . you see . . . uh . . . urn. well I don't really know but I am iiure that there is a good reason." Meanwhile, back at the Source, Stu's life Is disinte grating under the watchful, interested, concerned eyes of the Dean. "It's for your own good, Stu, I'm sure you under stand." The last I saw of Stu, he was wandering glassy eyed Into the setting sun muttering "Equality under the law. equality under the law, equal . . ." Funny, that's what it says on the Nebraska State Seal. Nigel Robertson Dour Editor: This Is a copy of a letter sent to Dean Ross. I bi'lleve that the concern of an educator should be wholly Intellectual and not disciplinary. The recent action by the University against a stu dent who was caught with mrljuana should out Lavs Pot- diverted for this pur- u.,iiIfuNaVe V"',6 d!lUbt' howevw. that this woeful plea will fall on deulcned ears. Quite regretfully, Fall KK has SeK-K ha SR d," fr al) -"Pcial flowers hence KK has little problem in drawing a crowd in (')"I,ll!d!with K' P"me preoccupation of mak mg a buck ior wine and steak dinners, leaves little hope rlvrt1in!tTn?Ke,thiln(Eill.Vick,,ck und 8 herd rf buffalo cavorting to the best from "My Fair Lady." Rodney P. Romig Gov. Tiemann- KK been taken. If the student was competent in academic work he should have been allowed to continue in school. I believe that the administration has the duty to in form proper authorities if there is an breaking of laws, but the action of dismissal from school should be associated only with academic work. The University is an educational institution and not a social acceptability school. If the administration would concern itself with the problems of making education more effective Instead of worrying about disciplinary action the result would be advantageous to society and to education. The University should not assume the duties of the police or parents. The current university policy on drugs is beyond the school's authority. Donald Hunter 4I Cheered' Mr Gregory is to be praised for his lucid and poignant characterization of one of the most serious mor Se confronting this nation today. James H. Walters Instructor of Philosophy Daily Nebraskan Vol. 1, No. M Nov. t. 1B6T wnM-lM Mim pais Uneom. flab. TtlcphoM: Bumimw 472.2M8. New. 472.2UH. rdltor 47-i-MO fethaertptka raw ai t mmr m. Ilahad Monday, W5nd.,. Thunalw and r tJSSS'JS"'mSi HirMdlatlaa 1 tha Paaulb fat.mil u2" halt ha Iraa from eanaorelitD b th inhM- Putolteationa MUMa Joa Uaivaratcy. H.mb.r. at In. Natfaafeu PanUoattoaa. am taaaoaalMa tar what Umr UmXn A Undated Colteflate reia, ItatMoal ajimiiii-i.- - -rat. rubl!.h.d a, Room .1, N,b,..M vVu?Z 1 ' KIHTOBIta MAFT Dear Editor: This Is a copy of a letter sent to Gov. Norbrrt Tie mann. A recent editorial in the Daily Nebraskan, Nov. 3. indicates that you would be very Interested in having the names of all those faculty members of the University who. us the editorial phrases it. "cheered" Dick Gregory. 1 am writing to you to indicate that I was a faculty member who attended Mr. Gregory's lecture. Moreover. I should like to say that 1 believe most all of his points fJSSSSSTcSSff sWJSSK rT were well argued and rationally supported; and as a con- cm h ammit: mib-mm ulZ, JI ."T' T0' euence, I could not fail to concur with them and "cheer." &"uiL&& S'ZaSSZ OIINRM RAFF