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.NSA affiliation
proposal made
Senate suggests liberalized
pass fail grading policies
by Susie Jenkins
Junior Staff Writer
Senate executives presented two
bills Wednesday that would pro
pose and endorse the University's
affiliation with the National Stu
dent Association (NSA).
The bills would place the ques
tion of membership before stu
dent voters at the spring election.
Bill Fifteen, the propositional
bill, states in part:
"Be it enacted: That the ASUN
Senate place the following propos
al on the spring general election
ballot:
"The Association of Students of
the University of Nebraska should
affiliate with and become a mem
ber of the United States National
Student Association. Affiliation
with the USNSA means that we
the student body of the University
of Nebraska do the following:
"1. Adopt the USNSA constitu
tion and preamble,
"2. Accept the USNSA by-laws
as an implementation of the struc
ture and organization of the NSA,
"3. Adopt the constitution of the
USNSA region in which we reside,
"4. Pay our national and re
gional dues."
Three reasom
ASUN President Dick Schulze
spoke in behalf of the bills, and
said that the Senate executives
thought affiliation was necessary
for three reasons:
Student Governments of uni
versities the size of Nebraska
should be oriented toward nation
al and international issues. NSA
provides information and services
for these purposes.
NSA provides help to mem
ber universities in programming
speakers and campus events.
The organization provides ad
ministrative services such as help
in organizational research prob
lems and contact with other uni
versities. NSAandASG
Schultz said that of the two na
tional organizations the Associa
tion of Student Governments and
NSA, the latter best fulfills the
University of Nebraska's needs.
Hyde Park slated today
A special session of Hyde Park
will be held in the Union this after
noon. According to Carol Madson
of the Talks and Topics commit
tee, this session will decide the
fate of the future of Hyde Park,
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the
second in a three-part series on
the foreign student at the Uni
versity. Researched and written
by a Daily Nebraskan special
assignment reporter, this second
installment deals with housing.
The final Installment will con
cern social acceptance.
by Keith Williams
Foreign student housing is often
1 criticized as being substandard,
but its is difficult to blame any
one for this situation, according to
two University administrators.
There are 28 foreign students liv
ing in University residence halls
22 men and six women. There are
24 students living in University
owned housing off campus (two
apartment buildings at 16th and R
streets and one on S Street 19
men and five women. In other off
campus apartments there are 143
foreign students 121 men and
22 women.
According to Wayne Kuncl, Uni
versity foreign student adviser,
many foreign graduate students
don't want a large, dormitory set
ting b e c a u s e the graduates are
much older than the otner resi
dents and 'the foreign students can
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"ASG is newer and broke away
from the NSA several years ago,"
Schulze said. "NSA was started
twenty years ago, and has been
very successful in the education
and services to universities
"NSA regularly makes policy
statements on national issues, and
does not shy away from contro
versial stands," he said. .
The two bills for affiliation will
be considered at next week's Sen
ate meeting.
Pass-fail system
In other business, Senate passed
a bill that would recommend that
the Faculty Senate institute more
liberal pass-fail grading policies.
The bill passed 25-3.
Presented by Senator Craig
Dreeszen, the bill would open
more areas of study to pass-fail
grading, and make the courses op
tional to students regardless of
class rank.
Amendment proposed
Dreeszen proposed an amend
ment making all freshman courses
pass-fail. Senators voted down the
amendment.
Senator Kathy Kuester noted
that freshmen need the stimula
tion of grades, and Senator John
Hall said that he "didn't know a
freshman who would try to do any
thing but pass."
In further business, Senators
approved Dave Buntain as the new
student representative on the Stu
dent - Faculty Convocation Com
mittee, and okayed a motion to
allow the Students for McCarthy
to collect money before the group's
constitution is approved.
Senate also' approved a bill pre
sented by Senator Cheryl Adams
to give the programming and im
plementation of the Model United
Nations to the Nebraska Union.
The bill passed unanimously.
Senate ajso declared the week
of February 19 as Peace Corps
Week.
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Student Senate will accept ap
plications for interviews for those
wishing to represent Graduate Col
lege, to replace Al Felber who pre
sented his resignation to the Sen
ate Wednesday.
Hyde Park recently drew atten
tion because of the lack of relevant
and Interesting issues for discus
sion. Topics had centered around
Vietnam and drugs and only a few
speakers had dominated the forum.
not obtain their native foods from
the dorms.
The biggest problem facing for
eign students living in dormitories
is the $90 a month rent. Kuncl said
most foreign students either do not
want to spend that much money
for housing, or they cannot afford
it even if they want to live there.
This forces the students to live
off-campus, he explained.
Most foreign students who live
off-campus want appartments with
in walking distance of their classes.
M. Edward Bryan, housing direc
tor, said. But there is a short
age of living space around the
campus and foreign students often
take apartments that few students
would live in.
These apartments have been
called substandard, Kuncl said.
Generally, they probably are, he
said, but that is judging from an
American viewpoint. They might
not be substandard to the foreign
student, he added.
Bryan said apartments in t h e
University-owned housing on 16th
Street rent from $55 to $85 a month.
Rooms in the S street building
rent for $70 a month.
This housing is open to all stu
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A biology symposium will be
held Thursday at 3:30 p.m. In the
Bessey Hall auditorium. Dr. Bhai
rab Bhattacherjee from Creighton
University Medical School will be
the speaker. A coffee and brief so
cial time will be held before the
symposium.
A- t:
Peace Corps Agricultural Repre
sentatives will be at the East Cam
pus Union from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Thursday and Friday to talk to in
terested students.
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Freshman and uppcrclass quiz
bowl teams will match wits Thurs
day night in the Union beginning
at 7 p.m. Moderators will be Jer
ry Petr and Jim Huge.
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The University Dames will hold
their first meeting of the semes
ter Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the
Howell theater. The Uni mimes will
perform and admission is 25 cents.
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Thursday is the University of Ne
braska Charter Day, starting the
99th year of the University.
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Quiz Bowl
teams clash
Thursday
The following quiz bowl matches
will be played Thursday evening:
(Isolation time 6:45); Cornhus
ker Co-op vs. Sigma Alpha Epsi
lon; Beta Sigma Psi vs. Sigma
Chi; Delta Delta Delta vs. Theta
Xi; Acacia vs. Sigma Delta Tau;
Abel IV Dupes vs. Phi Psi Rum
cakes; Beta Theta Pi C vs.
Schramm 5; Kappa Sigma vs Love
Hall.
(Isolation time 8(00); ADPi Fud
dled Foursome vs. Theta Chi II;
Phi Delta Theta Goats vs. Ag
Men; Beta Theta Pi A vs. Sinn
Fein; The Uncalled Four vs. Les
Fleurs du Mai; Kappa Alpha The
ta II vs. Troopers; Phi Delta The
ta A vs. Sigma Chi; Quiz Kids vs.
ZBT Men; Kappa Sigma A vs.
Tau Kappa Epsilon.
today
dents, foreign and American, on a
first come, first served basis, Bry
an said. He described the apart
ments as having minimum accom
modations. Bryan said that University off
campus married housing is very
limited. However, there is plenty
of housing for single and married
students in the city, away from
the campus, he added.
He said Lincoln offers two-bedroom
duplexes at the old Lincoln
AFB for $65 to $75 a month. Bryan
also said the Lincoln Housing Au
thority has a rent subsistence pro
gram for married students with
children. This program pays the
difference between the rent and
what the family can afford.
Poor housing available
Foreign students are at a disad
vantage when they come here,
Kuncl said, because they arrive
just before classes start, and the
better housing is already taken.
Bryan explained that when a for
eign student arrives on campus, the
student is permitted to live in a
dormitory while he looks for off
campus housing.
Kuncl said when the foreign stu
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Residents 01 Schramm
reject IDA membership
by Mark Gordon
Senior Staff Writer
I n t e r-Dormitory Association
(IDA) executives and Schramm
Hall officials have expressed con
cern over Schramm's overwhelm
ing rejection of IDA membership
in a Tuesday election.
With nearly 50 per cent voting,
the men's dormitory struck down
IDA membership almost three to
one with a 147 to 50 negative re
sponse. IDA President' Brain Ridenour
said Wednesday tnat although the
IDA would not be harmed inter
nally by the vote, it would harm
the group's public image.
"I think it (the vote) indicated
an inherent weakness In commun
ication within IDA or in their ac
tual actions and it's something the
new exeutives will strive to cor
rect," he said.
The new IDA executive officers
will be selected Friday and they
will assume office one week later.
The IDA executive said the vote
indicated Schramm's unwillingness
to work constructively with the oth
er dormitory representatives to
build a stronger residence hall sys
tem. Ridenour said the recent boycott
of the open door regulation of the
new open house policy by Harper
Hall could have alienated
Schramm residents who rejected
the membership bid Tuesday.
He pointed out that Schramm can
hold another membership vote by
acquiring the IDA Council's con
sent. Although an undercurrent of feel
ing against IDA had been preva
lent the majority of the year, it
did not appear strong enough to
override the IDA supporters, Jim
Humlicek, Schramm president said.
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to speak
on campus
U.S. Senator Eugene Mc- g
Carthy, seeking the Demo- j
cratic Presidential nomlna- f
tion against President John- f
son, will speak on campus
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Thursday, Feb. 22.
The Minnesota senator, an i
outspoken critic of U.S. pol- y
icy in the Vietnamese con- 1
flict, will speak in the Ne- i
braska Union ballroom at
3:30 p.m., according to Carol g
Madson, Union Talks and
Topics Committee chairman, ff
Miss Madson said McCar- S
thy's appearances before col- I
lege audiences this year in-
dicate he is an articulate, g
well-prepared speaker. Con- g
sidered an intellectual, he i
has a quick and sharp wit !
in formal situations, she said.
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dent decides to look for housing,
the Foreign Student Office tries to
send an American couple along
with the student. One reason for
-this is to help the student find his
way around a strange city.
Less discrimination
But also, Kuncl said, renters are
less likely to discriminate against
foreign students and refuse to rent
apartments to them when they are
accompanied by Americans.
Kuncl said the lighter the for
eign student's complexion, the eas
ier it is for him to find housing.
Bryan said his office has not re
ceived many reports of discrimi
nation from foreign or American
students. He explained students are
requested to file reports if they
think there has been discrimina
tion. Foreign students are more
reluctant to file reports than Amer
icans, Bryan said.
If the Housing Office proves that
discrimination has occurred, the
offending miter has his house tak
en off the University approved
housing list and undergraduates
cannot live there.
Bryan said foreign students are
sometimes more readily accepted
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"In a sense, by being the only
dorm not in the IDA, we're going
to weaken it." he added.
"IDA didn't appear to produce
to the average resident." he said
in explaining that slow concrete
progress in the open house issue
was the largest factor in the Tues
day vote.
Although disappointed by the
Schramm vote, Dave Shonka, IDA
vice president, said he hoped
Schramm would reconsider the
matter and hold another election
during the current academic year.
Shonka discounted rumors that
the approximate $40 yearly dues
Schramm would have been assess
ed could have caused the negative
vote.
"All it would have taken was a
simple act of the Council to change
the $40 yearly dues to an amount
proportional to a semester's mem
bership," he explained.
He said many residents have
felt the IDA should have taken a
Hardin will decide
fate of SAF report
Document on student rights
to be submitted
bv John Dvorak
Junior Staff Writer
Chancellor Clifford Hardin will
decide the eventual fate of the Stu
dent Academic Freedom (SAF)
Committee's document on student
rights, ASUN Vice President Gene
Pokorny said this week.
The repurt will be submitted to
Hardin within three weeks, he said.
The SAF document will expound
on the 17 amendments to the
ASUN constitution, also known as
the bill of rights, approved by stu
dent referendum last spring, con
tinued Pokorny.
Longer committee report
"Obviously," Pokorny said. "The
committee report wil! be much
longer and will deal with the
amendments in much greater
depth."
The committee report will deal
with a number of issues not spe
cifically mentioned in the bill of
rights, he continued. Pokorny,
however, would not say whether
all 17 amendments approved by
the students would be dealt with
in the SAF commitiee report.
The last constitutional amend
ment, which was placed on the
ballot by petition, guarantees
students the right to choose their
own living environments. If this
guarantee is included in the SAF
report, it would be in opposition
to current university policy.
The committee was appointed
by landlords than American Ne
groes. In fact, some dark-skinned
foreign students often break down
the discrimination against Ameri
can Negores because the foreign
students are good boarders
Undesirable view
In 1966 an ASUN committee stud
ied foreign student housing, and
proposed to the Lincoln City Coun
cil that it secure a minimum hou
sing standards code for rental ho
sing. The committee found foreign
student housing to be often sub
standard and that foreign students
receive a less than desirable view
of American life because of poor
housing and discrimination.
Last November Lincoln voters
defeated the proposed minimum
standards housing code by a more
than 2yz-l margin.
Gene Pokorny, ASUN first vice
president, said Student Senate
worked for the passage of the code
as a follow-up to the 1966 report.
He said the code's passage would
have aided all off-campus Univer
sity students, foreign and Ameri
can students alike.
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stronger position in various issues,
but "the IDA has been midunder
stood and misrepresented this
year."
When Smith and Harper Halls
approved IDA membership, many
Schramm residents desired inde
pendence from IDA to determine
what benefits would be lost by re
jecting IDA membership. Ron Al
exander, Schramm vice president
said.
"Many residents felt the ID
hasn't accomplished that much in
its two years of existence to make
membersip worthwhile," he said.
Alexander rejected the idea that
recent defiance of the open door
policy by Harper Hall influenced
Tuesday's results since the IDA
generally backed Harper in a res
olution passed last week.
"I think most residents are hap
py we didn't join." he said in ex
plaining many Schramm residents
had been discussing IDA negative
ly for some time.
by Hardin last September and, ac
cording to Pokorny, will make its
report directly to Hardin. Pokorny
would not disclose any of the ac
tual contents of the SAF report,
the ASUN amendments are that
students have the right to:
determine who shall have ac
cess to their academic or non-academic
records;
participate freely in off-campus
activities when not claiming
to be officially representing the
university;
discuss and freely express
themselves within the classroom:
participate in university policy
making decisions:
form labor unions composed of
students employed by the univer
sity; and
receive due process in all aca
demic and disciplinary proceed
ings. No speculation
Pokorny would not speculate on
whether the SAF report would be
approved by Hardin or the Re
gents. Members of the SAF committee
are ASUN President Richard
Schulze and Pokorny, representing
the students: Vice Chancellor for
Student Affairs G. Robert Ross and
Vice Chancellor, Dean of Faculties
Merk Hobson. from administration;
Dr. Campbell McConnel, professor
of economics, and Dr. Kenneth Or--ton,
associate professor of psychol
ogy, representing the faculty.