.1 i y u u f j Thursday November 30, 1967 University of Nebraska Vol. 91, No. 43 i ARCHWS3 I T - Y i 1 . ,.. &JV'& nnnmr : ' ii. -.m n ' ; " ' ' S M ' i. A r j 1 DR. ALLEN PICKERING . . . Tuesday evening at the RAM speakers program advises young people to be better prepared "to face the experience of growing up." Students Must Face Dilemma Pickering Challenges Youth To Adulthood Dr. Allan Pickering, direc tor of the United Ministries in Higher Education, told stu dents Tuesday night that it is time for the University to stop playing games and start providing and maintaining ed ucation ;that will "better pre pare our young people to face the experience of growing up." Pickering was the second guest in a series of speaker programs at Selleck Quad rangle sponsored by the RAM Faculty-Student Coordination Committee. He challenged about 125 students to face a dilemma involving what he termed the rites of passage from youth to adulthood. He said that the present rites are not structured to point out the risks involved for a young person making the transition. Consequently, he said that youth enter into these rites haphazardly. Pickering specifically point ed to the dangers of pre marital sex, over-drinking and the use of LSD and oth er hallucinogenic drugs. He said when a youth seeks to experience the effects and sensations of such rites of passage that he is trying to effect some degree of authori ty for himself in order to make himself appear more adult. Pickering pointed out four rites of passage prevalent in today's society. He said that if a young person is going to make the transition from youth to adulthood, he must own or have access to an automobile that he can con trol completely. Youth secondly must be able to drink in company with his or her friends, even if it is done with an I.D. card that is illegal or forged, he said. Pickering said the third rite of passage is associated with sleeping with one of the opposite sex whether it is with affection or not, prefer ably with so you can tell your friends about the ex perience. Pickering said higher edu cation must be more atten tive to these rites of passage. He added that a university is relevant to society only when it is a leader in society by trying to shape sociological trends, including the transi tions youth choose to undergo to become adults. He added that if a univer sity feels it can change an in dividual for the betterment of that individual and his society, then the university has the re sponsibility for effecting that change. Pickering said he wanted real sex education in schools and colleges; mors research. on drugs, since, he said, our society has become drug ori ented; and more education on the effects of alcohol. He said he would tend to define marriage today as a contract based on two per sons' relationship with one an other. Previously it was a legal committment, he said, and now it is a psychologi cal committment where the ceremony has become secon dary. "It is no longer important for a young person contem plating marriage to have grandma's approval; and it has become less important to that person whether his reli gious or ethnic background coincides with that of his fu ture partner," Pickering said. The campus minister said there are definite risks when encountering these rites of passage and "more education is needed to point out these risks and understand the real consequences." "In the process," he con tinued, "we can look for bet ter substitutes as well as so lutions to existing problems and better prepare our young people to face this experience of growing up." Pickering said that once so lutions are found to existing problems in the r i t e s of pas sage now adopted, new prob lems would continually be discovered with the rise of new rites adopted by future generations. "I don't see any absolute solutions," he said, "but I do see a university that can maintain education that is relevant to the rites of pas sage that are accepted at any point in time." Indiana Prof Lectures Today On Revolution Prof. Bernard S. Morris of Indiana University will lecture at a symposium on the Bolshevik Revolution Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union Audito rium. The symposium is spon sored by the University Political Science Dept. and the Nebraska Career Schol ars Program. Morris received his for mal education at Clark Uni versity and Yale. He has been a political analyst in the Organization and Propa ganda Analysis Unit of the U.S. Department of Justice. For 15 years he was an intelligence specialist in the U.S. Department of State, where he headed a Com mittee on world Com vaivuhvn. Twelpe Colleges and Universities Seek Solutions to Joint Problems Student government repre sentatives from 12 Nebraska universities and colleges will seek solutions to common problems on the state cam puses in a meeting at the University this weekend. Nebraska Student Govern m e n t Association (NSGA) President Rich Thompson said Wednesday that 54 dele gates are expected to attend the two-day conference. "The purpose of the whole organization," Thompson, a University of Nebraska se nior, said, "is to give the in dividual student governments a chance to have an inter change of ideas with other student governments. "And this conference," he added, "is the primary means of enabling the governments to do this." Represented at the confer ence, which starts Friday morning, will be the Univer sity of Nebraska, Omaha Uni versity, Doane College, Hi ram Scott College, Dana Col lege, Hastings College, Persh ing College, McCook Junior College, Norfolk Junior Col lege and Wayne, Chadron and Five Groups May Back Freedoms Advocates of a clearer statement of student rights may soon get strong support from five of the nation's lead ing professional groups con cerned with higher education, according to Lawrence Pos ton, a member of the Ameri can Association of University Professors (AAUP). The five groups the AAUP, the Association of American Colleges, the National Asso ciation of Student Personnel Administrators, the National Student Association and the National Association of Wom en Deans and Counselors are presently considering the adoption of a "Joint State ment on Rights and Free doms of Students." The statement, proposed by a committee representing the five groups, includes sections dealing with a student's free dom of access, student rec ords, student affairs, off-campus freedom and discipline. If the various groups en dorse the statement it will become their policy position, G. Robert Ross, dean of stu dent affairs, explained. This policy position would be of use to "anyone who is interested in the thinking of professional people in high er education" concerning stu dent rights, Ross said. He indicated the National Association of Student Per sonnel Administrators, to which the University belongs, will probably act on the poli cy statement later this year. Poston said the AAUP is submitting the statement to its membership for ratifica tion. The other groups are ex pected to follow a similar procedure in endorsing the statement. The student rights state ment is reprinted in full on page 2. PTP Will Sponsor Program People to People in con junction with the University Office of Foreign Students is sponsoring a program where by students may host a for eign student during the Cbristmas holidays, accord ing to Pam Kot. president of Peonle to People. The program, which has been carried on for the past few years is designed to pro vide foreign students with a home over Christmas, days during the vacation should contact Linda Baum burger in People to People or the Foreign Student Office. At Peru State Colleges. The number of schools rep resented will be the largest ever, according to Thompson. Highlighting the conference will be speeches by Dr. Rob ert Manley of Hiram Scott College and Gov. Norbert Tie mann. Manley will speak Fri day evening at the NSGA ban quet and Tiemann will ad dress the group at a Saturday luncheon. Both will probably speak on the role of the college student in government, Thompson said. P. L p fit. V 'V , - Ky i If THE NEW FOLK . . . singers will present a concert at Pershing Auditorium Saturday. Professional Folk Singing Group New Folk To Appear In Concert Saturday Evening At Pershing The New Folk will appear at 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 9, at Pershing Municipal Audi torium for a two hour con cert sponsored by the Campus Crusade for Christ. Alan Wibbels, a member of the Campus Crusade, said the New Folk will present unique sounds of currently popular and traditional folk songs. The New Folk, a profes sional folk singing group, has performed throughout the United States and Canada, according to Wibbels. He Schulze By DAVE BUNTAIN Senior Staff Writer Student Senate President Richard Schulze told ASUN Wednesday he has appointed a committee to "evaluate the various means of electing stu dent senators." Schulze said he was prompt ed to appoint the group "be cause several students have expressed concern about the present basis of representa tion." The committee, headed by Bruce Bailey, will evaluate and contrast the present sys tem of representation by col lege with a "district-based" election system, Schulze said. CLOSER CONTACT He suggested that electing student senators from living unit districts might place the senators in closer contact with their constituency. "The question has been asked: 'do you really identify with the people in your col lege or are you more likely to identify with the people from where you live?'" On S NSGA Conference The representatives will also be able to attend discus sion groups and consider res olutions that may come out of the discussions, he said. TOPICS Thompson said the discus sion topics will be: Student evaluation of fac ulty. Possibility of a state-wide selection committee for enter tainment and speakers. State higher education commission. Joint effort proposals to the legislature. swmiiii i. . ilimumbmiib m mmmmmmammm m H 7 Vj r i R vjvn -"c-SJ v added that the eight member group formed in 1966 at the University of Minnesota. Tickets are on sale for $1.50, $2.25, and $2.75 in the Nebraska Union and at Persh ing Auditorium. They may also be purchased at the door De. 9. Wibbels said that two record albums by the New Folk are on sale in the Union. The New Folk will appear in Nebraska at Kearney State College, the University of Omaha and Nebraska Wesley- Appoints Committee tiident Senators Election Schulze said. The group will probably be gin by studying the report of the 1964-65 convention which created the present Senate arrangement, he ex plained. COMMITTEE Four Senators were ap pointed to the committee in addition to Bailey John Hall, Bill Mobley, Bob Peterson and Loren Schulze. In other Senate activity Sen. Tom Morgan presented his final report on the Faculty-Evaluation booklet. IMPROVEMENTS Morgan outlined the activi- t ties of the past year, point ing to the major improve ments in this year's book: the numbr of instructors who volunteered to be evalu ated almost doubled; a revised questionnaire enabled the booklet writers to examine more aspects of a teacher's presentation; the book was profession ally printed to allow faster publication. Drugs on campus. Regulation of student con duct. , Student government pow er. F r e s h m a n orienta tion programs. Campus judicial systems. Student - administration communications. Financing higher educa tion. Role of student govern ment in educational reform. RESOLUTIONS The discussion topic com mittees will conduct investi 7. f i I . tJL - tm.. m A. 4 1 " .muni -i . . an this week, according to Wibbels. The Campus Crusade for Christ is an international or ganization which was formed in 1951 at U.C.L.A., Wibbels said. He noted that it is active on over 500 major college cam puses in the United States and in 40 foreign countries. The Crusade functions to present the claims of Christ to college students in a clear way, according to Wibbels. Over 30,000 college students Morgan said 400 booklets have been sold since they were released, adding that an additional 400 must be sold if the Senate is to keep its Faculty-Evaluation expenses below the 500 dollars budget ed for the program. Several senators wanted the evaluation program to be ex panded to include evaluations of all faculty members. Mor gan said such a system is feasible but would entail much greater administrative loads for the committee and would require stronger student sup port. Sen. Phil Boardman sug gested that future evaluations be made on a departmental basis and utilize the gradu ate students in these depart ments. NEW CHAIRMAN A chairman for next year's faculty-evaluation committee will be chosen in the next' week to ten days, according to Vice President Gene Po korny. In other business, Sen. gations into their respective areas, Thompson indicated, with resolutions probably re sulting from them. The NSGA will also elect new officers at the confer ence. Thompson felt the NSGA was successful this past year because "the organization has been made a more first-rate representative of student opinion." The results of the confer ence will reflect this with sig nificant accomplishments, ha predicted are actively involved in the work of the organization, he said. The Crusade was organized on campus last year, Wibbels said. He noted that the or ganization plans to sponsor various programs and speak ers throughout the year as the group expands. Ed Murray, a University student, is state director of the Campus Crusade for Christ, according to Wibbels. Over 200 students in Nebraska par ticipate. Cheryl Adams announced the schedule for the Model United Nations session to be con ducted Dec. 8 and 9 at the Nebraska Center for Contin uing Education. She said that the Model UN activities will begin Dec. 3 with the start of Model UN Week across Ne braska. Student senators passed a government bill creating a Faculty Senate Liason com mittee to improve communi cations between ASUN and the faculty group. FORM COMMITTEE President Schulze an nounced that the Ad Hoc Com mittee on Military and Busi ness Recruiting has recom mended the formation of an all-University committee , to study the problem. The committee has learned that "the University does not have a definite policy on cam pus recruiting," he said. Schulze is in the process of contacting people to partici pate in the ail-University In vestigatory croup, h 6 - 'J t it' h