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Monday, March 11, 1968
Tiemann asks YR's
to help campaign
Urges support for
Youth Suffrage
by Kent Cockson
Senior Staff Writer
Gov. N o b e r t Tiemann has
urged the University's Young Re
publicans to seek a voice in gov
ernment, especially through
supporting the recently Inaugur
ated campaign to lower the vot
ing age to 19.
Tiemann told the group at a
Thursday meeting that young Ne
braskans should have a say in the
government and said that he
hoped all of them would join the
Nebraskans for Young Adult Suf
frage movement.
The group is out to gather tal
ent and resources to help put
across the campaign, he said, and
if those involved can persuade the
people in Nebraska to accept it,
then the voting age in the state
will be lowered in November.
''Responsible, sophisticated'
"The young people in this state
have demonstrated that they are
responsible, sophisticated and
well educated. You should have a
voice in government," Tiemann
added.
In other matters, both Young
Republicans and Young Demo
crats approved motions at week
ly meetings to sponsor Choice '68,
the mock presidential primary for
colleges and universities.
The action at both meetings
late last week came after ASUN '
Senate voted Wednesday against
sponsoring the primary.
One dissenter
The favorable vote cast at the
YD meeting was unanimous and
the count at the YR meeting show
ed only one dissenter, who said
earlier that college students were
generally liberal in their political
ideas, and the results of such a
primary could influence the
third party campaign of former
Gov. George Wallace.
These organizations now join
the Nebraskans for Young Adult
Suffrage -and the Daily Nebras
kan who have already agreed to
volunteer support.
When the Time national pri
mary commission approves any
or all of the sponsors, the Uni
versity will join 2,600 colleges and
universities across the nation who
have already agreed to partici
pate. YR President Phil Bowen, who
introduced the motion to sponsor
Choice '68 at the meeting, said
that about SO people signed up af
ter the meeting to help work on
election preparations which in
clude dissemination of information
Photo by fn Ijidely
Ecknult, Dan Dieknieicr &
TV
about the 14 cardjdates who will
appear on the ballot.
Anticipated criticism
In speaking to the YR's, Tie
mann also commented on the
criticism his administration has
received. He said this is exactly
what he expected and had it been
any other way, he would have
been greatly concerned.
"Something had to be done for
Nebraska to achieve a high place
in the hierarchy of states," the
governor told a nearly full Ne
braska Union auditorium.
"After you have made the
changes, you have to sell what
you have accomplished. That is
the purpose of my town hall meet
ings. Last night we finished the
eleventh of the 19 scheduled,"
Tiemann said.
No dodging
He added that there has b e e n
"no ducking, dodging or avoiding
the questions. When people tell
him that the spending of t h i s bi
ennium has Tisen 26 per cent over
the last, he points out that spend
ing increased 53 per cent in t h e
last Morrison adminisration.
Tiemann said the conversation
runs like this:
"Why didn't you eriticze Mor
rison?" 'Well, we didnt know about
it," they say.
"Well why didnt you know
about it?" Tiemann asks.
"Because we didn't have a Re
publican governor," they answer.
The governor added that once
the people understand that what
the legislature did was to create
an atmosphere to keep the young
people in Nebraska, then every
thing seems to be all right.
Biggest chunk to UN
The biggest single chunk of the
state budget goes to the Univer
sity of Nebraska, Tiemann said,
and many people ask why so
much money goes to the Univer
sity. The governor said that one of
his jobs is to defend the budget
of the University, which in his
words is one of the finest schools
in the nation since the mergeT
with Omaha University was
scheduled.
' He predicted that by 1970, en
rollment will reach 30,000.
"The question now is whether
Devaney will have a farm team
in Omaha," the governor said.
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Anti-Dow demonstration . . .
Inside the picket
on dress rise of
by Susie Jenkins
Junior Staff Writer
A disdain for baths is a prime
mark of a demonstrator, if one
judges by the belligerent remarks
thrown at anti-war demonstrators
Friday.
The greatest number of com
ments spat at the pickets in the
Student Union concerned the bodi
ly cleanliness of the picketers,
even of people like me, dressed in
clean clothes and with newly
washed hair.
The demonstrators specifically
aimed at Dow Chemical Company,
but generally protested the Viet
nam war. In order to view the
protest from the "inside" for a
Dally Nebraskan assignment, I
held a sign and alienated friends
and acquaintances, as did the
other demonstrators.
Two reactions
Mick towe, one of the organi
zers, noted that outside reaction
was of two kinds: people either
looked guiltily away from the
demonstrators or tried to offend
the protesters by heckling.
"Demonstrations are such an
oddity on this campus that people
don't know how to react." Lowe
taid. "We demonstrated for
about five hours, and there were
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Today
The Union Talks and Topics
Committee will present the film
"Are You Rnnning With Me,
Jesus" at 3:30 p.m. in the Union
auditorium Monday.
The film is based on a book of
prayers by the Rev. Malcom Boyd.
Rev. Boyd will be on campus Mon
day to present the film, and will
lecture Tuesday in the Union.
An economics and business
roundtable will be held Tuesday
at 7:30 p.m. in the Nebraska
Union. The topic will be "People
and Business Objectives' Arthur
C. Bryon, a visiting professor in
the College of Business Adminis
tration will be the speaker.
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The Navy's Officer Information
Team will be visiting the campus
Wednesday through Friday of this
week to assist prospective gradu
ates in planning their future cours
es of action with regard to mili
tary service. Representatives of
the team will be availabe to talk
to students from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
in the Union.
An AWS forum of the four
presidential candidates drew only
five Univer sity coeds, one of
which was a Nebraskan reporter.
For that story, read page three.
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very few people who tried to speak
to us with logical arguments. The
remarks were just personal af
fronts." Lowe said that such , reaction
ranged from "Get a bath" to
". . . you, you damned hippie."
People won't heckle when they
are by themselves; its seems it
takes two or three of them to give
each other support, so they have
an audience to appreciate the
"patriotic" action said Lee Kin
ney, another organizer.
Rotter in California
"We would have better reac
tion, or at least reaction on a high
er level of mentality, if we were
in New York or California," Kin
ney said.
Pickets stationed at "anti-war"
posts carried signs that read:
"Napalm makes millionaires,"
"Would Napalm convert YOl! to
democracy?" and "Old soldiers
never die young ones do."
On the opposite side of the walk
way where the demonstration
was held, several men held pro
war signs.
The other side
One crew-cut participant w h o
had already fulfilled his military
obligation held a sign which read:
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Photo by Dan Xadely
Hodegbrin (Linda Varvel) and Maura (Ann Van Steen
berg) practice a scene from the lab play, "The Aborted
Moon" written and directed by William Turek. The play
concerns two middle-aged women who have spent the last
decade isolated in one room. The performances will be
tonight and Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the Arena Theater, 2(13
Temple. "Hell Is Other People" written and directed by
Mike Messmer, another lab play will be presented in 201
Temple at 8:50 tonight Admission to both plays is free.
lines: comments
the anti-anti
"Continue the War End Commu
nist Colonialism."
"We had planned to deomon
strate against (Eugene) McCarthy
when he came here to speak, but
when we heard about this demon
stration, we decided to show up
here," he said.
The man viewed napalm as a
weapon, like other weapons of
war," just a little more useful.
We think we should use the means
at our disposal to win," he said.
"They (the other demonstrators)
are just using napalm as a ve
hicle to demonstrate against
war."
"Ho Chi is a warmonger'
Other pro-war signs included:
"Ho Chi Minh is a Communist
Warmonger," and "If Hanoi don't
come around, we gonna burn Ha
noi down."
Relations between the two fac
tors were cordial, and there was
even some talk of having the
whole group go to coffee gogether.
"At least those guys (the pro
war demonstrators) don't make
remarks about our personal hab
its," said one protester with long
hair.
The demonstrators against the
war did make some converts,
notably a sorority girl who chal
Ruling is expected
on open door policy
Recommendation, decision
will resolve issue
bv Mark Gordon
Senior Staff Writer
The University dean of student
affairs expects the open door rule
controversy to be settled this
Although the xuling could be re
viewed at any time, G. Robert
Ross said Friday the subcommit
tee on student affairs will make
a recommendation m the open
door ruling to the Faculty Senate
Committee on Student Affairs this
week.
Ross, chairman of the commit
tee, said the full committee's de
c i s i o n on the recommendation
would hopefully resolve the issue
which has been discussed since
September.
Ross's statement followed a two
hour meeting Friday between the
University Board of Regents and
the subcommittee on student af
fairs. In a prepared statement, the
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lenged the grouD to "do something
useful," and who ended up hold
ing a sign.
What rules?
An old lady also asked the
group what "the rules" were,
thinking that the demonstration
was a game.
Television reporters and cam
eramen were present taking pic
tures for broadcast, but they care
fully avoided shots of anyone but
the "hippie" elements present.
High school students on cam
pus for the state basketball tour
nament didn't react much, as if
this were to be expected on a col
lege campus. The real words
came from university students.
Logic not expected
Lowe said that he was not too
upset by the harshness of t h
passers-by.
"Vietnam is an emotional issue.
People react from their 'patriot
ic' feelings, so their words won't
always be logical," he said.
This may be so, but I was
knocked speechless when a graduate-age
student approached me,
a clean and hopefully sweet-smelling
coed. He calmly asked, "Does
Dow Chemical make soap, too?"
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Beard said the meeting was fruit
ful, but no decision was reached
during the discussion of alterna
tive proposals to the open bous
ing issue.
The issue concerns the open
door ruling, which the subcommit
tee passed as one of sirt stipula
tions governing dormitory open
houses early in December.
The clause states that all doors
except those of residents absent
from the floor during the open
house must remain open and those
residents leaving the floor must
register their absence with the
responsible officer.
Although he refused to release
any specific details of the pro
posals discussed. Dr. B. N.
Greenberg, President of the
Board, said the discussion cen
tered on when and under what
conditions doors c o u Id remain
pen during open houses.
In calling the meeting one of the
most fruitful discussions on open
housing, IDA President Bruce
Bailey, who met with both groups
dduring the talks, said matters be
sides open doors were discussed
Topics ranging from student
wants and desires to residence
hall operations and recreational
facilities were discussed.
"The meeting showed the in
terest of the Board of Regents
and administration personnel in
helping the students,'" Bailey said
in adding that the talk was a good
oasis for future work.
Commenting on 15 student dem
onstrators who sat for one hour
on the administration building's
steps in conjunction with the
meeting, Bailey said ""we can get
by without demonstrations.'"
'"We are going in the direction
we want and it doesn't take
marches over to the administra
tion building to do what we are
doMig,'' he said.
While commending the student
representatives for their coopera
tion, Greenberg said he was im
pressed with the awareness of stu
dents to their educational, cultur
al and social views in a totally
orientated program in attaining a
complete education.
The f uH text of tbe Regents pre
pared statement: ... expresses
. thought that the meeting was
fruitful and tbe Board appreci
ated an opportunity to get informa
tion on how faculty and students on
subcommittee view the housing sit
uation . , , visited about alternative
proposals advanced by the subcom
mittee but no decisions were
reached.
, , , Board understands the sub
committee will, report to tbe full
committee on student affairs this
week. - , . discussions being car
ried on in a democratic manner
and all parties are vitally inter
ested in the well-being of students
and in keeping the maximum
learning situatiar intact
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