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by Jim Erlnger
Senior Staff Writer
A mixed crowd came to hear
the Rev. Malcom Boyd Wednes
day afternoon knowing it would
not be preached at it expected
something else and Boyd delivered
that for two hours to an enthralled
audience.
He's known as the coffeehouse
priest and this style of informal
delivery came through as he walk
ed on the Nebraska Union ball
room stage, sat on a stool and
opened by asking the people to
pull up their chairs closer to the
stage. He removed his coat and
began a dialogue in shirtsleeves
with his audience.'
Boyd urged students to "de-ghetto-ize
yourselves." Throughout
the random subjects covered he
said students were not receiving
an education or working out their
individual life styles.
Challenges students
He differentiated between acti
vism and involvement, saying that
activism is often merely the "em
pty spinning of wheels which
leads no place." He challenged
students to translate their ideal
ism into real political terms and
become involved.
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j Katie Guild votes in AWS election held Wednesday.
A WS election results
! Unlvenity coeds elected MimI Baker, a Junior, as AWS presl
! dent Wednesday in the all-women's AWS executive election.
I Although voting tabulations were not complete, Miss Baker
l had the most votes of the four presidential candidates. Nesha Neu
uielster, tbc second place candidate and Nancy Eaton, the third
olace candidate, are the newly elected AWS vice-presidents.
! The president-elect advocated a change in women's hours in
i her campaign platform. "A no hours system might be in order,"
she said.
j Another proposal made by Miss Baker was that the AWS hand
1 book be revised.
1 Miss Baker feels that AWS Jurisdiction should be expanded in
I a realistic manner. AWS legislation in areas of dormitory fees and
I meal tickets is outside the realm of AWS, she said.
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Malcolm Boyd differentiated
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Otherwise, he said, idealism
evaporates into fantasy.
He termed the sorority, frater
nity, and dormitory groups in
which students isolate themselves
as tribal troups and ghettos which
keep people from becoming active
ly involved with others.
Emphasize diploma
Boyd chided the anti-intellectual
nature of universities, saying they
too often placed an emphasis on
training and diplomas.
He was quick to add that as an
undergraduate he was president of
his fraternity. He told the students
to become aware and informed of
people, events and issues.
When questioned about Negro
militants who urge black national
ism and racial separatism, Boyd
explained that whites must first
'"think and feel black, and then
think and feel white, and then you
can think and'feel human.
"Whites are very paternalistic
and want to work with the blacks.
They'd better get with it and work
with whites," he said.
In explaining the con of black
nationalism, Boyd offered a
way in which isolated and non-in
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volved whites could learn to think
and feel black.
He said that although society is
not going to teach anything but
the "white history'" which it has
always taught, students can ex
plore black culture and black his
tory on their own.
Black nationalism, Boyd said, is
an attempt to understand black
ness as beautiful, not ugly, in or
der to appreciate humanity.
Separatism desirable
Separatism becomes desirable
when the degree of pain becomes
insufferable, he continued.
He said whites can work and be
together with blacks by studying
non-white history, "by really get
ting into it." He added that blacks
have been betrayed so many times
in the past by whites that work
ing together on problems is not al
ways a solution.
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Housing recommendations
The recommendations of
the University Housing Policy
Committee will be adopted if
there are no extreme objec
tions to its passage, G. Robert
Ross, dean of student affairs,
said Wednesday.
In a two-page report the
committee has recommended
that senior women be allowed
to live off campus beginning
with the 1968-69 academic year
and that the present policy of
requiring freshmen and soph
omore men and women and
junior women to bve on cam
pus be retained.
Although he has not read
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Plans, schedule finalized
for 'World in Revolution9
Students are expected to turn
out in large numbers for the
World in Revolution Conference
Thursday and Friday, according
to Ron Alexander, chairman of the
conference.
"Interest has really built up,"
Alexander said. "All the living un
its have been contacted and post
ers have been put up around the
campus."
The conference's first speaker
Thursday morning was to be Dr.
Nevitt Sanford, professor of psy
chology and education at Stanford
University. He spoke on reforms
in higher education.
Director of Institute
Sanford is director of the Insti
tute for Study of Human Problems
at Stanford. He has been a pri
son psychologist and a director of
studies in child development. He
received his Ph.D. from Harvard.
Sanford has written numerous
articles for magazines and period
icals and has authored several
books. His latest is Where Colleges
Fail, ublished in 1967.
Sanford was present for an in
formal conference wife residence
hall staffs in Schramm Hall's main
lounge Thursday morning.
Informal conference
Thursday afternoon Sanford will
attend an informal conference with
the Centennial College Committee,
a round table discussion with Stu
dent Affairs officials and a dis
n
of Nebraska
as he addressed a University
irtsleeve dialogue
Keeping with his conviction that
people "deghetto-ize" themselves,
Boyd told the audience to "anal
yze me."
"Don't let me get too close to
you," he said, explaining that he
was 44 years old and there comes
a point when students have to
break away to think for themselves
and not receive answers anymore
Spurns hierarchy
He travels as the ordained Epis
copal priest that he is, but spurns
the systematized church and hier
archy. "People are demanding some
thing of honesty and truth in re
ligion." he added. He said the un
derground church movement was
more prevalent in Catholicism than
Protestantism.
"The hell with religion let's
not worship religion in place of
God anymore," he told the group.
the report yet, Ross said Wed-
nesday he was certain the pa
per would be reviewed by Uni
versity Chancellor Clifford
Hardin.
He added that if there was
a policy change of any mag
nitude it would presumably be
reviewed by the Regents.
The eight-member commi
ttee, created by the University
Board of Regents last June,
also said in the report there
can be no justification for
another increase in room and
board rates since both rates
were hiked last year.
cont. on pg. 3
cussion with Educational Psychol
ogy representatives.
At 2 p.m. Thursday, Francis
Fisher. Regional Director of Hous
ing and Urban Development from
Chicago, will meet with Mayor
Sam Schwartzkoph at the Sheldon
Art Gallery. Fisher will speak on
problems in urbanization at 2:30
p.m.
From 1953 to 1962 Fisher was a
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i On Campus
Today
The Student Chapter of the
American Institute of Architects
(SCAIA) will meet at Sheldon Art
Gallery Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
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A zoology seminar will be held
Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in Bessey
Hall auditorium. Dr. Gerald
Schmidt of Colorado State College
in Greeley Colorado will be the
speaker. A brief social time will
be held before the seminar.
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Dr. Clayton Veutter, administra
tive assistant to the governor, will
speak at tfce Agriculture Econom
cs Club Thursday night at 7 p.m.
n the biochemistry auditorium,
room 101. Yeutter will speak on
"Nebraska's Agricultural Prob
lems and Their Significance to
ates."
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The World in Revolution confer
ence begics Thursday with Dr. Ne
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audience Wednesday afternoon.
"I was made an atheist by Sun
day school," Boyd said. He said
the church was too often a club
with ethnic and social require
ments, charging that too many re
gard it as an institution that meets
for one hour on Sunday morning.
"Is God sleeping?'
"It would be interesting if God
Rev. Malcom Boyd
partner in a Chicago law firm. He
came to the Department of Hous
ing and Urban Development from
the Agency for International Devel
opment (AID) where he was Dep
uty Director for the AID missions
in Columbia, South America. Pre
viously, he had been General Coun
sel for the Far East.
Cont. on Pg. 3
vitt Sanford giving the first speech
of the conference at the Nebras
ka Theater at 11 a.m. See Wednes
day's Daily Nebraskan for the
complete conference schedule.
Principal-Freshman conferences
will be held in the Union Thurs
day from 8 a.m. until 3:30 p.m.
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Quiz Bowl competition moves in
to the second round of the final
elimination tournament Thursday
at 7 p.m. in the Union auditor
ium and North Conference Room.
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The Department of Georgraphy,
under sponsorship of the Univer
sity of Nebraska Research Coun
cil will hold an open meeting of
its General Seminar Thursday at
105. Dr. R. L. Heathcote of Flind
ers University, South Australia,
will speak.
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was sleeping during that one hour
on Sunday mornings," he said
with a smile.
lie spoke of the current move
ments aimed at a renewal of the
church, saying that Christ should
not be kept in a stained glass
window.
Boyd talked of the methods he
uses to present Christ to people
in ways he says are current with
the time. Boyd described a period
he and Dick Gregory spent at the
Hungry I coffeehouse in San Fran
cisco as a time in which he held
church services twice nightly Mon
day through Thursday and three
times on the weekends.
"We've made the church a pass
ive thing. We've been vegetables
in it," he said, chiding that peo
ple give up ice cream for lent.
Cont. on Page 3
Committee
redefines
open house
by Mark Gordon
Senior Staff Writer
The Faculty Senate Committee on
Student Affairs approved a re
commendation Wednesday which
redefined an open house and es
tablished a social event without
the controversial open door ruling.
The new event, called IDA
Hours, "encourages educational
and social exchanges on an infor
mal level with the residence hall
system." It would require only
those participating in the event to
leave their doors open.
The policy, which becomes ef
fective Monday, redefined an open
house as an opportunity for dor
mitory students to display their
living environment to the gener
al public in a formal, social at
mosphere. The plan, a recommendation
from the subcommittee on social
affairs and activities, retained the
open door ruling in the open
house event but eliminated it dur
ing IDA Hours.
The open door rule, one of six
stipulations passed last December
by the subcommittee, 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.
Both G. Robert Ross, dean of
student affairs and Bruce Bailey,
Inter-Dormitory Association (IDA)
President, who have been work
ing on the issue this semester, ex
pressed their pleasure at the re
commendation's passage.
Ross, added that if the Univer
sity Board of Regents raises ques
tions to the plan, they could re
view the plan.
Although no limit has been plac
ed on the number of events held,
the subcommittee's recommenda
tion expressed hope there would
not be a concentration of either
situation.
During either event, responsi
bility rests with the student gov
ernment in cooperation with the
residence hall staff.
The plan further stipulated that
the program will be evaluated af
ter a trial period when residence
directors and student officers will
provide facts and judgment for
this review.
Cont. on pag. 3
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