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resolution Facu reconsi lty 0 Tf won t der rr"i v , -i 1 - xi . : I RAISED HANDS OF FACULTY MEMBERS ... defeat motion to reconsider grading change at faculty senate meeting Thursday. Friday, April 26, 1968 W. f" ,y 1 n.iiilniiSn.i.f m i 1 1 I II i JfX : : ;r.cs.j. yri V 4- 2 L 1 T f ! 1 y r V , by Du Udely Lone coed crosses 14th Street, which has been closed to all through auto mobile traffic. r,s lit iWfflHmumiiiitmiRffiMHiiimiummiii mimnmnniumiimtuHBiBiuuinmimmiiHimmiraiuuuiuiiuuiiuuuuii On Campus Today A rerpntinn win be held in hon or of Granville "Mac" McKeen, who has been a University and Union employee for 40 years, at the Union on Friday from 24 p.m. The Cross Winds Coffeehouse at 1233 "F" Street will be open Fri day evening from 8-12 p.m. a -b Pat Paulsen and the Sandpipers will appear at the Greek Week '68 Concert at 8 p.m. Friday in Persh ing Auditorium. "A Patch of Blue" with Sidney Poiter will be shown at the Union on Friday at 7 & 9 p.m. and on Sunday at 7:30 p.m. Admission is &0 cents and I.D. Hillel Sabbath Services will be held Friday at the Nebras ka School of Religion at 4:43 p.m. o dp r ill McCaslin: Greeks must - by Kent Cockson Senior Staff Writer Members who feel their fraterni ties should desegregate and who are in houses that refuse to de segregate should quit their houses, Father John McCaslin told mem bers of a University fraternity Wednesday night. McCaslin, pastor of Holy Fam ily Church in Omaha, is attempt ing to organize the surrounding, predominantly Negro community. He talked to an audience of about 30 at Beta Theta Pi fraternity and told them what they could do to urge integration. "Your fraternities and sorori ties are segregated," he said, "and that's racism. If you can bring Negroes off the street to play football with you, you can ask them to join your fraternity or sorority. You should let them know that they are welcome." McCaslin, who addressed him self mainly to tie situation in Omaha, said that the cause of rac ism is mostly ignorance because the whites have segregated the Ne groes and both groups have grown up ignorant of each other. What the white man knows about the Negro is what he reads in the newspaper, and when one Negro or a small group creates a dis turbance, the white man says, "They're at it again." No physical hazing IFC adopts education by Andy Cunningham Junior Staff Writer The Interfraternity Council (IFC) has adopted a pledge education contract through which signatory houses will agree not to use physical haz ing and will guarantee their pledges quiet hours and unin terrupted study time five nights a week. Included along with a para graph definition of physical hazing is a clause which will permit members of the IFC Executive or Pledge Educa tion Committee to visit a house at any time and to question its pledges about As a part of the A.S.R.A. H.S.S. Spring Weekend, H.S.S. will present the melodrama, "Pure as the Driven Snow, or the Working Girl's Secref' in the Commons building of the H.S.S. complex on Saturday at 6 p.m. and on Sun day at 2:30 p.m. -k ft Abel-Sandoz will also sponsor a folk-jazz concert Sunday evening on the Sandoz lawn. The concert will include "The Three Day Ry ders," "Candi Wise Quartet," and various groups and individuals. S!tituiniiiKutiimiuuiiaiiaummiiiiinmnmninntt!inti I Nebraska returns to Day- I light Savings Time Sunday I at 2 a.m. This is the state's second e season. Clocks should be I moved forward one hour. g!itiiiii!iiiufmmtiiim!iimiiiiiinminiuiiiimiimuimii:a J 1J ?:1t :$ . .WW"' .v : 1 photo by Dan Ladely The Daily "Until the stereotype is bumped off, there will continue to be rac ial problems. And the way to bump it is for the whites to get acquainted with the Negro," he said. McCaslin added that those in the ghetto are so segregated that their confidence in the outside world is almost nil. "In a given group of 100 kids at Fontenelle Home, maybe 20 of that 100 have ever been in down town Omaha. The whole horizon, vision and expansion of their view is limited," he explained. Why do these conditions exist? Quoting a friend from Lincoln, McCaslin said the Negro feels that the white man "cannot break both my legs and then give me hell for limping." "We have been breaking the legs of the Negro for 350 years, and we cannot expect him to be responsible. It's a cycle of dehu manization. and we have to break the cycle," he said. McCaslin said that if the white people do not accept this responsi bility, then our cities are going to be burned to the ground. He added that riots do not solve anything, but that riots have been the only things that have evoked a re sponse from the United States. The middle-aged Catholic priest, greying a little bit and speaking pledge a contract their pledgeship. Violation of the contract would prevent a fraternity chapter from displaying an IFC certificate endorsing its pledgeship as well as prevent ing the house from renewing its contract. Six main points IFC President Sid Loge mann outlined each of the six main points and the contract breaking clause on the p r o posed contract at the IFC meeting Wednesday. "I think the contract is a very positive statement, rath er than a negative one, which proves that we mean what we have said in the past," Loge mann said. Commenting on the con tract's definition of physical hazing, Logemann declared that it constituted the best definition the IFC Executive had been able to find. Hazing clause Logemann also explained that the inclusion of all forms of calisthenics in the hazing definition was necessary be cause of the often indistinct separation line between calis thenics and physical hazing. "The c o n t r a c t-breaking clause is mandatory if the document is to mean any thing," Logemann stated. During discussion of the motion for adoption, Loge mann explained that the study clause and the anti-hazing clause are o p e n to common sense interpretation. by Jim Evinger Senior Staff Writer Faculty Senate members voted Thursday against reconsidering a resolution passed shortly before spring vacation which changed the University grading system from the 4.0 basis to include "plus" grades with each letter grade. The original resolution introduc ing the change will go into , effect for grades given in courses this semester. Chancellor Clifford Har din, presiding chairman of the meeting, said the motion to recon sider was voted down in approxi mately a 130 against to a 120 for vote. The Senate did pass a resolution introduced by Paul Byerly, facul ty adviser to ASUN, on behalf of Craig Dreeszen, ASUN president. The resolution instructs the Sen ate Committee on Committees to establish a permanent student-faculty committee to undertake a continuing evaluation of the grad ing system and to recommend any needed changes. ARCHvd APK -Nebraskan- with only a slight Irish tinge on his rhetoric, said that he is all for some kind of guaranteed annual wage for low income groups. "That means that your dads will have to sponsor and support it if it comes into being. If we are re sponsible foi a situation as it ex ists, then we must pay for it," he said. Another solution lies in the strengthening of the character of public offices. McCaslin said that the pure political expedients must go and men of conscience must be elected to discuss gutty, meaty is sues that involve the future of our country. "Of the 42,000 Negroes in Oma ha, 18.000 are voters and if we can organize them, then those running for public office will have to ad dress themselves to this voting block." He added that public officials and the under-privileged alike must organize around issues that mean something and stop worry ing about poor lighting fixtures and holes ui the street. What McCaslin described as a massive voter registration drive has begun on Omaha's North Side. But he said that the Negroes are very paranoid and are having trouble pulling themselves togeth er because they have grown to mistrust each other after being "A ceremonial paddling of the pledge by his pledge fa ther during initiation would not be construed as physical hazing," he said. Monday night no conflict Logemann pointed out that conflicts on Monday nights between study hall and meet ings could not be viewed in the same light as other en croachments on study time. The visiting clause is n o t designed to give IFC police powers. Logemann comment ed. "All houses will be treat ed equally unless IFC re ceives a complaint or a com plaint is released by some one," he said. Only in such a case would IFC representatives visit only one house, according to Loge mann. No further action Violations treated under the contract would not bring any action on the part of IFC be yond the cancellation of t h e contract and the withdrawal of tne certificate, Logemann said. Only a formal complaint, he added, can bring IFC action according to the procedures estab'ished in the by-l3ws. WTith regard to the possibil ity of IFC executives abusing the Visitiner clause, Logemann pointed out that any action taken against a house comes from the IFC as a whole and not solely from the Execu tive. continued on page 3 The special Faculty Senate meeting was called for by a group of faculty who petitioned the body to reconsider its previously pass ed resolution. Only one faculty member voiced an opinion to the motion to recon sider, saying he thought students should be included in the process of grade system changes, but dis agreed that the motion should be rescinded, arguing that the new system had not yet been tested. Byerly read a letter by Drees zen which stated that the "stu dents were surprised and disap pointed to find that a major change in the grading system was made without student consulta tion." - "It should be made clear that the students' objection is one of procedure, not of the substanee of the change," Dreeszen wrote in clarifying student reaction to the change. "Student groups who have been working with educational issues at the University this year could elcome "kicked around generation after generation." His involvement in the North Omaha Ministerial Union has be gun to excite the Negro ministers of that area toward leading the voter registration. "If they will begin to play a role and stop worrying about the other world," McCaslin said, "they will be able to get at the people." He added that unless the Negro knows the worth of his own value and dignity, he will not organize. But once the Negroes are orga nized, they will have power and influence, he said. McCaslin asserted that the peo ple who now hold the power will not relinquish it easily. "The city council will not listen to the poor (Specifically regarding the administration of the poverty programs), and all the Negroes want is some say in their own des tiny. "There has to be the smell and feel of poverty before a real un derstanding can be reached . . . and I don't know if the white mid dle class will ever understand," said Father McCaslin. . He added that there is a cur rent move to get white people to make friends with the Negro, es pecially at Christmas when many whites want to give the Negro families welfare baskets. irifiiiiiuiitiiiiiiiiiifitiiiuifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifiiiiiiifiiu::ititifiniiuiiitiiiiiiiiuiiiiuiuimiiiiiinuiMfiifiuiiiir This is Benjamin X x i if vv-1 i i ' ' . I ct ... , ,mf-. , He's icorried about Gene j McCarthys future Dustin Hoffman, star of "The Graduate", will appear at a canvassing kickoff Sunday at 7:30 in the Nebraska Union sponsored by Students for McCarthy. Hoffman is scheduled to show a film, "All the Way to Jerusalem," describing student involvement in Sen, Mc- Carthy's campaign in the recent Wisconsin presidential 1 primary. He will answer questions and discuss the film, produced I by the husband and wife team that produced the movie 1 "David and Lisa." lujuumuiuiiwuuuuiii have made a significant contribu tion in the preparation of the pro posal," Dreeszen wrote. The newly elected student body president said after the meeting the action taken by Senate was at least significant in that the group was responding to the students. He said efforts by students would be channeled through the newly-established committee. He did not know when its members would be selected. He also doubted that the committee could produce any recommendations in time for the next Faculty Senate meeting. Royce Knapp, chairman of the investigating committee which recommended the change in the grading system, pointed out after the meeting that of nearly 700 fac ulty who could have come, the de cision on the matter was made by about 250. He also said that not all of the professors present at the meeting took a stand on the motion to reconsider. Vol. 91, No. 101 Negroes We don't say "give," we say "share": first befriend the family and then give them your welfare basket, he said. McCaslin explained how he thought the Negro views Nebras ka law. "If you can sell me a house," he said, "but if you can prohibit my moving into your neighbor hood, then you're calling me a second-class citizen -- and I'm go ing to hate you. "Legislation removes ' this stig ma of being a second-class citizen, and I couldn't care less what you wou' think of me personally, he said. Omaha is a fiercely segregated city. Father McCaslin noted, and it had been so much so that its residents had never been confront ed with the racial prejudice and hatred until George Wallace came to Omaha in March. "The Wallace thing would have stopped there except that stupid cop shot that kid outside a hock shop and no $16 T.V. set is worth a kid's life," he said. The police used mace (a chemi cal to disperse rioting crowds) at the Wallace convention, Father McCaslin added, and then they used cfubs to beat those kids who w ere only trying to get out the back doors into the fresh air.
