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4k 1 0 p I I u 1 UNJVE, APR r 24 1968 Wednesday, April 24 1968 The Doily Nebraskan Vol. 91, No. 99 Irh ecu 5S I 1 7 VV ill Faculty grading by Susie Jenkins Junior Staff Writer A petition started by University Student leaders has forced the con vening of a special Faculty Senate meeting Thursday to discuss the unexpected grading change passed by Faculty Senate ( April 9. ) The meeting was initiated by a group of concerned student lead ers, according to outgoing ASUN President Dick Schulze. Several professors have indica ted, however, that faculty mem bers may also request reconsider ation of the change at the meet ing. Dr. Paul Byerly, student Senate advisor, said he thought the stu dents were very much in line ask ing for inclusion in University pol icy decisions. "Especially with the question of grades, ASUN has been involved in research," he said. The students circulated the pe tition signed by 65 faculty mem bers the week before Spring Va cation. Enough signatures were ob tained to call a special Faculty Senate meeting Thursday, instead of Tuesday as originally requested by the petitioners. The grading scale change was approved following the recommen dations of an ad hoc committee appointed by Chancellor Clifford Hardin. Professors Frank Dudek, Iioyce Knapp and Lyle Young re commended that the University add to its existing 4.0 grade scale, grades of 4.5, 3.5, 2.5 and 1.5. The committee was appointed three Logemann ... 'All fraternities capable of improving pledgeship by Andy Cunningham Junior Staff Writer It is possible for any of the Greek fraternities at the University to im plement a program in accordance with the proposed pledge educa tion contract, according to Sid Log emann, President of the Interfra ternity Council (IFC). The contract, based on one in use at Indiana University, will formal ize and add an enforcement clause to existing Nebraska IFC policy at Nebraska, Logemann said. Discussed by a Committtee of the Whole at the IFC meeting April 3, the contract will be presented in the form of a motion Wednes day evening. Provisions of the contract include a guarantee for three and a half hours of undisturbed study time and quiet hours following dinner five nights a week ; A IV, -r' ', ( -Wl1" t f:f it J . i i XV f ' ft ... Americus Liberator, Valentine rancher and candidate for the Presidency of the United States, takes time from his campaigning to groom his thirty year old white horse, Pard. to reconsider scale change weeks before the recommendation was presented to the Faculty Sen ate. "We found that depending on the college, 3548 per cent of Univer sity freshmen were on scholastic probation this year," Dr. Knapp said in an interview before vaca tion. The committee concluded that such a change would lessen the chances for "C" students to go on scholastic probation. Schulze said in the April 10 Daily Nebraskan that the grading change was "a slap in the face to what ASUN has worked for all year." For the past two years Schulze had led student Senate in a drive to secure definite student rights to be incorporated in University pol icy. In the ASUN 1967 general elec tions students passed the Student Bill of Rights written by the Sen ate Rights committee. In the 1968 elections students voted for and passed the Student Academic Free dom document constructed by the joint student-faculty-administration Academic Freedom committee. The document, whose provisions includ ed the right for students to equi table representation on matters af fecting them, will be voted on by the Faculty Senate. If passed, it will be sent to the Board of Re gents for inclusion in University policy. "Everything we worked for for two years was completely over looked by this one action," Schulze said. Another clause would prohibit all forms of physical hazing, both on and off fraternity premises. In cluded in the definition of physi cal hazing are any calisthentics. There is also a clause requiring the inclusion of history of the Uni versity and the Greek system at Nebraska in addition to chapter lore. The enforcement clause would al low IFC officers to observe a house's pledge education program at any time and also to question its pledges concerning their pledge ship program. Houses accepting the contract would be entitled to display a cer tificate indicating their pledge program is IFC-endorsed. Violations of the contract would prevent its renewal and would bring notification of the nature of the violation to the chapter's na ft n j it- photo by Du Ldelj "I really thought we were ac complishing something, but with this, we have been forced to other action." . April 10, the day after the . Sen ate meeting, Schulze called togeth er about 30 student leaders to dis cuss the role of students , in fur ther action. This group decided to initiate the petition, according to Schulze, which was the first step in organ izing the Thursday Senate meet ing. At this meeting, Dr. Byerly will read the Faculty Senate a letter from Craig Dreeszen, who offici ally succeeds Schulze today as AS UN president. The new ASUN executives- and Student Senate will be inaugurated at 4 p.m., and Dree szen will then ask the new Stu dent Senate to pass a resolution supporting his statement to t h e Faculty Senate. Dreeszen's statement will ask the Faculty Senate to "establish a student-faculty committee to und ertake continuing evaluation of the grading system and to recommend any needed changes." Schulze said he expected any thing to happen at the Faculty Sen ate meeting tomorrow. "We've got to convince the fac ulty that we should be consulted when such decisions are made," he said. "The student body must not be passed over when questions like a grading change so directly affect them," he added. tional headquarters and to its alum ni. "Enforcement is secondary," Logemann said. "We are not going to have regular inspection teams for all houses." Logemann explained that the en forcement clause would be used if IFC has received complaints or would require more effort on the part of some houses than others. Houses opposed to the contract or wanting to be entirely free to formulate their pledge education programs would not have to sign the contract, Logeman said. Americus Liberator: Longest Shot for the White House admires Abe by J. L. Schmidt Night News Editor Valentine, Neb. On Oct. 3, 1910, an Italian immigrant moth er gave birth to her first son in the new world. She named him Amerigo Liberatore. That was in Eureka No. 40, a small coal min ing town eight miles south of Johns town, Pa. Today, that Italian baby has grown up to become Americus Li berator, a resident of Valentine, Neb., and a candidate for the pres idency of the United States. I first saw Liberator in downtown Valentine. He looked just like his pictures, attired in a brown hat, blue denim shirt and pants and tall brown boots. I followed him to his home in his '53 Chevy where we first stopped and looked at his white horse, 30-year-old Pard. Liberator and his wife Peggy and son Tony live in a small, but well cared for stucco home in Valentine. He has done most of the work on the place himself, has even built a stove and chimney. As his wife says, "He can do any thing except make pastry." The filing system of his mater ials he receives at least a let ter a day is two clothesline ropes strung from wall to wall below the ceiling level. He clips all matter to the lines with clothes pins. The walls are covered with pictures of Washington and Lincoln and the Last Supper. " Liberator worked in the coal mines as a youth in Pennsylvania and later headed west and worked as a grubliner, saddle tramp and horsebreaker. He served as a me dic in World War II and has spent the last 38 years in Cherry Coun ty. WTiy does he seek the presidency? r. - jzA VQk '2 iff Lee White, a University a'umnus and present chairman of the Federal Power Commission, addressed the Honors Convocation held Tuesday morning. Honors convocation . . . White asks honor students to exploit interdependence by Jan Parks Senior Staff Writer The high premium that U.S. ci tizens place on privacy and indi vidualism is threatened by our increasingly independent society, Lee C. White said at Tuesday's University Honors Convocation. White, a University alumnus and eral Power Commission, addressed over 1500 parents, students and faculty who paid tribute to out standing University scholars by their attendance at the Fortieth annual Honor's Convocation. "Today's newspapers make it clear how dependent U.S. citizens are on each other," White told the audience. He pointed out that one ramifi cation of this greater interdepen dence is that "individual motiva tion seems discouraged and often repressed." "Individualism, as related to the land, arose on the frontier," White noted, as he contrasted this rugged individualism to today's individu alism which "is more related to the human element." White felt that social welfare pro grams are a product and respon As a boy, Americus read about Abraham Lincoln, a man of inte grity but also a man who would wade into the mud and lift a hog out of trouble. He read and won dered why George Washing ton fought the British, his own an cestry. In 1932 he came West and worked at the Boiling Springs Flats, south of Cody, Neb. He said that here a Catholic priest set him straight on reading the Bible, telling him to let his conscience be his guide. According to Liberator, the mes sage was there ... it all depends on how you interpret it. He says that he became a non-sectarian ra ther than a hypocrite. He defends the religious right of all concerned and feels that the answer to most of our troubles can be found in the Bible or the Constitution. As time wore on he said he be gan to realize that both parties in the United States seemed to say that they had the best program, but the world seemed to remain in a "hell of a mess." He decided to be realistic and give the Amer ican people a choice. "There are a half dozen baskets and the peo ple should be allowed to choose which one they want to put their eggs in," he remarked. He said a perilous position is be ing approached because the sepa ration of religion and politics is being lost. Good administration ta pered off with Teddy Roosevelt ac cording to Libeifitor. He acknowledged the qualifica tions and capabilities of men like Nixon, but he asks, "where have they left their mark, what have they done? What happened to the last of the self-made men?" Lib erator claims that being close to nature has given him the "direct message of God," a necessary in sibility of an increased human ele ment and an interdependent soci ety. "Some people regard social wel fare programs as give away pro grams," White explained, "but this view is false because uneducated human beings are a wasted nation al asset." Exploit interdependence "We should exploit society's in terdependence as successfully as possible," the former advisor to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson advised. "With all of our cylinders fir ing the motors of our nation will be more effective and our nation will run smoother," he predicted. White attributed an increasing tendency to depersonalize the in dividual in society to the growth of the role of beauracracy both governmental and industrial. I have no qualms about a strong centralized government," he said, but there is a heightened need to guard against infringement of per sonal privacy. The magnitude of our population gredient for a self-made man. The Republican ticket carries Li berator's name in the Primary be cause he voted for Goldwater in the last election and he said he must have some political affilia tion to be able to run in the pri mary. He ran as a Republican in the primary for Sheriff of Cherry County in 1966 and then he ran as a non-partisan write-in candi date for the same office. "Much of the Constitution has never been utilized to the fullest," according to Liberator and some of the interpretation is still ahead of its time as was Abraham Lin coln in many of his proposals. As Liberator stated in an arti cle in the Boston Globe, "our cur rent political strife began several administrations ago." Referring to Pres. Johnson he said, "I don't agree with all he's done, but the trouble goes back several admin istrations. It's not of Mr. Johnson's making, and it would be just as hard for me inheriting it." During the interview he paused to read some of his latest mail. A letter from a mother whose daughter was a Smith College grad uate took his fancy. "I like any body with a big nose or lousy hand writing," he said. The question of public debate with the other candidates was rais ed. He felt that he didn't want a debate, because the people know "what they want in their heart." "All you have to do is represent your will he said and besides, I like to take things and sleep on them." One such instance was his criti cism of the recent treatment of LBJ. He felt that the element of fair play had been forgotten and that the incidents he mentioned were ill timed and in bad taste. photo by Jim Shaw can spur individualism by encour aging competition, White added. The existence and success of our competitive system should "whet our apetite for excellence and pro gress," the speaker said. Campus progress Speaking of progress on the Uni versity campus, White noted that, "the University community is now more involved with the real world than it was 25 years ago." White praised the Daily Nebras kan for articles on world affairs especially the in depth report of the racial situation in Omaha. The claim that young people are only interested in security is un true, White stated. Thousands of young people in the Peace Corps indicate a deep strain of idealism in young people, he added. The speaker emphasized the val ue of ambition in converting oppor tunities to realities. "A major task of today's educa tors should be to foster ambition in our young people and create a cli mate condusive to the growth of individualism," White said. Take the Sunday Sermon for ex ample. "Johnson went too church expecting to hear the Gospel of God, and instead look at what he got. That minister could have told him off some other time in soma other place." He also mentioned the luncheon at which Eartha Kitt lashed into Lady Bird. Liberator also referred to his semester of study at Kearney State and said here he realized that education is a shortcut to knowledge. As a former classmate of his in Pennsylvania stated, he was "Not slow to learn, just too devilish to work at it." He did talk briefly about Viet nam and the race situation. His comments on Vietnam as they ap peared in the Boston Globe were, "If I was President there'd be no more messin' around in Vietnam. We'd settle overnight or withdraw. He mentioned that it required only "three and a half years to end the greatest war of our time, and we've been in Vietnam for ten years already." On the question of race, he re lates that he wi.s stopped by a Ne gro when he was in Lincoln at the Statehouse and this fellow ask ed him what his stand was. He said he told him that the black man has to eliminate his own "rene gades" before the white people can be of any help. If you don't you'll have a situation like "cowboys and Indians." He pointed out that the Toscanini and Marconi of his own ancestry made the Italians fam ous not the Al Capone type. He said that the Negro needs more "athletes like Joe Lewis and sci entists like George Washington Car ver." A garden has to be weeded to harvest the crop you planted." he added. A' .- if' I :' v i' S 4 r t i 1 n n 4 ft s-
