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Wednesday, April 24 1968
The Doily Nebraskan
Vol. 91, No. 99
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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
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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
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"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?
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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.
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