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
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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
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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."
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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
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forts. The absence of MC's and their tirf n.m. ,
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mark- tho thw, .. u V uu nave me auaience
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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
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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.
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