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K i fy K- f. Monday, December 1 1 , University of Nebraska 49 7 Senate Sends Modified Resolution Student Senate will present to the Regents Monday a mod ified verson of its resolution concerning Gen. Lewis Her shey's selective service direc tive. In two special sessions this weekend the Senate revoked the military recruitment re solution it passed Wednesday and substituted a measure ex pressing its concern over Her shey's directive. The new resolution deleted any reference to on-campus military recruiters, urging the Board of Regents to "com municate the displeasure of the University of Nebraska to Hershey's directive to the President of the United States and to the draft boards in the state of Nebraska." This resolution, approved Sunday by a 14-10 vote, fol lowed action taken in a spec Impact Of Possible Merger Not Immediately Apparent EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the fourth and concluding part of a series on the proposed NU OU merger. By ED ICENOGLE Senior Staff Writer When University students go to class Wednesday, very few will realize that they are no longer attending the Uni versity of Nebraska. This is the prediction of Dr. Kirk Naylor, president of IDA Council Approves J. 11 T tDll A unanimous vote of the Inter -Dormitory Association Council approved a resolu tion Thursday requesting that AWS investigate the function of dormitory student assis tants in regard to the en forcement of AWS rules. The resolution, according to IDA President Brian Ride nour, requests that the AWS Boards alted a paragraph on page 14 of the AWS hand book, Focus on Coeds, which ranks residence directors and student assistants above AWS representatives under the en forcement Bection of AWS rules. "There was very- little op position to the resolution," Ridenour reported, "although there was some question as to whether dorm executives should aid the AWS represen tatives in rule enforcement." The council decided that each floor should determine if their representative needs assis tance, he said. The resolution was first in troduced by Tom Briggs at the Nov. 9 Council meeting which tabled it. It concerns the same issue as a resolu JSC- Good Night, Phil . ial session Friday to recon sider the resolution previous ly approved. The original measure, pass ed by a 25-3 margin, urged the Regents to suspend cam pus military recruiting pro grams "until such time as Hershey's directive is re scinded." ASUN first vice-president Gene Pokorny said the spec ial meeting Friday was called to give the senators a chance to reconsider the initial reso lution. "It was pretty obvious that some senators were no long er supporting it," he said af ter the Friday meeting. "It seems senseless to go before the Board of Regents Monday without knowing what the Students believe." In the first special session, the Senate split on a vote to the University of Omaha, which will merge with the University of Nebraska if the Omaha voters approve the measure Tuesday. NU would then become the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and OU would be called the University of Ne braska at Omaha. NO IMPACT But that will be the only immediate affect, according to On JLJL JL 1, s . . . By Unanimous Vole tion approved by the Smith Hall Cabinet last Monday stating that AWS rules should be enforced by AWS repre sentatives, not dormitory stu dent assistants. The Smith Resolution pro vided that the change in AWS rule enforcement go into ef fect on Dec. 9. In other business Ridenour reported that Thursday the Faculty Committee on Stu dent Affairs gave their con ditional approval of the IDA Constitution. 4'The committee recom mended two major revi sions," the president ; ex plained, "one answering the question, 'should people of non-member dormitories be eligible to join IDA?' and an other revision providing for the voluntary withdrawal of dormitories from the organ ization." Final approval of the constitution will be given pending these revisions and a few other changes in word ing. Ridenour said. The IDA , president an nounced that Smith Hall voted 195-22 last week in fa vor; of joining IDA. Smith is . . Good Night, Dick. To Regents reconsider the resolution and Pokorny, as president of the Senate, voted to reconsider, thereby nullifying the first resolution. At that time an alternate resolution was proposed by Sen. Mike Jess. Following lengthy, and often heated dis cussion, the Senate rejected the alternative by a vote of 15-13. Immediately after the vot ing, six senators walked out of the meeting, halting busi ness for want of a quorum. Lacking a quorum, the Sen ate voted to meet again on Sunday. "It was despicable to walk out in the middle of the dem ocratic p r o c e s s," Pokorny said Friday. Senators Mike Jess, John Wirth. Tom Gree. Jim Wobig, John Jorgenson and Dennis Naylor, who predicts the mer ger will be approved with overwhelming support. Classes will continue as al ways and the impact of the merger will not be felt for quite a while, if at all, in Lin coln. The affect on higher educa tion in the state, however, will be considerable, he said last week while discussing the O jr JL UL iX XJr x Jt the first of the three dormi tories in the new complex to join IDA. Harper Hall will vote on Thursday and Schramm .has not set a date for voting on their dormi tory's membership in IDA. Jerry McCrery announced there will be a leadership seminar Dec. 16 between 9 a.m. and 12 noon at the Ne braska Union for all dormi tory officers. Ken Stoner, the national president of the National As sociation of College and Uni versity Residence Halls, will give the keynote address on the future of an Inter-Dormi-tory Association, McCrery said, and ASUN President Dick Schulze will address the group. The activities chairman reported the committee col lected 325 football tickets for the Oklahoma game which were given to Whitehall Or phanage and other people. Ridenour reported the NACURH has invited the Uni versity IDA to it's National Conference to be held at Pennsylvania State in March 011968 4 Sfhulte. all of whom voted to reconsider and for Friday's alternate resolution, were the senators who walked out. Schulte said Sunday that it was the purpose of the group "to give most of the people time to think and more time to talk to their constituents." He said he didn't think that the delay could have been ac complished through parlimen tary procedure. When the Senate reconvened Sunday, Sen. Robert Weaver proposed the resolution which was approved. Voting in favor of the reso lution were Senators Adams, Schrieber, Augustin, B a r t e Deitemeyer, Larson, Board man, Gree. Naden, Juricek, Wirth, Schulze, Schulte and Waver. ramifications of the proposed merger. "This will be a look at ed ucation in Nebraska in its to tality," he said. Naylor out lined several benefits the mer ger would have on education: BENEFITS a unified university sys tem would exist the transferral of credits would be facilitated some Omaha students would find it to their advan tage to take some courses at the Omaha campus the possibility of advan tageous cooperation between the University of Nebraska at Omaha and the University of Nebraska College of Medicine would be created graduate study could be facilitated; library holdings would be shared and profes sors with unique specialties could be working at both campuses. OPPOSITION Support and opposition to the merger has been voiced in the Nebraska legislature, with Omaha Sen. Henry F. Pedersen vocalizing major opposition. Pedersen contends that the OU is a municipal school and should remain the property of the city of Omaha. At the same time he appeal to the "outstate" Nebraskans, asking "why should Omaha give its burden to the state?" NO STUDY Others have voiced concern about the merger, but on very different grounds. Sen. Eric Rasmussen said in the Legislature last "spring, when the Unicameral approv ed the merger, that the state was entering into the combi nation of the schools without adequate study. Pedersen agreed to this, as did Sen. John Knight of Lin coln. COORDINATION Knight now heads the state's Commission for Study of Higher Education. The group has been charged with Cont. on Pg. 3 Col. 1 l1lllllli1tltlI1ll1Hlt1tllIlltlllTTIItMIIMIIIIIMfll1ll(llllt':ifirilllllltlllltHUit;tllllltl IIIIIIIIMtM t ri ItlllllinilllMIMlIllllll lllIlllMtflMlllllllMlltlllllliltlltlll tf iiiiiti.iiinintntK - I Goldberg Telegram I Lauds Model UN I By JAN PARKS and CHRISTIE SCHWARTZKOPF Junior Staff Writers Panama hats and Turkish fezzes, occasional outbursts from over-excited delegates and the scurrying of pages be tween tables set the pace lor the University's first Model United Nations Friday and Saturday. Arthur J. Goldberg. U.S. ambassador to the U.N., sent a telegram to the University's first Model UN extending his best wishes. The telegram, which w a s read at the first session, con cluded by saying, efforts such as "yours contribute much to an informed and realistic un derstanding of the long task before us in extending the rule of law in the world." FIRST YEAR "For a first year Model United Nations, the University of Nebraska has done an ex cellent job," stated Dick Korn blith, a representative of the Secretariat of the Midwestern Model UN. Cheryl Adams. Model UN chairman, said, "the delega tions had some confusion on parliamentary procedure, but overall the countries were well represented and I was ex tremely happy with the way things went for the first year." The chairman felt that en thusiasm for the Model UN greatly increased during the two days as indicated by a ROLL CALL ... as delegates to the Model UN cast their votes. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIH s Dr. Curtis Elliott Nominated I For Daily Nebraskan Award Dr. Curtis M. Elliott has been nominated for the Out standing Kebraskan award which is sponsored by the Daily Nebraskan. Awards for the outstanding University professor and out standing University student are presented each semester on the basis of outstanding contributions and service they have given to the Univer sity. the letter of nomination fur Dr. Elliott cites his achieve ments as: consultant to the State Insurance Commission, and educational consultant to the National Association of Insurance Agents. standing ovation at the con cluding session of the Model UN. VALUE Commenting on the value of the Model UN, delegate De ann Erks said, "the Model UN gets you to divorce your self from looking at things through the eyes of the U.S. and lets you see things from a world view." "I've visited the UN in New York before." Hod Kosman, a delegate of Nationalist China, said, "but I've never really realized how the UN operates until now." Miss Adams said that the foreign students who partici pated in the Model UN made a great contribution. "I came to the Model UN to learn the opinion of other countries." said WaiTio Huluka, an Ethi opian student, "and now I know them much better." THINK Bill Mobley, a delegate from Greece said, "The biggest thing to learn in a Model UN is to think like other coun tries, and it's hard." "It's fun to go through dip lomatic channels." Gary Sieck a Rumanian delegate com mented, "sometimes making enemies." Ron Alexander of the United Arab Republic delegation said "My position as an Arab is very different from the posi tion the U.S. usually takes, and it has been 'erv educational." RESOLUTIONS The Model UN dealt with - - - He has also been the ma jor instructor at the annual Insurance Management School of the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies at Purdue University. He has presented a sixteen unit series of programs on in surance over KUON-TV, par ticipates in a number of Ex tension institutes on insur surance seminars for the Ex tension Division, the letter continues. He is the author of three books, including "Property and Casualty Insurance" which has been used as a col lege text. He is also the au thor of. more than 200 articles resolutions on the following subjects: Chinese representa tion, violation of human rights in South Viet Nam, the Israeli-Arab c o n f 1 i c t, and South west Africa. Although the resolution ad vocating Communist China's representation garnered a ma jority of the votes, it was de feated because of a previous decision that deemed the is sue an important question re quiring a two-thirds vote to pass. A heated debate met the Viet Nam resolution concern ing the violation of human rights in South Viet Nam. An amendment proposed by Boli via urging that all .North Vietnamese troops withdraw from South Viet Nam. was passed, then recalled due to confusion of the delegates. In its place, an amendment proposed by Sweden urging that all non-South Vietnamese troops in South Viet Nam be gradually withdrawn under the conditions stipulated by the 1959 Geneva Accords was passed. Two other resolutins were passed. The Israsli-Arab reso lution endorsed a cease-f i r e and withdrawal of forces from areas not part of their coun tries prior to military oper ations in June, 1967. The strongly worded South West Africa resolution de manded that the administra tion of South-West Africa be turned over to a UN Commission. on insurance. Dr. Elliott served as Uni versity actuary for 15 jears, was chairman of the person nel committee for non-academic personnel and helped establish the present non-academic personnel department. Dr. Elliott has been a mem ber of the University faculty for the past 26 years. . The Outstanding Nebras Icans are selected each semes ter by the staff of the Daily Nebraskan. Deadline for letters of nom ination, to be received at the Daily Nebraskan office, room 51 Nebraska Union, is S:00 p.m. Dec. 13. I ft- iff . Cf V V"- ft ii 4 is. I' t 1! ? c I t i.; i r I 2? 1 r T.