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this summer
"To me this course is what education should
be on your own, some guidance where needed,
but with all the mickey mouse cut out."
v. This was the type of reaction the summer take
home English course, originated last year, received
from the 36 students who took the course.
This summer probably no students, unfortu
nately, will have the opportunity to participate in
the course due to the inefficiency of the Arts and
Sciences Advisory Board.
...... Last year Dean Robert Hough and a student
senator worked for several months outlining an ex
perimental English course in which students could
read the novels over the summer and take an exam
on the pass-fail system the following fall. Academic
credit was given for the course.
The course proved to be a tremendous suc
cess. No students failed the course and most of
them suggested that the course should be expanded
to other departments.
After the coarse was evaluated It was placed
In the willing hands of the Arts and Sciences Ad
visory Board last December.
There the course died in the round file of un
finished work which appears to be is much
thicker than the file labeled "work done."
The project would have required time yes
but that is precisely why the students on the ad
visory board were elected to contribute their
time and efforts to improve the arts and sciences
department.
If the advisory board felt it was too overbar
dened with other pressing matters It shouldn't have
accepted the job in the first place.
On second investigation it is extremely diffi
cult to pinpoint why the other activities were oc
cupying so much of the board's energies. The board
laid the ground work for a senior seminar pro
gram. They've been working on this project for
years and it is still in the foundation stage.
But otherwise the board has little to show for
an entire year's work. Most of their projects such
as the student advising system and the survey
of six departments to be presented to the Unicam
eral were in connection with Senate committees,
so the responsibility wasn't entirely left to the
board.
A new arts and advisory board was elected
yesterday. Instead of the usual year's work to
accomplish they'll probably have the equivalent of
two years work to complete. Top priority should
be given to the summer take home courses, and
the board must act now.
There is a slim possibility that if the board
organizes quickly it can still continue the summer
program and extend it into other departments,
but immediate attention is needed.
Cheryl Tritt
I Campus Opinion f
Dear Editor: ,
Several members of the AS4000 AFROTC clasa
would like to respond to an editorial by you con
cerning ROTC. Some of us can agree with you on
some of the points you made. Certainly the curricu
lum of ROTC should be constantly re-evaluted and
revised. Most of the AFROTC class members agree
that the program is better for the Air Force and
the University if it is not a required course.
As far as ROTC's place on campus, that is for
the University, the taxpayers of Nebraska, and na
tional policy to decide. The military itself is subor
dinate to civilian authority, and therefore it is ulti
mately the people who decide the place of the mili
tary. We have to disagree with some of your state
ments. From our experience in the AFROTC pro
gram we believe at least some are inaccurate. We
can speak only of the Air Force ROTC program
since it is the only one with which we have experi
ence. We do not know of any cadet in Air Force ROTC
who has taken more than the required 16 hours for
the four year program or 19 hours if he chooses to
fly. Your statement "many" enroll in more ROTC
courses than required is inaccurate at least as far
as AFROTC is concerned.
We consider the last two years of AFROTC in
particular more academic than many of the so-call
academic courses. Since our junior year subjects
such as aerospace, communication, management,
organization, world events and principles of leader
snip have been covered.
How many former Air Force officers do you
know who are on welfare? Many large corporations,
airlines, educational institutions, and professions se
fit to open their doors to officers leaving active duty.
The Air Force possibly offers more chances for ed
ucation than many civilian industries.
Several of us will get our master's degrees and
at least one cadet will receive a doctorate before
active duty. Rare is the officer who does not get
additional schooling while in the Air Force. Many
return to universities while in the Air Force, to seek
advanced degrees.
You say our basic purpose is war. That definl
" tion is yours. The people decide our ultimate mis
sion so if it is war it is what they have decided, not
the members of the ROTC program or the Air Force
Our ultimate and overall mission is currently de
fined as that of peace. Air Force officers hold a
high regard for peace since they often see the dif
ference between peace and war first hand. You say
our purpose is war.
You say our purpose is war. We ask you who
airlifted food to the Indians of the Southwest during
the snowstorm or who flew in the sandbags to Grand
Island during last year's flood? This is part of our
purpose to help when it is needed.
Remember, whatever our purpose is, it is the
people who define it and when and if they think
that purpose is wrong, they can change It The Air
Force is subordinate to civilian authority.
One last point must be made. You say if credit
were not given then ROTC programs-would disap
pear from campuses. We doubt this. The College of
Engineering does not allow credit in excess of three
hours for any ROTC courses. Yet, we still have all
the engineers our program will allow. As far as
engineering students are concerned this has not
made a significant difference.
David Powell
George Boeshart
W.Eric Wood
D. R. Murray
Claude Bolton Jr.
Sam Pizzo Jr.
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Aim and the Reader's Digest
If Nebraska has "an elite
law enforcement agency" it
must be the Nebraska State
Patrol.
Starched-and-pressed hulk
ing six-footers all, the Patrol
men combine to form an ef
ficient, reliable, and even pro
fessional extension to the
state's legal arm, which is
otherwise best described as a
stump.
Knowing this, and aware of
the good senator Carpenter's
movings and shakings con
cerning drugs on the campus,
I decided to pay a visit to the
state's recently-formed drag
control division, which Is op
erated under the auspices of
the State Patrol.
The head of the division, the
man who bears the dubious
responsibility of. deflowering
Nebraska's budding flower
children, is Sgt. Wayne Rowe.
Before my visit, I suspected
that all drug users on the cam
pus had reason to be ex
tremely paranoid now I'm
not so sure. But read on be
fore you light that joint in the
middle of an Emily Dickinson
lecture.
First of all, Sgt. Rowe def
initely has his mind right for
the job. He is a part of the
Old Guard that still believes
marijuana to be "the weed
with its roots in Hell."
Marijuana, he told me
solemnly, leads to addiction,
crime, and a general break
down of the foursquare princi
ples of ambitious free enter
prise upon which our great
country is based.
The Sargeant had a filing
cabinet full of literature on
drugs including the report
of the Task Force on Law En
forcement, better know as the
President's Crime Commis
sion. The Task Force was chaired
by that flaming radical Nicho
las Katzenbach, and included
such academic and social
know-nothings as Kingman
Brewster, the President of
Yale, and Whitney Young,
head of the Urban League.
But the report on the whole
is somewhat sympathetic to a
more liberal legal stance con
cerning marijuana. "T h e
points made against it," (the
present rather strict laws
concerning grass possession)
"deserve a hearing."
So, I asked Sgt. Rowe if he
had read the report. He had,
so I quoted him several pas
sages. I asked Rowe how the old
theory that marijuana leads to
crime held np in light of the
medical report quoted in the
Commission's findings:
"The Medical Society of the
County of New York has
stated flatly that there is no
evidence that marijuana use
is associated with crimes of
violence in this country."
"That's not true," Rowe
protested. He produced, as
refutation, a Reader's Digest
reprint entitled, in the best
Digestese, "Cool Talk about
Hot Drugs."
I read Rowe another pas
sage from the President's re
port casting doubt on the old
saw that marijuana leads to
addiction.
Rowe responded with a Xe
roxed copy of I swear to
God an Ann Landers Column
complete with her wholesome
toothy, and probably false,
grin.
I asked Rowe if he had ever
tried any of the drugs he is
so interested in wiping out
with the serious thought that
personal experience might
help bis enforcement.
"Who, me?" he asked. "No.
Heavens no!"
But Rowe admitted that if
he were my age, he probably
would try something.
Rowe Is actually one of the
most benevolent men I have
ever met. I think be Is mis
informed, naive and I dis
agree with what he is doing,
but I like him.
As it turned out, the Drug
Control Division includes four
whole agents, which is prob
ably about what the "prob
lem" deserves.
Rowe said he figures our
state has about 18 bona fide
addicts. Which gives us one
agent for every four and-a-half
addicts.
As for the campus situation,
Rowe said he uses his oft-discussed
plainclothesmen not
with the thought of persecut
ing students, but for making
"buys" in quantity as evi
dence against bigger-t lme
pushers.
The Agency, as one might
expect, is more concerned
with the suppliers than with
scattered student drug users.
All of which leads me to the
conclusion that there is little
need for paranoia.
Consider one of Lincoln's
major "busts" the five non
students caught with grass
last December or so.
The police stopped at their
house after they had received
some sort of routine call. But
the men panicked and tossed
their stuff-brightly-out a win
dow, almost hitting the police
man stationed at the side of
the house as a mere observer.
But a few final words of
caution. The penalties for sim
ple possession of marijuana
are still severe.
Pat Lilly, the University
coed who allegedly left her
stuff laying aronnd her dorm
room could still go to prison
for her oversight. (And, while
that sort of thing makes for
good Paul Newman flicks, it's
not really necessary for total
education.)
Secondly, there is no need
to discuss grass trips over cof
fee in places like the Union
cafeteria. Those who smoke
won't be impressed, and those
who don't won't understand
anyway.
Be especially careful when
dealing with any sort of sup
plierthat's where the heat is.
Finally, If by some extreme
mischance you are caught,
don't say anything to anyone
until you have legal counsel.
All of those neat new Su
preme Court decisions don't
seem to matter much to Ne
braska police officials hot on
a good drag conviction.
They'll nail you to the wall
any way they can.
All in all, if you can't stand
the heat, stay out of the kitch
en. You will receive little sym
pathy from citizens of the
state once you are caught.
But, I suspect, the heat may
not be as intense as some peo
ple would like us to believe.
Happy trails. . .
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Rest iii peace . . . but
It is curious, and melan
choly, that hours after the
death of the Reverend Mar
tin Luther King, and one-hundred
thousand words after the
doleful announcement of his
murder, not a single commen
tator on radio or on television
has mentioned what one
would suppose is a critical
datum, namely that Mr. King
was an ordained minister in
the Christian faith, and that
those who believe that the
ministry is other than merely
symbolic servitude to God,
must hope, and pray that he
is today happier than he was
yesterday, united with his
Maker, with the angels and
the saints, with the prophets
whose words of inspiration he
quoted with such telling ef
fect in his hot pursuit of a
secular milleniarism.
No, it is the secular aspects
of his death that obsess us;
very well then, let us in his
memory make a few observa
tions: 1. Whatever his virtues, and
whatever his faults, he did not
deserve assassination. There
are the special few one
thinks of Joan of Arc whose
career dictates, as a matter
of theatrical necessity, a vio
lent end, early in life. Dr.
King was not of that cast. His
virtues were considerable,
most notably his extraordi
nary capacity to inspire. But
although the dreera he had
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seemed to many Americans,
particularly the black mili
tants, but not excluding many
orthodox liberals, less and
less useful (freedom now, in
the sense he understood it,
was a dream, mischievously
deceptive), it simply wasn't
ever required that, in order
to reify that vision, he should
. surrender his own life.
In that sense his martyrdom
was simply not useful. Be
cause it is plainly impossible
that, on account of his death,
things are going to change.
The martyrdom he seemed
sometimes almost to be seek
ing may commend him to his
tory and to God, but not like
ly to Scarsdale, New York:
which has never credited the
charge that the white commu
nity of America conspires to
insure the wretchedness of
the brothers of Martin Luther
King.
2. And concerning his weak
nesses, it would take a luna
tic (his murderer has not at
this point been apprehended,
but he is sure to be one) to
reason that Dr. King's faults
justified a private assassina
tion. The theory to which most
of us subscribe is that there
is no vice so hideous as to
justify private murder.
Even so, we tend emotional
ly to waive that categorical
imperative every now and
then. If someone had shot
down Adolf Eichmann in a
motel, the chances are tha4
our deploring of the assassin's
means would have been rit
ualistic. The only people who
were genuinely annoyed by
Jack Ruby's assassination oi
Lee Harvey Oswdd were
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Dr. King's faults, and they
most surely existed, were far
from the category of the
faults of those whose assas
sination is more or less tol
erated, as we all of us more
or less tolerated the assassi
nation of George Lincoln
Rockwell. Those faults were
a terribly mistaken judgment
above all.
A year ago he accused the
United States of committing
crimes equal in horror to
those committed by the Nazis
in Germany. One could only
J asp at the profanation. Ten
ays ago in bis penultimate
speec, delivered at the Wash
ington Cathedral, he accused
the United States of waging
a war as indefensible as any
war committed during the
20th century.
Several years ago, on the
way back from Stockholm
where he received the Nobel
Peace Prize, he conspicuous
ly declined to criticize the
Gbenye movement in the
North Congo, which was even
then engaged in slaughtering,
as brutally as Dr. King was
slaughtered, his brothers in
Christ But for such trans
gressions in logic and in judg
ment, one does not receive
the death sentence.
Al Spangler
The sad demise
of non-violence
"The policy of the Federal Government is to
play Russian roulette with riots; it is prepared
to gamble with another summer of disaster. Des
pite two consecutive summers of violence, not a
single basic cause of riots has been corrected.
All of the misery that stoked the flames of
rage and rebellion remains undiminished. With un
employment, intolerable housing and discrimina
tory education a scourge in Negro ghettos, Con
gress and the Administration still tinker with triv
ial, halfhearted measures." Thus spoke Dr. Mar
tin Luther King, Jr.
Presently, the Congress is tinkering with anoth
er trivial measure, a new Civil Rights Bill. One
of our own Congressmen, Dave Martin, has been
an opponent of this bill. It is because of people
like Martin that civil rights bills are "trivial, half
hearted measures."
The bin would ban discrimination in housing
in three stages, covering the sale or rental of 80
of the nations homes and apartments by 1970.
The bill would also, as the UPI put it, "crack
down on rioting." One can only guess why a civil
rights bill contains such a provision.
The bill won't affect most of the people in the
ghettos. They can't afford to move out into the
suburbs anyway. Yet the press is making a very
big deal out of the effect Dr. King's death will
have on the passage of this measure.
It was thought to be, in some sense, tragic
that the news of bis death was followed quickly
by violence in the ghettos. Yet there has always
been violence in the ghetto of a less visible na
ture which most of White America doesn't see or
care about.
Dr. King's death has been said to mark the
end of non-violent protest. This is bemoaned as
tragic. Yet how many of those who so solemnly
mourn his passing could say with him, "I'm com
mitted to non-violence absolutely. I'm not going t
kill anybody, whether it's in Vietnam or here." Think
about that statement this summer, when you read
that some black "rioter" has been shot for steal
ing a six-pack.
The midnight raid
Washington (CPS) Five Federal Narcotics
agents recently roused students out of bed at 5:30
a.m. in a marijuana raid at American University.
The agents said they arrested seven students,
all allegedly dealers in marijuana. But university
officials gave various other estimates of the num
ber of arrests which ran as high as 17. The cam
pus newspaper, the Eagle, said most campus
sources put the number at 13.
The raid had full co-operation of University
officials. Graduate student counselors who live in
the dorms "were all in coats and fles,M according
to one student, who added that "they got all the
dealers in the dorm." The raid involved three
floors in one of American's three men's dormi
tories. University President Hurst Anderson issued a
statement dated March 21, that the university be
lieves "it to be our responsibility to co-operate
with federal authorities in the enforcement of
drug control laws and to take steps to see that
the campus environment is free from the effects
of law violation in this area."
University officials said the arrested students
may also face disciplinary action from the Uni
verslty. Many students at American believe the raid
was planned on March 21, when the statement
was drawn np but not released, but was held off
nntil jnst before Easter Vacation, which begins
Saturday.
U.S. Narcotics Commissioner Harry Giordana.
who announced the arrests, said they were made
after two months of undercover investigation with
the full co-operation of university officials.
, Because many students had already left for va
cation and were expected to leave before the hour
of the raid, no action by students is expected in
response to the raid. The Eagle, in au editorial,
toe law "P ' SiDCe "the students brok
This is the second such pre-dawn raid this
year. An earlier raid at the State University of
New York at Stony Brook resulted in 34 arrests
on marijuana charges.
