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University of Nebraska
Vol. 91, No. 57
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Hyde Park: Ailing or de
ceased? Hyde Park
success
examined
Forum scheduled
to gain opinions
The future of Hyde Park will be
determined by the success of the
Forum held on Feb. 15, accord
ing to Carol Madson, Union Talks
and Topics Chairman.
Although the announcement to
discontinue the program generated
little student interest, Hyde Park
will be held one more time on a
trial basis, she said. If the stu
dent reaction to next week's pro
gram is small. Hyde Park will
probably be discontinued perman
ently. Miss Madson urged students to
attend the forum and to voice
their opinions on the perpetration
of the program and on other is
sues such as open houses.
Hyde Park is an opportunity for
students to take a stand on the
things they complain about, she
said.
Towards the end of the semes
ter Hyde Park got to be a "one
or two man show," according to
Miss Madson. For this reason,
and due to the lack of new is
sues to discuss, the program was
closed.
Also commenting on the death
of Hyde Park was student sena
tor Al Spangler. He felt that the
forum unfortunately died a natur
al death, but that as long as some
students remained interested, the
program should be continued.
nu student
dies after
car crash
James G. Rosenberger, a Uni
versity of Nebraska student, died
Tuesday morning from injuries
sustained in a one-car accident at
33rd and Sheridan Blvd. Satur
day. Rosenberger, 19, was the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald G. Rosen
berger of 2828 Stratford in Lin
coln. Jeffrey A. Cole, 19, the driver
of the vehicle, and Scott Rose, 19,
also a passenger, are still in criti
cal condition at Lincoln General
Hospital.
The accident occurred when the
car struck a power pole, plunged
through a barricade and rolled
down a hill
SAF
on University relationships
by Mark Gordon
Senior Staff Writer
The Student Academic Freedom
(SAF) committee is aiming at a
mid-March deadline to complete its
document stating the relationships
of faculty, administration and stu
dent body, committeeman and
ASUN Vice President Gene Pokorny
said this week.
The committee, composed of two
representatives from the faculty,
administration and student body,
has prepared one complete draft
of the document and has finished
other partial drafts, he said.
After the group's Monday meet
ing, Pokorny said the committee
has progressed further along to
wards its goal than at any previ
ous time.
"The statement reads quite
well," he said, "I'm convinced
we will have no problem in meet
ing the deadline."
Group continues work
He added the six-man commit
tee would continue refining the
ASUN redisricting committee . . .
'Some senators are not
representing students '
by John Dvorak
Junior Staff Writer
Some student senators are not
representing their constituents ac
. cording to Bob Peterson, a mem
ber of the ASUN Redisricting
Committee.
"Students don't know their sena
tor .. . many people are con
cerned with the present system of
electing their representatives,"
commented Andy Rasmussen, an
other committee member.
The Redisricting Committee,
appointed last December by Stu
dent Senate President Dick
Schulze, is evaluating various
means of electing student sena
tors. Committee members besides Pe
terson and Rasmussen are Mike
Eyster, Bill M o b 1 e y, Loren
Schulze, John Hall and Bruce
Bailey, chairman.
Voting difficult
Presently, students vote for rep
resentatives through colleges.
However, this system has several
problems, according to committee
members:
Senators are not close enough
to their constituents.
Some students feel they are
not being represented.
Students do not identify with
colleges, they identify with living
units.
District representation
The main alternative being stud
ied is district representation. Cam
pus living units would be appor
tioned into sections with 450-500
students per district. Each district
would elect one senator. Under
Ross clarifies .
University policy on drugs;
doesn 9t 'sweep it under rug9
by Jim Evinger
Senior Staff Writer
Vice Chancellor G. Robert Ross,
dean of student affairs, clarified
Tuesday the University's role in
determining cases of drug abuse
on campus.
Ross's statements were partly
in response to charges made by
State Senator Terry Carpenter of
Scottsbluff that there is widespread
drug abuse on campus and that
the University is attempting to
"sweep it under the rug."
The University has reported the
two known cases this year of stu
dents using marijuana, Ross ex
plained. He said the only policy
the University takes is to give
these facts and any rumors to the
Highway Patrol.
Carpenter has accused Univer
to complete document
document at next Monday's meet
ing. "We've had good discussions,
and I see no areas of major con
flict," he said. "It's just a matter
of getting it down in writing."
The ASUN vice president ex
plained that the majority of the
committee's efforts thus far have
centered around academic areas
since that is most important with
the students.
"We may criticize our discip
linary proceedings on this cam
pus, but at least we do have a
process whereas in academic mat
ters we don't even have a begin
ning," he said.
"Academics well covered"
He said now that the academic
area has "been pretty well cov
ered, we are hoping we can com
plete the document by the middle
of March."
He said the document, which
implements the Student Bill of
Rights into University policy, will
be written differently from the
the district system students would
be more acquainted with senators
said Rasmussen.
"Off-campus students would be
a problem," said Schulze. "They
could be thrown into one district,
or we could divide Lincoln into
several districts."
Goals of representation
Other plans being considered by
the committee are the election of
senators at large ,and a com-
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1 On Campus ... 1
Today
The newly revised AWS Consti
tution passed its first test Tuesday
by gaining approvel of the AWS
Board.
The Board's approval concludes
a four-month revision by the Con
stitutional Convention and the
document now goes to AWS mem
bers for ratification Ia'er this
month.
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The AWS Second Semester Activ
ities Mart will be held in the Union
Ballroom from 11a.m. to 4 p.m.
Wednesday.
Dr. Ivan Volgyes, assistant pro
fessor of political science, will show
politically-oriented movies on the
Soviet Union at the University's
Russian Club meeting Wedneseday
at 7:30 p.m. in room 103 of Build
ing H.
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Student Senate will meet at 4
p.m. Wednesday in the Union Con
ference Rooms.
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sity faculty and administration of
withholding information from the
Board of Regents as to the degree
of drug use.
Ross said the University can
only report "what we hear as ru
mor, and what we know as fact."
He said it was the collective re
sponsibility of faculty, administra
tion and students to report drug
abuse, rather than any single ele
ment of the University community.
Asked if the Highway Patrol,
solely charged by state law to en
force drug and narcotic laws,
could make use of undercover
agents on campus without the
knowledge of the University, Ross
replied, "it certainly could."
He also paid the Highway Pa
trol c o o 1 d employ undercover
Bill of Rights, which was ap
proved as 17 amendments to the
ASUN constitution at last spring's
ASUN elections.
He said the document, organized
as an outline of the University
community's method of operation,
is "a set of expectations and re
sponsibilities that the three parts
of the community have on each
other and the total community."
Statement to contain expectations
Pokorny added that the state
ment would contain what is ex
pected from both faculty and stu
dents, and what these groups ex
pect for themselves.
"The key right, at least in my
mind, is the right to acquire know
ledge," he said describing the
committee's main goal in writing
the paper.
Although the paper contains pol
icy on academic matters between
student-teacher classroom rela
tions, it also includes a non-classroom
portion discussing such items
as disciplinary proceedings. The
bination of district and college
representation, according to Bail
ey. Possibly, the present system
could be modified. Under one plan
senators would set up office hours
when they would be available to
talk with constituents.
"If you are a student you should
call your senator," said Hall. "Stu
dents aren't always getting that
chance now."
"We want to find a system
where we will have near-equal
representation, the best senators
possible, and a good relationship
between senators and constitu
ents," said Hall.
Committee alternatives
The committee is discussing the
goals of representation in a gen
eral sense said Peterson. The
committee is also studying student
government in other schools and a
report by the 1964 ASUN commit
tee which created the present sen
ate arrangement.
The University of Missouri has
a district type with over 200 sena
tors. But it is not working; there
are too many senators, Schulze
said. Some student senates in the
Nebraska state colleges are just
social groups he said.
We want to encourage students
to take part in student govern
ment. Some people just don't care,
but a workable system must be
provided for those who are inter
ested said Hall.
The committee will make its
recommendations to the senate in
March. Any proposed amendments
must be approved by the senate
and then voted on by the students
in the spring election.
agents without the University re
questing them.
This points to the fact, he em
phasized, that it is up to the High
way Patrol to enforce the law
through investigation and prosecu
tion. It is not up to the University
to actively seek to discover the
abuse of drugs on campus, he
said.
Ross addressed a reply to Car
penter, saying it would be a great
help to the University community
if Carpenter would report any
documented evidence he has to
the Highway Patrol.
Ross said it was not a question
of the University gathering evi
' dence. He added that any action
taken by the University would
hopefully be a potential deterrent
to drug abuse.
ASUN executive said the commit
tee's final statement would be sub
mitted to the Chancellor who
would then make a decision on
further action on the document.
Although the Bill of Rights re
ceived overwhelming support from
the electorate last spring, he said
it was just an expression of stu
dent opinion.
"Bill means nothing"
"It really doesn't mean any
thing until it becomes University
policy," he said. "This is why our
document will be an improvement
over the Bill of Rights, because
hopefully it will become policy."
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Ernie Chambers, Civil rights activist: "Negroes have no al
ternative. I am for fighting back."
Ernie Chambers . . .
'Negro not member
of today's society'
by Jim Pederscn
Junior Staff Writer
While white students sit in class
and worry about their next date,
Negro students must worry about
their families and their future,
according to Ernie Chambers, an
Omaha civil rights activist, who
spoke at Selleck Quadrangle Mon
day night.
Chambers told several hundred
students that Negroes are not a
part of American society and are
not citizens of the United States
because their rights are not pro
tected. The comments by the Omahan
were made in a question and an
swer session following the showing
of the film "A Time For Burning,"
in which Chambers played a
prominent role.
The film dealt with the racial
problem in Omaha and specifical
ly Omaha's Augustana Lutheran
Church.
Film portrays resignation
The Rev. James Youngdahl was
forced to resign as pastor of the
church, the film portrayed, after
he attempted to promote inter
family discussions between mem
bers of Augustana and the pre
dominantly Negro Hope Lutheran
Church.
In conjunction with the film,
Chambers also noted that a major
roadblock in the solving of the
racial problem is hypocrisy in the
Christian religion. He said that he
was not a member of a church,
and rejected Christian beliefs.
During the question period,
Chambers verbally attacked white
leaders whom he claimed are
afraid to meet the problems of the
ghetto head on and create such or
ganizations as Head Start to sooth
their consciences.
However, he added that the Bill
of Rights was the essential initial
step demanding the University of
ficials make explicit several of its
expectations of the community.
The statement will be the re
sult of work which began late
September when Chancellor Clif
ford Hardin established the six
man committee rather than hav
ing the Regents approve or reject
the 17 amendment Bill of Rights.
ASUN President Dick Schulze
said at the time of the group's in
ception, "We are developing a
broader base, a farther reaching
document than the Bill of Rights.
The Bill of Rights will serve as
the basis for the new document."
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When asked if he supported a
Negro revolution, Chambers re
plied, "Negroes have been put in
a position wi'h no alternative but
to fight back. I am for fighting
back." He added, however, that
he did not advocate a revolution
at present.
Chambers continued the discus
. sion by stating that whites can
help solve the racial controversy
by attacking the source of the
problem, white prejudice.
He added that the enforcing of
civil rights laws is insufficient;
the problem can only be solved
on the level of human rights
Laughter, applause
The discussion was character
ized by intermittant bursts of
laughter and applause at Cham
bers' remarks. The discussion be
came more serious when Cham
bers said, "I don't like white peo
ple. This is just a lark, a show
for you, but it gives me a chance
to show how little I think of you."
Chambers also directed several
critical remarks towards the Oma
ha school system. He labeled Hor
ace Mann Junior High School as
a detention center where teachers
"beat, kick and cut black kids."
Omaha's mayor A. V. Sorensen
was also the object of Chambers'
criticism. The mayor is the head
of a redevelopment company in
Omaha which is buying slum prop
erty and reselling it to Negroes at
a premium, Chambers said.
No association with groups
Chambers said that he is not a
member of any Negro organiza
tion. He has refused to be asso
ciated with any part of the Black
Power movement or other militant
groups such as the Black Muslims-
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