The Doily Nebraskan
Thursday, April 25, 1968
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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; A growing crowd
around SDS
It is not without a certain twinge of irony that
many of the New Left politicos are discovering that
their anti-war acitivity for the past few years has
resulted in the McCarthy and Kennedy campaigns
of this election season.
Strange
Day
Carl Oglesby, the former SDS president who
Is currently the intellectual leader of the New
Left, believes that SDS and other radical groups
Z must change their political focus in order to avoid
becoming the unwitting victims of their own
T myopia.
I In his opinion, SDS ought to have seen that the
McCarthy-Kennedy phenomenon would occur, and
" that SDS now stands the chance of losing Its mem-
1 bcrship and energy to the liberal political camp.
'. Two or three years ago it was not politically
safe to oppose our war in Vietnam. Today it is a
political asset to do so. Two or three years ago,
" as their voting records show, McCarthy and Ken-
nedy played it safe. Today, despite all the talk of
political heroism, things haven't changed very
' much.
After all, It is not difficult to oppose ancre,
and nearly nay foreign policy proposals sound
sensible in the light of recent history. The New
. Liberalism has, however, let the air out of the
New Left's balloon, even if we won't hear Gene
' and Bobby talk about American imperialism
abroad.
The important question for the New Left Is
what they will say about the "discovery" of t h e
President's Commission on Civil Disorders that
Is, that the root of this countrys racial trouble is
Z none other than white racism.
The embarrassingly predictable predictions of
' the Commission are politically volatile, and a
wrong move by either Kennedy or McCarthy be-
2 tween now and the time of the Democratic Nation-
al Convention will make the summer even hotter
: for them than it will be for the rest of us.
The white (free and 21-years-or-older) elector
... ate in this country does not like being called
; "racist" by anyone, let alone by those who seek
" their support at the polls.
- A vacuum is being created by the disparity
between what needs to be said and done about our
- racial troubles, and what it is safe to say and do
.about them. Enter: the New Left.
At the moment, unfortunately, the New Left is
rTTiir political Hamlet, standing alone at stage left,
rourmering "What to do? What to do?" Oglesby,
"and others are urging SDS to re-enter the fray
wijth a new face put on, and with a new challenge
te-ihe liberal Democrats.
.TIT.. The time has come indeed, is long overdue
" -te.face the realities so long pointed out by their
IlffiSfck brothers and sisters.
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E Campus Opinion
.DEAR EDITOR:
At last the IndeDendents and Greeks on this
Tampus are actively trying to co-exist, and making
Ziiupressive accomplishments. An excellent case in
-"joint is this up-coming weekend. Though this period
involves both Spring Weekend and Greek Week, the
-respective committees have planned their activities
"laa events so as not to interfere with the other.
Btitli have urged active participation of their mem
lEers in BOTH events. It is the committees' hope
- that the student groups they represent will continue
Zjheir spirit of planning and "make the scene" both
"wenings. At last, long time adversaries are work
Zuhg together, let us hope it continues and that their
-"members follow their groups responsible leader
rnip. Remember, whether Independent or Greek
together we make up the student body. And to
gether we must unite to insure ours, the student's,
-position.
. Student body member.
Pear Editor:
WeU, they almost had me worried. All those ter
"""ribly liberal speakers, like Harold Stassen, per-
mitted on campus.
C The actuality of Nebraska students participa
ting in a national subversive movement such as
Choice '68.
Things were looking pink for the old campL
But Nebraska-brand sanity has once again pre
vailed. Against the suggestion (horror of horrors!)
that Nebraska become the first state university
to adopt a general pass-fail grading system the
Jfaculty Senate rose nobly to the occasion and
7dodged (about 2.5 worth).
Afterall, having a pass-fail system definitely
would be a trend movement. Might even qualify Ne-
"brjiska as a slightly progressive university. And
-everyone knows that NU only follows trends
about 25 years later.
. Sleep peacefully students your Faculty Sen
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I Presidential hopefuls, state positions
Editor's Note: The following
is a summary of the positions
of the four major Presldcn-
Humphrey
Higher Education
Ability, not privilege, must
determine the amount of edu
cation young people receive
. . . Must recognize that op
portunity for higher education
is dependent on such pro
grams as Head Start, Follow
Through, and Upward Bound,
and cannot rest solely upon
financial aid to college age
students. A person's college
education begins at birth and
we must strive for an edu
cational system which recog
nizes ability and encourages
motivation from early child
hood. On Youth
We need the, constructive
help of university students
and faculty alike in meeting
the challenges to our society.
We need their help on the
high, hard road for freedom,
for progress, for social jus
tice, here, at home and
throughout the world.
Selective Service
Favors adoption of Fair
and Impartial Random
(FAIR) system to determine
order in which young men
are called. (System would call
youngest first. )
Lower Voting Age
Favors lowering voting age
to 18 . . . has been a long time
advocate . . . believes it would
establish voting practice more
firmly and broaden the lev
el of citizen participation in
our political system.
Kennedy
Higher Education
Favors expansion and im
provement of existing govern
ment loan programs, making
more money on easier terms
available to both undergrad
uate and grduate students.
Favors Loan programs that
make money available large
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Joseph Alsop
Saigon A single, simple
fact reveals the degree of
sincerity of Hanoi's response
to President Johnson's latest
and boldest try for peace.
The fact is that the Hanoi
war-leaders are now making
the biggest, most taxing and
costly reinforcement effort
that has ever been attempted
in the whole course of this
war.
The effort began toward the
first of March, undoubtedly
as Hanoi's initial response to
the dire losses suffered by
all enemy units in the Tet of
tial candidates on issues of
special Interest to students
the draft, lowering the vot-
ly without reference to the in
stitution the student chooses.
Favors exploration of n e w
means of repayment per
haps assessing a small, fixed
percentage of income over
a number of years instead of
imposing an absolute short
term obligation.
On Youth
The gap between the gen
erations will never be com
pletely closed. But it must be
spanned. For the bridge
across the generations is es
sential to the nation in t h e
present and it is the bridge
to our own future and thus
in a central sense, to the very
meaning of our own lives.
Every generation has its
central concern, whether to
end war, erase racial injus
tice, or improve the condition
of the working man. Today's
young people appear to have
chosen for their concern the
dignity of the individual hu
man being.
Selective Service
Favors drastic reforms in
our draft system, which is
inequitable in many respects,
and believes it is of great
importance that its defects be
remedied. Favors study of
various proposals for a ran
dom selection process and
prompt enactment of most
workable one.
Favors drafting of youngest
men first, so they can plan
their education and careers
with more certainty.
Favors experimentation
with a system of alternative
service in peace time to give
all young men an opportun
ity to serve the varied needs
of their country at home and
abroad. Favors rescinding ac
tion of Congress reversing the
Seeger decision, in order to
protest people whose consci
fensive. Unprecedent
ed truck sightings and other
indicators reveal that the ef
fort continues, full speed, and
is even being augmented.
Hence, it is clear that this
huge movement of military
manpower to the south must
now be regarded, in addition,
as responsive to the Presi
dent's initiative for peace.
The already ascertained
troop movement is at least
on the level of 35,000 men,
and it is expected to reach
the eventual level of 45,000
ing age, higher education, and
the role of youth in society.
These positions were given in
entious objection is not based
on traditional religious
grounds.
Lower Voting Age
Co-sponsored a Congression
al resolution calling for a Con
stitutional amendment to low
er voting age to 18. Believes
it is imperative that young
people be given both the
opportunity and responsibility
of having a voice in the selec
tion of public officials.
McCarthy
Higher Education
Has long been an advocat
of federal aid to education at
all levels.
Favors giving every child a
good, sound basic education
and every adult either a
skilled trade or an advanced
degree.
Voted for College Housing
Act, National Defense Educa
tion Act, Higher Education
Facilities Act, and Elemen
tary and Secondary Educa
tion Act.
On Youth
This is the time when the
country is looking ot its schol
ars and students for advice
and counsel more than ever
before in order to have a bet
ter understanding of the prob
lems of poverty, urban
change, the complexities of
our economic system, and al
so for historical judgment
with reference to Vietnam
and beyond. It is important
that young people be involved
because we are really mak
ing a projection of America
into the future and the young
people have a greater stake
in that future.
The 1968 campaign, I antici
pate, will be one.
Selective Service
Favors elimination of de
ferments and institution of
random selection system. Fa
vors conscientious objection
men or even more. In addi
tion to this movement of re
placements reinforcements
to fill gaps in the ranks far
ther south, it is probabl that
Hanoi will move down two
additional division-equivalents .
of the North Vietnamese
home army to bring pressure
on the demilitarized zone.
There are several things to
be said about this. To begin
with, anyone who still cherish
es illusions about this being
a "civil war" in South Viet
nam is an even bigger fool
response to a National Stu-
dent Association query.
to particular wars with objec-
tors serving in some form of
alternative service or in the
military reserves.
Favors permitting consci-
entious objection on rational
as well as religious grounds.
Opposes present autonomy
of local boards, would favor
more national standards.
Favors restoring right of a
person appealing a classifica-
tion to a personal appearance
at levels higher than the lo-
cal board. Also favors giving
appellant the right to counsel
of his own choosing.
Opposes Hershey's memor-
andum of October, 1967
Lower Voting Age
Favors a Constitutional
amendment to lower the vot-
ing age to 18 . . . believes
young people should have
more of a voice in determining
the policies that will af-
feet their future.
Nixon
Higher Education
No statement provided.
On Youth
Politics, as usual, is not
enough for America today.
Diplomacy, as usual, is not
enough for the world today.
We need new leadersip. We
need new ideas, leadership
and ideas that come from
your generation. America
needs the vision, the dissent,
the constructive action that
this generation can promise
for it in the years ahead.
Selective Service
Favors abolition of t h e
draft and reliance on a volun-
teer army after the Vietnam
war.
Lower Voting Age
Favors lowering voting age
to 18 . . . has always been in
favor of this proposition not
because young people are old
enough to fight but because
they are smart enough to vote.
than he was when that pecu
liar thesis was first pro
pounded. The true guerrillas in the
hamlets and districts are still,
in the main, southerners,
where they still exist for in
three-quarters of the country
both village and district guer
rillas are being militarily
cannibalized on a large scale
to provide extra replacements
for the big units. In one-quarter
of the country, the Delta,
the .big units are also com
posed of southerners.
First Hurrah
Editor's Note: The following article was sub
mitted by Peter It. Battling, Ph.D. Candidate in the
Department of Political Science.
Room 332 of the University of Nebraska's Stu
dent Union doesn't offer much in the way of aesthetic
beauty: bland walls and functional furniture. Tues
day night, however, it featured expertise all out of
proportion to its surroundings.
Three advance men from the national cam
paign staff of Richard Nixon were occupying the
premises and spewing forth pearls of wisdom on
what they referred to as "The Great Experiment:"
utilitzation of rally techniques heretofore untried in
presidential campaigns.
John Niedecker, a drama instructor set the
stage for future performers with a sell so soft you
could hear it purr. He credited Richard Nixon's
decision not to demand a recount when fraud was
discovered in the counting of ballots in the 1960 elec
tion to a desire to "preserve the Presidency," to
insure that the nation had a President during the
perilous decade of the 60's. A recount would have
left a Presidential vacuum for at least six
months according to Mr. Niedecker.
He also attributed Gen. Eisenhower's failure to
campaign for Nixon as a result of Nlxon'i honor,
ing of Mrs. Eisenhower's plea not to ask him as
Tie was too sick, and his sickness should not be
ventilated before the country.
Following Mr. Niedecker's portrayal of Richard
Nixon as a man who places the Presidency above
petty partisan politics, comes Boyd Gibbons, mas
ter jouneyman of the campaign rally, who ex
plained that "television is the media" and, con
sequently, everything must be done "for the
Camera."
After paraphrasing a quote from Plato (which
allows Mr. Niedecker time to find a seat in the au
dience), Mr. Gibbons begins to intimately dissect
the living parts of a campaign rally.
An ordinarily mundane act like a balloon drop
becomes an amazingly intricate procedure if prop
erly executed. Teams must be organized, air com.
pressors requisitioned to fill balloons that "fall"
and helium tanks to satiate balloons that "rise,"
tying methods structured, etc.
Producing a map of Pershing Auditorium (scene
of Nixon's Lincoln appearance), Gibbons indicated
how the seating arrangment permitted the utiliza
tion of card and cape sections.
Indicating that Nebraska was to be a test
market for new rally techniques, Gibbons said that
only a shortage of personnel and a lack of human
imagination prevented the employment of such de
vices as slat signs featuring Nixon's name in tan
dem, aerial mobiles, and massive verbal support
from a multitude of glee clubs and bands.
After Gibbons terminated his remarks, Mr. Ni
decker again took the floor to give a few examples
of his pragmatic experience as a political practi
tioner. Stating that a campaign worker had to be a
bit of a "con artist" to achieve desired results, he
listed one of the most effective techniques, among
several, ever employed to communicate with vot
ers as the plastering of mirrors in "public build
ings." If Frank Skeffington is dead, his subordinates
still live. If Nixon's not the one, his lieutenants
certainly don't know it. If campaigns as seen
through the mass media are all movement and
color, one wonders if he isn't missing something
with only fleeting glances at the likes of such po
litical activists as Niedecker and Gibbons.
Student protest
forces wage
hike
Durham, N.C. (CPS) A week-long student
protest at Duke University has brought an increase
in the minimum wage for non-academic employees.
The university administration has agreed to in
crease the minimum wage from $1.15 an hour to
$1.60 an hour by July 1, 1969, with an intermediate
increase on July 1 of this year. Previously, the in
crease to $1.60 was not to have taken effect until
1971, when it would have been required by federal
law.
The administration has also agreed to set np
a commission to consider recognition of a collective
bargaining unit for the university employees. It is
still unclear whether the commission will include
only administrators or whether representatives of
the students, faculty, and the workers will also be
included. The students have given the administra
unit 10 t0 make decision on the bargaining
The protest began April 5, when 300 students
went to the home of Duke President Douglas Knight
They spent two nights in his house, then moved
their protest to one of the campus quads where they
stayed until April 10, the number of demonstrators
rising to about 1,000. 1
On April 10 Wright Tisdale, chairman of the
Duke board of trustess, who had taken over the
negotiations after Knight went into the hospital on
doctor s orders, spoke to the students and agreed
to meet their minimum wage demand. He also
agreed to consider the collective bargaining unit
me students than rose and sang "We Shall
Overcome " then went to the school auditorium to
consider Tisdale's proposals. They debated for twS
days whether to suspend the protest or take evl!
more militant action. The students and faculty f
ally agreed to the proposals, provided students
faculty, administration and labor would be repre!
sented on commission and that a decision would be
handed down within ten days.
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