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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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"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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
