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rcn U8RARY Friday, March 8, 1968 WAR 8 TO n University of Nebraska Vol. 91, No. 75 10 in Chicks, chalk, cyclts 1 . . . everything under the sun Paul Roche: poets must def end beauty 'The sheer beauty of life made me become a poef by Jan Parks Senior Staff Writer Poets are people who -have no other reason to exist but to defend beauty, Paul Roche told a small but attentive group of University students Thursday? Roche, whose appearance was sponsored by the Union Talks and Topics Committee, explained that he had not decided to become a poet in one particular decision. "After three years of studying philosophy I found myself roaming the world France, Italy, North Africa doing all sorts of absurd things," the poet reminisced. "The sheer beauty of life made me become a poet," he said. Rhythm of the seasons The young Englishman noted that his early writings were pre occupied l'j pattern and music. "I realized that we are captivated by rhythm he said the rhythm of the seasons and the heart beat." Roche felt that his writings have been influenced by the American "beat" poets. "They haven't influ enced my technique," he said. "Their influence has been to open every avenue for poetry." The "beat" poets say that ev erything is fit for poetry, Roche remarked. "You can shout, scream or talk politics in poetry today." American poets have been trying to break out in rhythms that fit the American language, Roche con tended. "I don't like all of American poe try," he said, "but I do admire most of it." 'Enjoyed and destroyed' The trend in American poetry sometimes seems to be almost too "ephemeral," Roche contended. "Sometimes it seems that the poe try doesn't want to be everlast ing." "But everything today seems to be transitory," he said, and many modern poets adhere to the phil osophy that poetry should be en joyed, then destroyed. Roche described the works of these poets as "journalistic." This poetry is quite interesting to read, J l J. JA1 he noted, but its like a newspaper one only wants to read it once. "Memorbility is essential to real ly good poetry," the poet said. There needs to be some element of the poem that calls one back. "I do change my writings an awfully lot," the poet said. "The number of drafts I write on each poem vary an awfully lot, but I can easily rewrite one poem 30 times." . Whitman 'full-blooded' Roche called himself a great ad mirer of Walt Whitman. "It's been a tradition to rather laugh at him," Roche commented. He par ticularly admired Whitman's range of humanity and the "full blood edness of his poetry." "I'm not a member of any school of poetry," Roche said. "I con sider myself non-classifiable be cause I don't want to be limited . by the characteristics of one par ticular poetic school." Enumerating his rules for writ ing poetry, Roche said, "I only believe in one rule anything is all right if it works." 'A whiff of experience' Sometimes a poet uses himself as a guinea pig, Roche said. "Just a whiff of an experience is some times enough to teach a poet the whole essence of the experience." Roche felt that poets use their experiences in life to formulate universals which they incorporate into their writing. He quoted Aristole: "Poetry is more important than history be cause history deals with particu lars and poetry deals with univer sals." Answering a question concerning syllables (writing with the same number of syllables in each line), Roche said, "Writing in syllables ts completely irrevelant." Although good poetry such as the writings of Marianne Moore is written in syllables, the poet con tinued, it's quality cannot be at tributed to the counted syllables. Counting syllables for writing poetry is not new he said, although poets in the past that have counted have done so for metric stress. Voting planned for April 10 Student groups to back Choice '68 since Senate refuses sponsorship by Jim Evinger Senior Staff Writer Although student senators Wednesday voted down ASUN sponsorship of Choice '68, a mock presidential election primary for the nation's colleges, a group of campus organizations have taken the job of sponsorship themselves. The Daily Nebraskan and Ne braskans for Young Adult Suffrage have agreed to support the pri mary. Young Republicans and Young Democrats have agreed to consider support. A host of individual students also volunteered to back and-or act as coordinators -for the University's participation in the primary. Robert Harris, executive director for the national primary, told the Nebraskan by telephone from New York Thursday that the University is one of the few campuses across the nation not to readily accept the primary. "Your student senate is the only one of the major United States unU versities which has not supported Choice '68," Harris said. He added that Yale University, Harvard University, the University of California at Berkley, University of Wisconsin, University of Chica go and Michigan University are among the leading schools in the nation which have accepted the primary. Voting for presidential candi dates and referenda issues will tentatively take place on April 10 in conjunction with the ASUN gen eral elections. Ed Hilz, electoral commissioner, said the polling could take place under the auspices of the Electoral Commission provided it is reim bursed for any expenses incurred. Harris will be on campus either March 26 or 27 to help with orga nizing the primary. Bob Bartee, past president of Young Democrats, said he would introduce a resolution in Thursday night's YD meeting proposing that organization's part in supporting the program. He thought the YD's would back it. Fourteen candidates form the slate for the presidential ballot. Two of the three referendum ques tions deal with U.S. involvement in Vietnam and the third with the priorities of government spending in confronting the urban problems. Any graduate, undergraduate, part-time or foreign student may participate in the balloting. The executive office of Choice 68 will provide promotional materials, weekly press releases on the can didates' activities and stands on issues, and information regarding available campaign materials of the candidates. Most colleges will vote on April 24, but the University is being al lowed to conduct the balloting on April 10 at the time of the ASUN elections. Hence, the University will be one of the first campuses to participate. Harris told the Nebraskan Tues day that participation by the Uni- iiiiiilliiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniii 10 i Campus ... Today A student anti-war demonstration will be held in the Nebraska Union Friday beginning at 9:30 a.m. The target of the demonstration is the Dow Chemical Company which will be interviewing in the Union. One student organizer of the dem onstration said that Dow was chos en for the demonstration target be cause it is "part of the war ma chine which is active on campus in recruiting graduates." The weekend film in the Nebras ka Union will be "Cincinnati Kid." The film will be shown at 7 and 9 p.m. on Friday and 7:30 p.m. on Sunday. It will be shown on East campus Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Ad mission is 50 cents. & -k a Dr. Henry Schorn, director of re ligious education and professor of Theology at the College of St. Mary in Omaha will be the guest speaker at the Newman Center Sunday at 7:30 p.m. This is the second in a series of March Lenten speakers presented by the Newman club, fr it ft The Cross Winds Coffee House at 1333 F St. will be open Friday night from 8 until 12 p.m. for student en tertainment. ' it ft ft The Hillel Sabbath Services will be held Friday at the Nebraska School of Religion at 4:45 p.m. Stu dents will be taking part in the presentation of the services. versity in the national primary would be significant for two rea sons. First, he said because of the pro posed constitutional amendment which would lower the voting age in Nebraska to 19, student partici pation would be valuable to the citizens of the state and the stu dents, themselves. Second, Harris said the Univer Psychedelic syndrome . . . D rug seminar features former bv John Dvorak Junior Staff Writer Dr. Alan Cohen, who has taken LSD and other hallucinogens 30 times, will be the main speaker at the all-University Drug Seminar March 17, 18 and 19. Cohen, formerly a student of LSD advocate Dr. Timothy Leary, will speak on "Drugs and the Moral Question." The three-day seminar will be held in the Selleck Quadrangle Cafeteria, according to Mark Schreiber. chairman of the ASUN Student Welfare Committee, one of the sponsors of the event. There will be no charge and everyone is welcome, he said. Rejects LSD Cohen lived and worked briefly at Castalia Foundation for Psy chedelic Research, Millbrook, New York. He broke with the "psyche delic Utopians" and now rejects the use of LSD as a means of per sonal growth. He is currently involved in edu cational campaigns to inform youth of the hazards and delusions of drugs and in researching non chemical alternatives to increased awareness, Schreiber said. Sunday evening, the first night of the seminar, will be concerned with legal controls on drugs. The session will be highlighted by the film "LSD 25," according to Schreiber. The film will be pre sented by a representative of the federal drug control division from Kansas City. Nebraska drug control Following the film, Sgt. Wayne Rowe, from the state narcotics di vision, will speak on "The Nebras ka Story of Drug Control." Rowe will recount some of his personal experiences in the field of drug control. Leonard Kaplin, assistant pro fessor of law, and another local lawyer will then give their reac tions to the film and speech. At the conclusion of the session, Faculty Senate to review disciplinary procedures Senate report outlines basic guidelines insuring University students due process If the Student Senate committee report on student disciplinary pro cedures is presented to Faculty Senate through the Student Affairs Committee, it will not appear on the agenda until April 9, according to Dr. Walter Mientka, secretary of Faculty Senate. The report which outlines basic guidelines for student due process and sets up a revised University court system, was unanimously approved in Student Senate Wednesday. . Bob Weaver, chairman of the committee that formulated the re port, said that the committee was ready to submit the report to the faculty, who have expressed some concern in the issue. However, Weaver has not ap proached members of the Student1 sity was the major institution of higher education in the state and is therefore vital in contributing to the votes of the other participating colleges in the state. At the time the ASUN executives recommended the University not participate, over 2,600 colleges and universities representing an esti mated 6,800,000 students had al ready agreed to participate. LSD advocate students will be able to question any of the speakers directly. "We want an informal atmosphere where there can be a loose inter change of ideas," Schreiber stated. Moral consequences Moral and philosophical conse quences will be the subject of the Monday evening program, high lighted by Cohen's speech. His speech will be followed by a reactor panel discussion with John Brekenridge, who works with the Wesleyan student center; Phil Scribner, assistant professor of philosophy and Dr. Samuel Fuen ning from the Student Health Cen ter. The final session of the seminar Tuesday evening will consider the physiological effects of drugs. Dr. William Eagen, faculty member from Creighton University will speak on "The Medical Implica tions of Drug Use." He formerly worked at the Drug Rehabilitation Center in Kentucky and will speak from his personal knowledge about the effects of drugs on people. Kathy Kuester will then sum marize the conference in her talk "Where from Here?" Individual conclusions "There is a lot of information at a conference of this type, but much of it doesn't apply," Schrei ber said. "Each person has his in dividual conclusions. It is impor tant to try to convey the general student opinion." Schreiber emphasized that the conference will be the first of its kind at the University. Until a year ago, the FBI discouraged large scale drug educational programs. They felt that students might be stimulated to experiment with drugs, Schreiber said. But this concept has changed, he continued. In order that stu dents be better informed on the affects of drugs, law enforcement officers now encourage drug infor mation seminars. Affairs Committee with the report, and they would be next in line be fore it is brought before the Faculty Senate, according to Mientka. Weaver said Thursday that he did not know exactly what his next step would be. Dean G. Robert Ross, chairman of the Student Affairs Committee, said that there has been no talk among committee, members about the introduction' or consideration of the rep6rt in Faculty Senate, which meets again Tuesday. Ross had no specific comments on the report, and added that he "wants to be very deliberate" in studying the report and . talking to other committee members before he makes any official statements. Concerning the principles behind the report, Ross said that the ob President Lyndon B. Johnson told the Choice '68 board of directors in February that when students ex press their opinion intelligently, people across the nation "stop, look, listen and evaluate." Johnson told the group his be lief that a stronger vote amongst the nation's young adults would favor Democratic candidates and policies. - - - uL-J Dr. Alan Cohen ' The idea for such a seminar ori ginated last fall, according to Schreiber. "Growing conversation prompted us to consider some sort of program," he said. "Gene Pokorny (ASUN first vice president) observed a similar pro gram at Hastings College last Jear and was very impressed," Schrei ber said. "We took up the idea and went from there." Assistance from NSA The National Student Association (NSA) greatly assisted the orga nizers of the Drug Seminar," Schreiber said. The NSA has a full time official who tours colleges and universities helping with similar drug semi nars, Schreiber continued. However it is very possible that the NSA representative will not be able to attend NU's seminar be cause of his tight schedule, Schrei ber said. The Drug Seminar will use the delegate system, Schreiber said. Each living unit will have two rep resentatives at the seminar. In this way, adequate campus representa tion will be assured, Schreiber said. Parts of the seminar will be vi deotaped by KUON-TV and will be shown at a later date. jective of psychological counseling as he understands it is to "aid the individual in attaining some behav ioral modification." v He said that discipline and coun seling could exist as separate en titles that do not reach that func tion, but within the limits of the definition they must be considered together. Regarding the existence of due process for the student, Ross said: "I don't think there is any ques tion that if a serious action is to be taken dealing with a student re lated to the University, that we ought to have very carefully de fined, legalistic procedures. "But if we are talking about something less than that, then leg alism has no place in the matter," he said.