NU now boasts first draft' counseloi
by Kent Cockson
Junior Staff Writer
The University may not have
everything, but it now has its first
draft counselor.
He is philosophy Prof. Charles G.
Marxer, a lean and youthful-appearing
professor w it h a neatly
trimmed beard, who has been
counselling students for about three
weeks on ways to avoid the draft.
"Strictly speaking, I am a draft
resister, although I have never re
fused induction," said the bespec
tacled counselor.
He added that he sent a letter
some time ago to the Selective Ser
vice. The letter said in effect that
he had "disposed" of his draft
card, that he would refuse any and
all cooperation with the Selective
Service system in the future and
that he would make plans to coun
sel those interested in avoiding the
draft.
Marxer said that his basic motive
for taking such action arose from
his opposition to the war in Viet
nam. He added that he is a self
made counsellor with no formal or
legal qualifications.
"I haven't heard anything from
the Selective Service since I sent
the letter," he said, "but I could
be re-classified for being delinquent
if they asked me to fill out some
forms or something and I refused."
Marxer currently has a 3-A clas
sification which defers him because
of his dependents. He has never
served in the armed forces nor has
he ever been classified 1-A.
The draft counselor said that the
questions most students ask him
concern the draft laws, for instance
what physical standards are estab-
Thursday February 29, 1968
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Student Senator Craig Dreezen moves to table Government
Bill 17 proposing the office of Curricular Evaluation. He
suggested waiting to endorse the Centennial Committee's
Council on instruction.
NU may participate
in student primary
'Clioice 6T to slate
major candidates
ASUN President Dick Schulze an
nounced Wednesday that the Uni
versity will participate in Choice
68, a nationwide mock presidential
primary, if balloting could coin
cide with the ASUN general elec
tion Apr. 10.
Schulze made the announcement
at the Student Senate meeting, in
which business was light.
He added the balloting would be
-more worthwhile if national pres
idential candidates were to speak
at the University before the bal
loting. Schulze also announced the ap
pointment of Bob Zucker as editor
of the Faculty Evaluation Booklet
Committee.
Ed Hilz, election commissioner,
was present for the final discus
sion of the proposed procedures
for the spring election which were
unanimously accepted by Senate.
Little discussion was held on two
government bills regarding affilia
tion with the National Student As
sociation (NSA). Schulze announc
ed an NSA representative will ap
pear before Senate next Wednes
day to answer questions regarding
the organization. Senate votes next
week whether or not to affiliate.
Discussion was held on the re
commendations of the Ad Hoc
Committee on Disciplinary Proce
dures headed by Sen. Robert Wea
ver. The recommendations are neces
sary because the -"present proce
dure is inadequate and ill-defined,
"Weaver said.
He answered questions regarding
the place AWS would have in the
proposed revised court structure.
Weaver said AWS would control and
determine its own court structure,
Strictly speaking, I am a draft resister,' says tlie
University's firs id raft counselor, Professor of
Philosophy Charles G. Marxer. ' liave talked to
several people thinking along the lines of escaping
to Canada. But I advise them to think it over care
fully ..."
lished for a 4-F classificagion or
the meaning of the recent draft
policy to affect graduate students
this fall.
"I have talked to several people
who were thinking along the lines
of escaping to Canada. I can give
them the name of a Canadian group
who can help them as well as
information : about immigration
rules.
"But I advise them to think it
over carefully before they make
their deciions because it (escap
ping to Canda) involves renounc
ing American citizenship," he
said.
He added that there are also le
gal complications involved in such
a move in that a person can be
prosecuted if he is ever caught in
the U.S. after violating a Selective
Service law.
Marxer said that he has talked
to 12 or 15 students in the last
three weeks adding that he did not
know of anyone making a decision
on the basis of what information
and counselling he had given them.
"I haven't had any feedback in
that sense. These students are pro
bably waiting until their present
deferments run out. Most of them
figure that now is just a g o o d
time to start thinking about it," he
said.
A 1963 graduate of Rockhurst Col
lege, in Kansas City, who received
his Master of Philosophy degree
from the University of Toronto in
November, Marxer said that he is
only a visiting professor and will
not be here next year.
He said that his ambitions as a
draft counselor may have some
weight in his decision about where
to teach next. He added that "a
lot depends on how much heat I
get from the government."
SDS has asked him to be their
official advisor, according to Mar
xer. He said that he will make such
an affiliation official if he can qual
ify with the permission of the ad
ministration. Until then, he said he is work
ing with a group of students to
ward establishing a draft resistance
union at the University. He dis
pelled questions regarding student
interest in such a union, saying
that as deferments decrease, mar
ket interest grows in Selective Ser
vice laws and induction into the
military service.
"Every senior' and every gradu
ate student faces reclassification
this year and most of those boys
face induction," he said. "You
might be surprised at the interest
that will be shown."
as stated in the proposed AWS con
stitution, following the minimum
requirements for courts as stated
in the committee recommenda
dations. He explained the procedures deal
with procedural rules and regula
tions, as opposed to ones of a sub
stantive nature.
Action on Government Bill 17 was
tabled for a week. Sen. Craig Dree
zen said there was a conflict in
the purpose of the bill, to estab
lish a Curricular Evaluation Com
mittee, and the way in which its
structured. He said the bill in its
present form will not achieve its
intended purpose.
Richard Page of the ASUN Hous
ing Committee reported on the com
mittee's work this past year. He
said its attention has been focused
on solving problems in the resi
dence halls.
Page said the -committee has
pushed for better recreational facil
ities and has served as an appeals
board for those wishing to live off
campus.
Asked about rumors indicating
junior men would be required to
live on campus next fall, Page
said he was not at liberty to talk
about a change in policy because no
definite rules had been finalized.
He and Schulze doubted the pol
icy would revert to last year's rules
which stated junior men had to re
side on campus. Page indicated the
policy was related to enrollment pre
dictions for next fall which have not
yet been completed.
In other Senate business, action
was deferred a week on the con
sideration of ten constitutions be
fore Senate for review.
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Vol. 91 No. 70
Copple disagrees
Pub Board hears recommendation
The chairman of the University
Publications Board said Wednes
day that he disagrees with several
changes in the Board structure
suggested by a Student Senate
committee.
The Board, chaired by Neale A.
Copple. director of the School of
Journalism, was presented the rec
ommendations for changes com
piled by the Student Senate Ad Hoc
Committee on Student Publications.
Copple explained that the Board
did not reach a consensus at Tues
day's meeting.
"WTe have no power to act on
these recommendations" he said,
although Board members will in
dividually comment on the pro
posed changes.
The recommendations of the
Board will accompany the commit
tee's suggestions, which will be
presented to Faculty Senate for re
view and action in several weeks,
Susie Phelps, chairman of the Sen
ate committee, said.
One of the main purposes of the
committee's recommendations is
to try to make the structure of
Publications Board concur with the
proposed Student Bill of Rights, the
chairman said.
She explained that the Bill of
Rights contains the following two
major points:
Faculty and students should
have equai representation in policy
making decisions.
There should be no censorship
1968 evaluation
book changed
Interviews scheduled
Sunday, March 10
bv Susie Jenkins
Junior Staff Writer
Interviews for staff positions for
the 1968 Faculty Evaluation Book
will be held Sunday, March 10,
according to Bob Zucker, newly
appointed editor of the book.
Zucker plans to re-evaluate the
present format of the book He
has made plans with the ASUN
executive committee to divide the
publication of the book into two
areas, working with the question
naire and writing the evaluations.
"Our plan is to appoint area edi
tors through interviews," Zucker
said. "These people will be re
sponsible for editing material in
each area. This has been placed
fully on the editor in the past,
which was one of the book's main
problems."
Outside help
Zucker hopes to obtain help in
the book's publication, both from
University and outside sources.
"We can't assume ihat the stu
dents are fully capable of organ
izing a questionnaire by them
selves, so we hope to use 'profes
sional' people in deciding what
questions to ask,"he said. "Peo
ple in educational psychology, so
ciology, and psychology will be able
to organize questions. Often length
and repetition is the rule in ques
tionnaires, and -triviality results."
Zucker also plans to have grad
uate students in each department
write subjective evaluations of pro
fessors to get more insight into the
comments students make.
Correct evaluations
"This approach will help us to
print more correct evaluations than
we could do with straight student
comment." he said.
Our goal of the staff this semes
ter will be to establish a new atti
tude on the part of the faculty and
students concerning the boo k,
Zucker said.
"Faculty must realize that the
book is a definite part of the Uni
versity," he said. "We hope to in
crease participation from the fac
ulty and impress on students that
rating professors is not a five-minute
job.
"Also, each staff member "must
have an idea of what teaching is,
and what a responsible rating en
tails." Editing policy
On the question of editing and
censorship, Zucker noted that no
general policy is set down on de
leting specific comments.
"The point of the book is to tell
students how a professor performs
in the classroom and in his office.
An isolated comment is not proof
of classroom conduct, but we would
think that a number of similar com
ments would have value." he said.
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I On Campus ...
Today
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A zoology seminar will be held
at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in Bessey
Hall Auditorium. Dr. Earl B. Barn
awell, Department tof Zoology,
will speak. There will oe coffee and
a social time before the program.
it. it
The NU Speaker-Artist Series
will present a concert by classical
pianist Leonard Pennario at 8 p.m.
Thursday at the Nebraska Theater.
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Quiz Bowl matches will be held
Thursday night beginning at 7 p.m.
Moderators will be Dr. Charles
Gruner and Dr. Fred Luthans. Af
ter Thursday's matches, any team
with twa losses for the season will
be eliminated and the remainder
of the matches will be single-elimination.
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A panel on "Conscientious Objec
tion What It is; What It Is Not"
will be held Sunday at 8 p.m. at
the Unitarian Church in Lincoln.
Panel participants will be Col.
Loe Liggett of the Nebraska Selec
tive 'Service and Dayton L. Olson,
Director of the College Program,
American Friends Service Committee.
of student publications.
Miss Phelps emphasized that the
committee had not felt that cen
sorship of student publications is a
problem, but that the committee
felt that a formal statement an a
Publications Board was needed.
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On her fifth birthday . . . University student Betty Miller
inhales for a clean sweep of the candles on her sparcely
populated birthday cake she will not have another
opportunity until February 29, 1972.
Three NU students
mature to age of 5
bv Steve Leger
Junior Staff Writer
Baffling as it may be to t h e
comptroller and admissions super
visors, three University sopho
mores are celebrating their fifth
birthdays Thursday.
Bettv Miller. Robert Dalrymple,
and Marcia Martins are among
129.000 other persons in the United
States celebrating their leap-birthdays,
with 16000 baby expected to
join their ranks by midnight
Thursday night. The three Univer
sity students were born on Feb.
29, 1948 (leap-day).
Being born on Feb. 29 presents
some special problems, namely de
ciding when to celebrate one's
birthday the three years between
leap years. Betty Miller solved
this problem by celebrating her
birthday on March 1 Nebraska's
birthday.
"The typical reply after telling
someone your birthday in on Feb.
29 is 'Oh. you're one of those," ac
cording to Betty. But the leap ear
problem is beyond control, or any
one's for that matter.
What makes leap year leap? It's
all a matter cf the heaven's ver
sus man's arithmetic, and man is
always the looser.
Tha bissextile year leap yean
was determined by some of Julius
Caesar's astronomers in 46 B.C.
They divided the year into 365 days,
5 hours. 18 minutes, and 48.75 sec
onds. The extra five hours and 18
minutes make an extra day every
four years causing a day to
"leap-over."
However, since 5 hours. 48-4 min
utes added for each of four years
does not total quite a whole day
the extra 24 hours that are added
each leap year are a little too much
and something must be done to
correct this.
As a result, leap year is elimi
nated three times every 400 years.
The trouble, however, is that only
18 hours 43 minutes should bt elim
inated each century. No matter how
far you carry it there is always
a remainder.
Custom sets aside leap year lor
women to woo rather than to
be wooed, but there is no satis
factory explanation for it.
The custom probably began in
Scotland when a law was enacted
in 1288 which said that "it is statut
and ordaint that during the rein
of hir maist blissit Megeste. for
ilk yeare knowne as lepe yeare,
ilk mayden lakye of bqlhe highe
and lowe estait shall hae liberte
to bespeke ye man she likes, al
beit he refuses to talk hir to be
his lawful wyfe. he shall be mul
cted in ye sum ane pundis or less,
as his estait may be; except and
awis gif he can make it appeare
that he is betrothit ane ither wom
an he then shall be free." That
means that any Cornhusker "lass"
can shake her scarlet petticoat at
an eligible man this year and
get away with it.
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