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IN o n I -TY CP NL (I UJJ U L ARCHIVES Friday, April 5, 1968 The Daily Nebraskan Vol. 91, No. 94 DEAD IN V ? ?vtuOr II I llv itnnMn MEMP I 1 XX II I XXI I I wiiimiinimnn!iniHinini!iimiiuuiimiiuiHiNiiiiimiiiiiiniiiiniiiniiiniunNiiiiis I World in review I Hanoi has begun lifting the siege of Khe Sanh as a sign of its good intentions, Soviet informants in London said Thursday. They said the North Vietna mese have assured the United States privately they will launch no major offensive if all American bomb ing attacks are halted. The Russian informants said Hanoi did not con sult Moscow before Wednesday's conditional accep tance of President Johnson's call for peace talks. it it President Johnson will fly to Hawaii Friday to discuss peace and war prospects with top American and Saigon officials. He will probably meet former President Dwight D. Eisenhower at March Air Force Base in Califor nia on his way. Gen. William C. Westmoreland, Gen. Earle G. Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other top military officials will attend the meeting. Hopeful comments about the recent develop ments have come from such critics as French Presi dent Charles de Gaulle and Chairman J. W. Ful bnght, D-Ark., of the Senate Foreign Relations com mittee. Pope Paul IV and Secretary-General U Thant cf the U.N. expressed cautious optimism. Fulbright said he hoped U.S.-North Vietnamese discussions "would lead to a cessation of war acts, and I would rope to a cease-fire and a solution to the war." Lincoln Journal it it ft The third stage of America's Saturn 5 rocket failed to restart in space Thursday after the first two stages quit earlier. Officials said the problems coujd delay the country's man-to-the-moon program. The rocket did send the unmanned 132 ton, Apol lo moon ship into orbit, however. The goal of the flight was to establish whether the Saturn 5 could safely send an Apollo space craft into orbit, an officer of the National Aeronau tics and Space Administration said Thursday. Lincoln journal ft ft ft The new president of Czechoslovakia, Gen. Lud vik Svoboda, marks a break with the Communist party tradition. General Svoboda is a member of the Commu nist Party, but bolds no office in it. His three pre decessors rose through the ranks of the party from working class origins to become chief of state. Christian Science Monitor ft ft ft Walkouts in seven Negro and Mexican-American high schools in Los Angeles are indicative of trou ble in the summer. In early March hundreds of teen-agers walked out of schooL The ethnic groups make up 40 per cent of the city' 800,000-student schooL IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII1I1III11IIU!IIIIIIIII!1IIIIIIII!IIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!IIIIII!IIII5 Cainpi iii review The University of Minnesota has suspended the publication of its yearbook, the Gopher, because of increasing expenses. A contest is now being held to find a name for the new publication which will be published three times a year. Each edition will con tain pictures of seniors and the three issues can be purchased bound together at the end of the year. ft ft ft The University of South Dakota senate passed re5F favog abolishment of compul sory ROTC. The resolution will now be sent to the Board of Regents. ft ft ft Students at the State University of New York at Stony Brook have organized a free university of fering 37 courses. The courses range from Cpsmo f ony to Medieval Torture and Self-Fiagilation. ft ft ft A "?e$ ditoril in the University of Missouri's "Maneater" caUed for the legalization of marijua na citing the harm also derived from cigarettes and alcohol and the lack of evidence indicating long er short-range physical problems resulting from the smoking of marijuana as arguments. ft ft ft hmvSSJae PoBitJve Action K"3 Ste !1 f1! Program of faculty evaluation. The 2f MbLnnder to for more than a year by the student senate- Questionnaires are avaU We to anyone for evaluating three faculty meZ it -if it povJS?nUi!LBoard of Ature. Colorado States fn?g0C,y-ipprtved "commended tuition increase. The action calls for a $15 a quarter in crease for aU Colorado residents and IsOaquIrS Z T'fuEJiCatl Tuitioa rit toe new schei 2 f the academic year of three quarters will be gfpay nSli0 mideMl Md rtSnte ft ft ft Because of the increasing number of fraterni ties on the Creighton campus, a subcommittee has been formed to "investigate the problems and out looks for fraternities and sororities and to make suit able recommendations to the University Policy Com mittee. ft ft ft The Kansas Union Operating Board at the Uni versity of Kansas is conducting a survey of student epiniua on the feasibility of serving beer in the Kan sas Union. A subcommittee will contact 600 persons before the spring break and make a recommends ttfo to the Operation Board. The mayor of Memphis clapped a tight curfew on his city Thursday evening after the death of Dr. Martin Lather King, Jr. All travel in the city was forbidden except for emergency reasons. King, winner of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, was shot in the back of the neck while standing on his motel balcony last Thursday. Police arrest ed two men several blocks from the motel. King was leading garbage strike marches in Memphis. March 27 a wave of violence followed a march when King lost control of the more militant members of the crowd. One boy was killed, 62 persons were injured and 200 arrested. Police put out a bulletin for "a young, white male, well-dressed," arter King was shot. Police said the assassin dropped his weapon while running down Ma'n Street about a block from the shooting. King has been the leading Negro exponent of non-violent demonstra te January 30, 1948, the bullet of a Hindu fanatic felled Mohandas Gandhi, the saintly leader of non-violent resistance in India. At 8:05 last night, Martin Luther King, perhaps the last hope for achieving Negro Civil rights through peaceful means, 'was killed by an assassin's bullet in Memphis. tions for several years. He was con sidered the leading figure in the civil rights movement. Dr. King was president of the South ern Christian Leadership Conference. A wave of rioting spread through the ghettos of the south following the announcement of King's death. Ne groes were reported battling police in Memphis, looting and throwing rocks in Miami. Raleigh, N.C., Jackson, Miss., and Birmingham, Ala. President Johnson postponed his trip to Hawaii to begin talks with his ad- Candidates present views at Hyde Park visers on possible peace negotia tions with Hanoi. The President told an aide he would make a decision on his departure in the morning. In Harlem Mayor John Lindsay of New York was reported walking the streets of the ghetto in an attempt to prevent violence. Disturbances had broken out however, and extra police men were being called into duty. Wednesday night, King told a rally near the spot, where he died that "Like anybody, I would like to live a long life . . . but I'm not concerned about that "I just want to do God's will and He has allowed me to go up the moun tain and I've looked over and I've seen the promised land. "I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything." In Indiana Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, on the verge cf tears, asked his audi ence to "say a prayer for our coun try." Kennedy made his first refer ence to his brother's death in Dallas in sympathizing with his primarily Negro audience. "A member of my family was killed," Kennedy said. "Ue was killed by a white man." "For those of you who are black." Kennedy told the audience, "who are tempted to be filled with hatred at the injustice of such an act, I can also feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling." King's 10-yfar-old battle for civil rights ended in the emergency room of St. Joseph's hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. He died with a gaping hole in the right side of his throat from an assassin's bullet. by Jim Pedersen Junior Staff Writer Only a handful of students were present Thursday afternoon in the Ne braska Union to hear the candidates for executive positions in ASUN pres ent their views on campus issues. Craig Dreeszen, a junior in the Col lege of Agriculture, is the Party for Student Action candidate for president of ASUN, and Mike Naeve, a junior in business, is running for first vice president on the same ticket. Opposing Dreeszen and Naeve are Dave Shonka. a junior in Arts and Sciences, and Paul Canarsky, a junior in Teachers College, running for presi dent and first vice-president respec tively on an executive slate. Shonka outlined his platform as di vided into two parts. The first criti cized last year's ASUN: the remain der attacked policies he felt should be enacted. Shonka verbally attacked the Sen ate for not keeping the students in formed on issues before the senate. He cited the Bill of Rights, a bill stat- ing basic student rights, as an exam ple. He also criticized ASUN for not chal lenging the administration on such pol icies as open housing and drug usage on campus. There is a lack of communication between students and the ASUN, Shon ka said. The students don't know what is going on, and therefore they do not get involved on campus, he added. According to Canarsky, the primary problem with the University is a class room atmosphere which does not give the student a sense of meaning. The classrooms are too large, Can arsky said. Students and faculty should work together to help reduce class room size, he said. Shonka then blamed ASUN for apa thy on the University campus. Shonka cited instances of students who were suspended from school with out a proper hearing, and said ASUN did not come to their aid. "There it so much ambiguity in the present court system that it is a farce. Students don't know where to go," Shonka said. According to Shonka, one of the poli cies he intends to promote is the shift ing of the meeting place of senate from week to week. There should be a rotation of Sen ate meeting m fraternities, sororities. East Campus, dorms, as well as ia the Union, Shonka said. Shonka added that increased student pressure could result in administra tion policies for better recreational and parking facilities on Campus. "We feel that last year's ASUN was a failure largely because of PSA," Canarsky said In order for ASUN to succeed, it will need support from the students. Shonka said. "If we are elected. ASUN represen tatives will not need to recapitulate to the students what they have done one year from now; the students will know about it," he added. Dreeszen defended ASUN on the grounds that it is attacking relative is sues but is doing it more quietly. He added that th Bill of Rights is a case in point. "Had we given the Board of Regents an ultimatum, we would have had to demonstrate," Dreeszen said. "Instead the executive went to Chancellor Clif ford Hardin with the bill, and it will now be presented to the ASUN on Sun day and the students next Wednes day," Dreeszen added. Dreeszen admitted that there had been a communication failure between ASUN and the students and gave two reasons: (1) No concentrated effort to communicate with the students was made by ASUN. and (2) most of projects of ASUN were long range programs which will affect the Uni versity ixt year. Dreeszen stated the PSA platform is based on education, student welfare, and student power. Nebraska Free University, pass-fail legislation, and the Centennial Col lege are examples of PSA action in education according to Dreeszen. PSA is attempting to maintain a con tinuity of leadership and programs by enacting long range projects, Drees zen said. The candidates opened the debate to questions from the audience, and one student asked what had become of the study to re-district ASUN senator elections. Shonka said that he did not consid er re-districting a dead issue, and would like to see a committee appoint ed to study the problem again. The way to bring about better senator-student communication is to force the senators to face their constitu ents frequently, Dreeszen said. Re-districting could accomplish this, he added. Canarsky presented his view on the roll of lie first vice-president in Stu dent Senate, by saying that it is the duty of the first vice-president to pub lish the issues in the senate to the students and the administration. " According to Naeve, the first vice president should serve as a liaison between the Senate and the students. He added that the first vice-president should sound out the tenor of the ex ecutive and keep in touch with the senators. r..-..lll.l.'M - II Ill II, ..MH.MILMLM.il. Ji ) I I ' . ". j ..r v ..... f ' it ' ' r i f i $ f :: : il'-T" vv- 4 if i if j y H tv I if 1 vl j.in in li'M'ii iniiiir n . i ..i..ii.i.iiii.iiriiiiini r iiiii.ii.i...iiin.l.iti tljf , r . La'" .1 4 'We Want a revolution now!' protests the east of the Uni versity's production of Marat Sade. Cheryl Hansen rehearses her role of Charlotte Cordoy. The performances begin May 3. SDS draft to present teach-iii by Kent Corkson Senior Staff Writer The teach-in on the draft sponsored by Students for a Democratic Socie ty (SDS) and presented by the Ne braska Draft Registers Union (NDRU) was a success, according to Dave Bun nell, co-chairman of SDS. The event drew a crowd of 40 or v- it , , 4 t 4 IF ,( l V J i V ' ) - V " V ..r The first AWS Congress met Thursday. Co-ordinating their first meeting were AWS execu tives Oeft to right) Nancy Eaton, Man! Baker, Nesha Ncsineisfer snd Karen WenuL Story on page 4. more, most of whom stayed through out the three-hour program to bear a panel of six speakers present their ideas about the draft and in fact the whole draft resistance movement Leonard Kaplan, a University assis tant professor of law, said upon open ing the discussion that the draft will never come under consideration in the Supreme Court because be war in Vietnam is dangerous to the Court po litically. Draft violations tried He added that any case involving the violations of the draft will be tried on other grounds. He added that there is a tremen dous danger in putting faith in some of the decisions the Supreme Court makes because they are acts of "di vine rhetoric and there is a tremen dous gap between what is said and what is done." The crux of the matter, Kaplan said, is in understanding what the draft is aside from the Vietnam conflict and then discussing the issue to "get the paranoia out of the crowd." Free speech lost? The consequence of not talking about the draft issue openly and critically may be the complete loss of tee speech, be said. Continued on Pf. 5 9 :! N I ! 1 1 ft i lit ?? I ft ' 1 1 ; f k: r 5 . if 1 f 4 i .trs m . m