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f . ' ! L 10GS APR 3 LI US ILU UUUUU Vol. 91, No. 92 Tne Dolly Nebraskan v Wednesday, April 3, 1968 IBjThe fn: IT w7 ILU Li U AU Y9 MMl n : v' ' ' : U - -,., . II I Senator Eugene McCarthy told to seek the Nebraska national by Kent Cockson Senior Staff Writer Although Reserve Officer's Training Corps units around the country have had their contro versial moments, the ROTC pro grams at the University seem to fit in very well with the ways of higher education. Much of the national contro versy stems from the compulsory nature of ROTC at various uni versities. At the University of Newark, about 25 students marched into the middle of an ROTC drill session last fall shouting "S!eg HeU" and "ROTC makes us men" to pro test compulsory ROTC require ments. At Stanford and Berkeley last month, Navy ROTC buildings were uiiiiiiiHiiiiiiHimiiiHiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiii iiHtiiimiiiimmiiiiiiiiinHiiiiiiiimimiiiiinnKiiiHnn imiimii On Campus Today i A meeting for persop; latcrested In organizing a campaign for young adult sufferage on the Uni versity campui will be held Wednesday at 7 p.m. in Room 103 of the H building. Election of of ficers win be held and all Inter ested students are urged to attend. ft The student branch of the ASAE wOl meet Wednesday at 7:30 in Room 206 of the Agriculture En gineering HaU. . v" -ft ft 'ft , Men's Ivy Day Sing Chairmen will meet Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Union. Rules of the sing will be discussed and the preliminary tryout date will be announced. It is not necessary that the living units have their song selected by this meeting, but the final elec tion must be turned into Bill Strat man no later than April ;: ' ft ft The Mechanical Agriculture Club will meet in the Agriculture Engi neering building Wednesday at 7 p.m. A representative from the John Deere Co. wiU flscuss prog ress and distribution in his company. TV v 4 and Omaha audience Tuesday that it was a moral obligation judgment of youth on political issues. ROTC program controversy, remains set afire. And at Moorehead Uni versity in Kentucky, three facul- iy memuers wcic uj "-- "stuaenis wm no. lane auvoii their contracts for next year will . 0f tj,e program to its fullest a T jv.frit.maH that ho, hoon artivplv ODDOSUlS COm- pulsory ROTC along with some of the students. Compulsory ROTC requirements were abolished at all land-grant colleges in Nebraska in 1963. This included the University of Ne braska. . Bishop has mixed feelings Col. James Bishop, professor of military science and commander of the University Army ROTC de partment, said that he has "mixed feelings as a taxpayer" about the Angel Flight will sponsor a "Blue Yonder Workshop" Wednes day at 7 p.m. in the Union. The workshop is designed to acquaint wives or finaces of men In the armed services with the problems of military life. EE KEEN PholM ftp Du LwMr voluntary program currently of fered. , , . , x J.. n "Rut sneakinff as an officer. I would say that the voluntary pro gram enrollees are more inter ested,, more dedicated and we don't have as much trouble with them as with those who would be disgruntled if they had to par ticipate in a compulsory pro gram," he said. : The average high school gradu ate has something to learn from the two-year basic course, he added, in that there is a certain amount to be said for the disci pline the incoming student re ceives. ' Cadet walks straighter "The, ROTC cadet walks a little straighter with a little more con fidence than he ordinarily would," he said. , . Bishop added that if all the op portunities are available to the University student and if it is proven that these opportunities do add to4 the student's develop ment, then the University of Ne -fit .v'i 4 - "1, McCarthy by youth by John Dvorak Junior Staff Writer Omaha Senator, Eugene McCarthy said here Tuesday that it is a matter of moral obligation to seek out the judgment of the young people of the United . States on political issues.. McCarthy spoke to an audience of about 2,000, the ; majority , of them students and young people, at the Civic Auditorium. Interspersed in, the crowd were approximately 55 McCarthy work ers from the University of Colo rado. McCarthy to speak . Sen. McCarthy will speak in Lincoln at Pershing Municipal Au ditorium Wednesday, April 10, at 8 p.m. "Supposedly the youth of this McCarthy said. "But this has been repudiated by what has happened in the campaign." "I want to give these young people a chance to participate," McCarthy stated. The Senator, seeming to enjoy his brief association with the young crowd, appeared relaxed and did not appear tired from his arduous months of campaigning. McCarthy theorized that the older generation does not want to be separated from the younger escapes most of voluntary braska is losing if it does not adequately inform the incoming student of the possibilities under the voluntary ROTC programs. "In other words," he said, "I would not be an officer today, and I have drawn a lot of per sonal satisfaction from my last 30 years as an officer, if I had not been required to take those first two years of ROTC and after wards make my own decision to go on." In the ROTC catalogue, which is made available to incoming students upon Tequest only, Chan cellor Clifford Hardin commends any one of the programs to the incoming student. Backgrounds essential to defense "T h e diversified educational backgrounds and leadership quali ties of university . graduates are essential to the defense posture of the United States in the world today. Future . duties as a junior officer in a service of your choos ing will challenge your abilities to the fullest," he says. But the most drastic develop ment recently concerning ROTC has been the initiation of a move GENE- jiiiiirEiifa seeks judgment on one. "The older generation is positively delighted to have young people talk with them about prob lems and politics." , Reconciliation begun "We have already begun to have a reconciliation between the older and younger generations of this country," he said. McCarthy gave a brief ftistory of his campaign: "At first my support came from the academic . community and from young people," he "said. "Now we have supporters in ev ery vocation." "I thought that the people should be able to say yes or no on the issues at' the ballot box," McCarthy said. ' Johnson not candidate McCarthy was all but discounted from the running before the New Hampshire Presidential primary. But in that election, he received 41 per cent of the Democratic vote, and, after Republican write in votes were tabulated, the Sena tor was only several hundred votes short of the incumbent President Johnson, who announced Sunday that he would not be a candidate for reelection. "By the Nebraska primary, we hope to have just one Democra tic candidate," McCarthy said. ment to deny academic credit for ROTC courses. Three schools Boston Univer sity, .Northeastern University in Boston and Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Md. have already voted to withdraw credit for ROTC courses. The services are aware that the quality of their ROTC training is coming under scrutiny, and most university ROTC detachments are making an effort to liberalize their courses, make them similar to other college courses. There are some ROTC instruc tors and personnel, however, who are opposed to the demands for liberalization, according to a mili tary spokesman. They argue that the employment of civilian teach- . ers to administer .any of their courses, even the basic ones, will subtract from the quality , of the courses in two ways. Instructors say that civilian teachers do not share a compar able military background to the ' military instructors now teaching and therefore are not as qualified or interested in educating the stu dent on strictly military subject matter. ,, Continued on Page 3 5 t V - t X 1 1 si: political issues The. Senator defined the basic issue of the campaign as how the United States can best effect a settlement in Vietnam and on other old and new national issues. Americans ready to judge He said, "I think the American people are prepared to pass jud ment on Vietnam and domestic issues at the polls." Judgments of these needs, both home and abroad, are now before the American people. He said that a decision must be made with reference to the President of the United States. McCarthy, emphasizing his viewpoint of the Presidency, said, "Because of the way our govern ment operates, we have a chance to bring it down once every four years. We call upon the people to commit themselves with great trust. The President has flreat power over not only this nation but in international affairs as well." "I feel that in my 20 years in Congress, I know what the prob lems are," he said. "I feel that no one currently in the running for the Presidency today has been as clear on the issues as I have," McCarthy stated. McCarthy's speech included comments on specific, pertinent issues. . Riot report not surprising "The President's report on riots was excellent, but there was nothing surprising in it," he said. "It showed how inadequate our present efforts in this area are." The farmer seeks parity, he continued. The farmer does not deserve special privileges, just a life as good as other Americans have. "The withdrawal of President Johnson doesn't significantly in fluence the issues facing the United States," he said. "The problems of the United States still remain." "The United States must cleanse itself of moral uncertainty and build on the tradition of hope, confidence and sound judgment, he entoned. "If we do this in 1968, we won't have to worry about it in 1984." Hardin will getSAF document Senate to meet to take action The final draft of the Student Academic Freedom document will be presented to the Chancellor on Wednesday, according to Dick Schulze, ASUN President and a member of the committee which drafted the document. Schulze said a special session of Student Senate will be called this weekend to discuss the docu ment and take appropriate action. He said the statement would then go on the ASUN general elec tion ballot to be approved or re jected by the student body in the April 10 election. The Chancellor's Student Aca demic Freedom Committee was formed last September to imple ment the Bill of Rights into Uni versity policy. The Bill of Rights was approved as 17 amendments to the ASUN constitution in last year's ASUN general election. Schulze said he is hopeful the Chancellor will . recommend the document be adapted by Student Senate, Faculty Senate and the Boird of Regents. ..e added he knows of no oppo sition by Student Senators to the , document. The last available draft of the , document was distributed to living unit presidents two weeks ago. it S3 It 3 i 1 4 1 S' i v : II ! . t ! i 'i i 1 i r