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The Daily Nebraskan
Vol. 91, No. 97
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I Picketing continues
Concerned University students and Lincoln res
idents move into their fourth day of picketing Thurs
day in their attempt to prompt the Lincoln Board
of Realtors to remedy what they term existing
unfair housing practices in Lincoln. .
The demonstrators will meet at 11:45 Thurs
day at the State Federal Securities Building at
134 S. 13th, Bob Ginn, group coordinator, said.
Ginn said Wednesday, the demonstrators have
asked the realtors to adopt a three point program.
Regents
The Board of Regents came un
der fire Wednesday for coming to
the defense of Draft Resistance
leader Charles Marxer, a philos
ophy instructor.
In a statement released yester
day, the Board of Regents an
nounced their "complete and un
nanimous disagreement with Mr.
Marxer and his ill-advised re
marks." Despite this the Regents said
that "in a democratic society, Mr.
Marxer as any citizen, has a right
to express his personal views, dis
agreeable as they may be."
Marxer organized League
Marxer, a visiting philosophy in
structor who will leave the Uni
versity at the end of this semes
ter, organized the Nebraska Draft
Resistance League last month. He
spoke in opposition to the Viet
nam war and the draft at a re
cent Hyde Park in the Nebraska
Union.
State Senator Clifton Batcheld
er said in an interview Tuesday
that the University had gotten out
of the voters' control, as the Re
gents' refusal to fire Marxer indi
No summer 'take-home' courses ready
by Jim Evinger
Senior Staff Writer
Though s-t u d e n t s and faculty
alike are interested in conducting
summer "take-home reading"
courses, it appears now there will
be no such courses available this
summer.
"As of right now economics is
the only department indicating in
terest for this summer and no de
finite plan has been formulated,"
said Nancy Eaton, chairman of the
Arts and Sciences College Advis
ory Board;
"I plan to ask them to hold their
program until next year so that we
can organize a comDlete, well
planned program in many of the
departments," Miss Eaton said.
The idea of the take-home read
ing course was initiated success
fully last spring under the guidance
of Nesha Neumeister and Robert
Hough, associate dean of the Col
lege of Arts and Sciences.
defend Marxer
cates.
Batchelder said that he had
asked the Regents to remove Mar-,
xer "on the basis that he is an
undesirable Influence on the youth
of our state."
Moral courage lacking
"If the Board does not have the
moral courage to assume manage
ment responsibility in the inter
ests of the taxpayers, they should
step aside and let the people elect
a new board," he said.
On Campus
Today
The Young Democrats will pre
sent the movie, "Thousand Days"
this evening at 7:30 p.m. in Love
Library Auditorium. The movie
highlights the John F. Kennedy ad
ministration before the former
President's assassination. Admis
sion is 75 cents.
University of Nebraska Dames
will elect new officers this evening
at 7:30 p.m. in the Union.
' An English course was offered
to students with a 2.5 grade aver
age. After reading the course's
books all summer, the 36 students
who participated returned last fall
to take an exam. All of the stu
dents passed the test, receiving
three hours credit on their record.
It was offered on a pass-fail bas
is. Hough said the students were en
thusiastic about the English course
and strongly urged its continuance.
He said he has already received
a number of phone calls from stu
dents desiring to take the course
this summer.
He termed it a highly success
ful inovation, adding he thinks there
is still enough time in the semes
ter to formulate another take-home
course for this summer.
Early in the first semester Miss
Neumeister approached the Arts
and Sciences Advisory Board
which agreed to sponsor the take-
cCarthy: pass history's
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test, 1984 may never come
by Kent Cockson
Senior Staff Writer
In his campaign speech Wednes
day night, Sen. Eugene McCarthy
said that if he and his supporters
can pass "the test in 1968, then
1984 may never come."
The 8 o'clock program was run
ning about 15 minutes behind sched
ule when the people began clap
ping for a McCarthy appearance.
Moments later, McCarthy entered
from the rear of Pershing Audi
torium surrounded by campaign
workers and receiving generous
applause from those who filled
about three-fourths of the auditor
ium. Noting a sign that read "It was
awfully lonely in New Hampshire"
stretched across one wall, McCar
thy said he will continue to dis
prove those who laughed at the
beginning of his campaign and con
sidered it a children's crusade.
McCarthy said his campaign to
challenge the judgment of the ad
ministration is "not a test in iso
lation but a test in history when
we are called upon to demonstrate
not only heroic virtues like courage
but also unheroic virtues like pa
tience and forbearance."
The democratic presidential
hopeful added that college students
of the present administration and
that public dissent first centered
on the campus.
He added that he looks for stu
dents to carry on the campaign and
he assured students (who compris
ed most of the crowd) that they
and their fellows had done the
right thing.
The program asks that:
"realtors refuse to accept the listing con
tract of any individual homeowner or landlord who
wishes to discriminate by race, color or creed in
the sale or rental of his property."
"that Lincoln realtors propose a model open
housing bill."
"that Lincoln realtors locate and remedy
cases of discrimination through a real estate coun
seling service staffed by realtors."
In the Regents' release, Board
President B. N. Greenberg stated
that extensive investigatons by lo
cal and federal authorities have
not detected any violations of the
law.
"Review by faculty members has
not revealed abuse of his teach
ing responsibilities in the c 1 a s s
room," Greenberg said.
The statement said further that
Regents are "convinced that the
vast majority of the faculty and
the student body does not support
(Marxer's) position."
The Quiz Bowl will be held at
6:45 this evening in the Union.
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A U.S. Marine Corps Officer Se
lection Team will be in the Union
today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The
Marine Corps has officer programs
available for freshmen through se
niors; all lead to a second lieu
tenant's commission upon gradua
tion. home courses.
The general attitude of the board
members was for expansion of the
program to other departments in
the Arts and Sciences College,
Hough, the board advisor, said.
He explained that each board
member was assigned two or three
department heads to work with in
establishing courses on a take
home basis.
He said it would be up to each
department to set the requirement
for the courses it would offer.
Miss Eaton said the members
were assigned too late in the years
to approach the department heads.
She indicated the board had given
priority throughout the year to oth
er projects it has been working
on.
David Landis, a board member,
said the members were told some
time after the spring semester be
gan to contact their assigned de
partment heads.
McCarthy listed three reasons
student involvement is so vital in
the 1968 election.
First, America needs a greater
commitment of knowledge in solv
ing its problems.
Second, McCarthy said, when a
problem arises in America today,
there is a tendency to find the
man who knows the most about
the problem, and society now turns
to the college campus for help.
' The third reason for emphasiz
ing student involvement, he said,
iis that "we're dealing with an
'America projected into the future."
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NU's
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The University grading system
will be virtually back on the 9-point
scale due to an amendment pass
ed Tuesday by the Faculty Senate.
Professor Royce Knapp pre
sented the amendment, which pass
ed two-to-one margin. It provides
four "plus" grades in addition to
the present A.B.C.D, and E. The
new system will go into effect im
mediately. The scale additions are:
AX - 4.5; BX - 3.5; CX - 2.5;
DX-1.5.
Landis explained he met resis
tance from the department heads
with whom he talked. He said they
were not ready at this time to
incorporate such a course into the
curriculum. He added they also
wanted the assurance of other fac
ulty members that such a course
could be adopted.
Miss Eaton said the advisory
board had intended to offer sum
mer reading courses through the
Extension Division of the Univer
sity. She placed the reason for no
courses being offered this summer
on the fact that the board began
too late to work for them.
"I would rather not offer any
thing at this point," she s a i d.
"We were happy to takk on the
project last fall, but could not sac
rifice the programs already going.
It will be first on the agenda for
the new board."
He added that since this projec
tion involves trust, hope and the
country's youth, and if the young
people are williing to take a. chance
on the future to make it better,
then the nation's political leaders
"ought to be willing to take the
chances with you."
McCarthy called his campaign a
politics of responsibility, reason
and decision.
He said that in the past, a war
was justified if the good coming
from the war was proportionate to
the lives lost, but he said that this
was not so in Vietnam and he gave
grading
includes
Professor Knapp said Wednes
day that the amendment stemmed
from the findings of an Ad Hoc
faculty committee formed to in
vestigate grading problems.
"We found that depending on the
college, 35 to 48 per cent of the
freshmen at the University were
on scholastic probation this year,"
Knapp said.
"This is inconsistent, because for
the past several years, 80 per cent
of the University's freshman class
has come from the upper one-half
of their high school graduating
classes," he said.
In addition, the committee fur
ther found that in every other
class, sophomore, junior and sen-
Outgoing ASUN President
Dick Schulze termed the
Faculty Senates grading
change "a slap in the face to
what ASUN has worked for
all year."
Schulze said that the move
goes against the basic points
outlined in the newly re
leased Student Academic
Freedom Committee report.
"We can't let this issue go
by without some reconsider
ation," Schulze said. "Stu
dents have been bypassed on
this item that directly effects
them."
Schulze met Wednesday
evening with student leaders
to discuss student position on
the quick decision.
credit to President Johnson for his
response to the public demands for
a negotiated peace soon.
McCarthy said that the most
pressing need domestically is a so
lution to deal with the problems in
America's great cities, and that
the problem has been underscored
by the assassination of Martin Lu
ther King.
He added that every citizen
should have the right to a decent
job, education, health and medical
attention and a house in a decent
neighborhood.
system
"plusses"
ior, the present overall average
is lower than the 1965 overall av
erages, when the school used the
9-point system.
"We found little evidence of cur
riculum change or higher stan
dards. Therefore we had to con
clude that the problem was in the
grading scale," Knapp said.
"This change will decrease the
chances for 'C students to go
on scholastic probation,", he con
tinued. "We expect 20 to 25 per
cent of the freshmen to be put on
scholastic probation, but four or
five out of ten is impossible."
Knapp noted that students "owe
a debt" to Chancellor Hardin, who
initiated the investigation into the
grading scale. A deans' study pre
sented to Hardin caused him to
appoint 4he committee consisting
of Knapp, Professor Frank Dudek
of Psychology, and Professor Lyle
Young of Engineering Mechanics.
"Evidently the four-point system
was bciiig misued here," Knapp
said. "At this university, a 2.C av
erage is the minimum average to
stay in good standing, but it is
also the exact middle of the grad
ing scale."
He further stated that other
schools who successfully use the
four-point system must give more
grades of B.
"The University is the only
school in the Big Eight with a drop
out rate of 1,000 a year," Knapp
said.
"These kids didn't just flunk out,
either. Some dropped out because
they didn't think they would be
able to graduate," Knapp said.
