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1 The Daily Nebraskon Monday, April 29, J 968 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Commentary Editorials 7, '"5 ,1 Student revolt Columbia style The recent student takeover at Columbia Uni ll'Versity again makes it evident the aftermath of the Berkeley riots have not promoted effective changes for all large universities. The takeover, spearheaded by about 1000 mili tant SDS member's was mainly to protest two uni versity projects.One was the building of a univer sity $11,500,000 gymnasium on prime Harlem recreational park land. The students were also ob jecting to the school's participation in the Institute of Defense Analysis' work to aid the Vietnam War. The protest group accomplished its purpose "(he Columbia's president ordered construction to cease but faculty members Sunday were still decid ing whether to give amnesty to the demonstrators, Who seized five occupied buildings and held three university officials captive. This situation and others similar to the Colum bia take-over which occurred last week point an explosive and dangerous situation which exists on ,:.the majority of large universities. These schools are witnessing a complete break down in communications between administrators and faculty, and students. 1 " Many students were still protesting Sunday and their reason they want the establishment of a permanent faculty-student committee to act on all questions of university policy. As one coed put it ""we wouldn't have to take over buildings to get something done or changed." Columbia students were perfectly justified in demonstrating their disapproval of the university's policies. The means the students used to obtain their demands were drastic, radical and lawless but they also obtained results and quickly. While these methods are effective, this type of situation can not be allowed to exist on college campuses. While these students were protecting the rights of Harlem residents, they in turn were infringing upon the rights of the remaining popula tion of the university whose educational processes were halted because of the outbreaks. Students must have access to other means through which they can bring about quick and effective changes. To alleviate reoccurrences of the Columbia outbreaks the college students must be given an equal voice in the decision making process within the school. Militants might not have restored to such action if they first had had access to a fast moving and powerful faculty-student committee, mittee. Cheryl Tritt Graduate schools hits deferment policy Washington (CPS) The Council of Graduate Schools in the U. S. has issued a statement that "there is in our judgment no justification for gen eral deferment of teaching and research assis tants." The statement, submitted to Selective Service Director Lewis Hershey for use in formulating guidelines for local boards, also said that in some cases a graduate student's "services to the uni versity are essential and in such cases deferments may be appropriate in individual instances. Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently announced that it would ask for occupational de ferments for 1,600 teaching and research assistants, who will not be able to get student deferments after June. The council and several other education as sociations have been discussing this possibility with Ilershey. KniiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiminiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiB Campus Opinion i Dear Editor: Attention! Notice! Important! To whom it may concern (i.e. AU higher educational institutions in the U.S.A.): The University of Nebraska Is hereby complying to the widespread use of establishing the value of a 2.0 minimum to indicate satisfactory academic performance by undergraduate students. However, realizing that our students are at a decided disadvantage due to the inability of our pro fessors to use the 4.0 grade system correctly, we feel that the University of Nebraska students should have a bonus over students of other institutions. Consequently, we are establishing our own 4.S grading system (but we conform to your 2.0 mini mum). Isn't this great! Just think we'll have five pos sible grades above 2.0 (2.5, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5) and only three grades below (1.5, 1.0, 0). The rest of you will have only two grades above (3.0, 4.0) and two grades below (1.0, 0) the magic 2.0. Remember, this is only fair since our faculty mpmbers are not educated towards the Idea of cor rectly implementing a 4.0 grade system. It may seem like our students have too large of an advantage over yonrs. Yet this is not really true. For example, we could have adopted a t.p grade system with a minimum requirement of a 2.0, but being as Intelligent as we are, we could see that this advantage would be too large. In conclusion we want to stress how proud we are over having come up with such a simple solu tion to our problems. Now we won't have any mora students on scholastic probation than you do. Sincerely, Senile Faculty Torn !,arcn Graduate MBA WW, WHAT I ism terns? l VPWT - optuto . THf DOOR! 0i MM we ir AMP GOT rt AT 1H5 POOR. 1 Vim -50O? A6WM5T ne V00R, TERHREP IN. hiMknnarM Syaataal William F. Buckley Linda puts Barnard on the spot It is now a national story that Miss Linda LeClair, 20, of Barnard College, has been living off -campus in New York with Mr. Peter Behr, 22, of Columbia, and that a general story on such prac tices by the New York Times flushed out the cohabitation and put the authorities of Barnard College on the spot. Complications came swift and fast. Dozens upon dozens of Miss LeClair's classmates stepped forward to admit that their living arrangements were similarly loose-minded, and that therefore it would be unfair to penalize Miss Le Clair simply because she hap pened to be the one who was caught, a defensive doctrine which is not exactly airtight. The authorities, visibly dis concerted, demonstrated from the outset a total lack of conviction about the sig nificance of Miss LeClair's sexual habits, and decided in stead to focus on her having lied in the college form she had filled out giving the re quired details on where she was domiciled. All of a sudden, all of Bar nard was rising in indigna tion over the false entry in the form, which is rather like being indignant at Iago be cause he was rude to Desde mona. And then, to make opera bouffe of the whole thing, after meeting solemnly to consider the disposition of the LeClair case, the authori ties voted to deprive her of access to the school cafeteria, which was joke enough for a public unfamiliar with the school cafeteria, but for those who are forced to patronize it, it was apparently some thing in the nature of black humor. Miss LeClair's parents were finally consulted, and it tran spires that they, being of the older generation of course, disapprove their daughter's habits, and have gone so far as to cease to send her mon ey. Mr. Behr, who is a draft evader, is apparently unable to take up the slack; so that perhaps the indomitable Miss LeClair will list herself as an unemployed concubine and apply for relief from the City, which has never been known to deny relief to anyone who applies for it: and that should settle the economic exigen cies of the matter. As for the future, we learn from Miss LeClair that it is her intention to continue to live with Mr. Behr after he, is let out of prison, to which he expects to repair incon sequence of his violation of the statute law if not the mor al law. And thev will then found a colony where couples can live and bear and raise children, without getting married. Miss LeClair, in other words, de sires to abrogate the institu tion of marriage, which is ap parently okay by Barnard, now that she has ceased to lie about it. The commentary on the case in the urban press is of course more interesting than the delinquency of this pathet ic little girl. My favorite is Mr. Max Lerner's, ever on his avant guarde. Surveying the story, he con cludes, "In moral terms, while it says that the sexual code is no longer there, it fails to deal with the question of truthfulness ..." So much for a code that developed over three-thousand years of Ju-daeo-Christian experience shot down, in a subordinate phrase, by Mr. Max Lerner. There isn't anyone around who seems prepared to say to Miss LeClair: Look, it is wrong to do what you have done. Wrong because sexual promiscuity is an assault on an institution that is central to the survival of the hardiest western ideal: the family. In an age in which the play, boy philosophy is taken seri ously, as a windy testimonial to the sovereign right of all human appetites, it isn't sur prising that the LeClairs of this world should multiply like rabbits, whose morals they imitate. But the fact that everybody does it even Liberace, as Noel Coward assures us doesn't make it the right thing to do, and doesn't authorize Mr. Lerner that, like God, the sexual code is dead. Perhaps the sexual code is dead. Question: Should we re gret it? Or should we take the position that that which is "no longer there" is no longer missed? That should be a very good argument for say ing that, in South Africa, one should not bemoan the fact of Apartheid, inasmuch as in tegration is, indisputably, "no longer there." Many observers are telling us here that our country is so thorough-goingly racist that we have no practicable alter native than to turn to Apart heid. Should we, even assum ing they were correct, dimin ish our efforts to make things otherwise? One wonders whether, if Miss LeClair were plopped into the middle of Columbia's Union Theological Seminary a single seminarian would trouble to argue with her, as Christ did the woman at Ja cob's well, that her ways are mistaken? 'We can't stand pat' Paulsen on the presidency by J. L. Schmidt Night News Editor The lady behind the Avis-Rent-A-Car desk at the Lin coln Municipal Airport stared at the extra crowd which had assembled in the lobby last Friday noon. Little did she realize how much the fact that she works for "number two" and the fact that the crowd was there had in common. Number two may be a rath er high number to explain the arrival of Pat Paulsen on a United Airlines non-chartered flight. He isn't even ranked in the polls, but to the airport crowd, be was the number one man of the hour. Paulsen, attired in a gray suit and vest was the last man off of the plane. He was accompanied by a public re lations man and two photo graphers. His immediate comments were that he liked the looks of the city from the air and "after about eight years I would like to settle down here, or in a community like this. You're my kind of peo ple." As the crowd moved in to ward the airport a coed asked if she could trade sev eral University Sweatshirts for some of bis Pat Paulsen Sweatshirts, His immediate quip was, "Do you have that high esteem for the Univer sity?" Answering the questions of the news media he proved that that quick wit he has on T.V. is real. His first clarification was the defini tion of S.T.A.G. party. He says that he is the only mem ber right now but he hopes that his following will mush room. S.T.A.G. stands for Straight Talking American Government. When asked about conven tions and primaries he com mented that both are pretty much "Mickey Mouse." I don't want anything to do with hamburgers and all that." I just want to present myself as being "by the peo ple, for the people and in spite of the people." It was reported that he re ceived a write in vote in the Pennsylvania Primary to which he replied, "That's a lie, I got two in Erie and one in Allentown that I know of for sure." For a running mate he said he'd like "Somebody like Jim Ryun or someone like that." His comments on oth er candidates were varied. He said "They're all oppo nents to me." According to Paulsen "Ron ald Reagan is a known hetero sexual," "Bobby Kennedy is too indecisive," and "Herbert Humphrey should be suspect because he has been calling me Paulsen lately." "I do agree with Humphrey on his grass roots statements, he should be sent back to pas ture." When questioned about George Murphy he said, "I like the way he moves." He basically doesn't feel that en tertainers should be in show business. Asked about the Smothers Brothers he stated. 'If I become President I'll drop them like a hot potato." His views on the draft were summed up when he said, "I believe that we should draft according to head size. The small heads go to the military and the fatheads go to Government." On the question of race he said, "I think we should send the Negro back to Africa, the whites back to Europe, and then start all over again." In closing he urged all of the people to "go to the polls, even if they vote for the wrong people." The disgrace of Vienamesc hospitals Saigon (CPS) At the pro vincial hospital at Quang Ngai, there are two and some times three patients per bed. The overflow is on mats on the floor. And there are stor ies that frequently babies are put two to an incubator. It is a horribly depressing place. Even more shocking than the filth and the lack of light and ventilation is the little at tention which patients re ceive. The nurses do not re port for work on Sundays, so there was no attention at all on Sundays. Sometimes a nurse would be found knitting, a dead patient within earshot. On investigation it was found the patient had gone Into con vulsions, but the nurse con tinued knitting, never sum njonlng a doctor. The Quang Ngai hospital was typical. I was told. Vietnamese hospitals do not provide food service, so the patients must bring someone to cook for them. The fami lies of the patients camp out on the lawn, cooking on char coal braziers. AH the many, many little children run around, sometimes outside, but freqwntly In the wards, bring chaos to the operation. Because there are only 250 Vietnamese doctors for a population of 17 million, care U bound to be lacking. But in the Mekong Delta, for some as-yet-uncxplained reason, the situation is some what better. The hospitals are cleaner, better equiped, and more efficiently run. They frequently have enough beds. In Ben Tre, although there were 3,000 refugees milling around the hospital grounds, a dedicated MILPHAP (Mili tary Physicians Hospital As sistance Program) team had imposed enough discipline to keep the hospital functioning. In response to threatened epi demies the team had admin istered 18,000 c h o 1 e r a and plague vaccinations. A Korean medical team. In cluding thrpe doctors, was as sisting the hospital's five Vietnamese doctors a n d the MILPHAP team In caring for the 350-hed civilian hospital. I was (old the hospital was receiving several major w Mr Inflicted surgery cases a day. The My Tho hospital was overcrowded, but less so than the one in Quang Ngai. There were 650 patients and 450 beds. Admissions were run ning 65 a day, frequently ex ceeding 100 a day, over hall war-inflicted. A Filipino team was contributing four doctors to the staff. It is generally considered that civilians are bearing the brunt of the war's casualties. The My Tho hospital treated 1,300 war -inflicted injures during the Tet offensive. In Ben Tre, one of the sad results of the offensive was the withdrawal of an Iranian medical team of eight nurses, two surgeons, and a general practitioner. The team felt its security could no longer be guaranteed. Andy Corrigan Thirty cents worth of love Recent campus history has provided me with another excuse to compose a column much to the chagrin and despair of some. However, I remain undaunted in my noble fight for Sanity Supreme to reign on campii (the sounds of wretching in the background are now silenced by the blare of trum pets as I proceed with my quiotix quest) ... On to the ridiculous. While glancing through a newspaper this week end I discovered that I was part of a nationwide protest almost Fellow Friday Class-cutters also share this distinction almost Friday, April 26, was National Student Walk Out Day. College and University students throughout the nation designated this date to jointly protest the Viet Nam War. The procedure generally followed by the many participating schools included rallies, marches, discussion groups and a boycott of classes. Unfortunately I didn't nave the foresight to en. gage in a heated discussion about the war last Friday. In fact I didn't even mention the sub ject to anyone. However, if any of you other Fri day Class Cutters did happen to mention Viet Nam during the day I supuse yon could consider your selves part of the protest by default Besides, it would be a beautiful excuse for missing that poli sci class. The University of Nebraska is now on a 4 $ grade system. The University's AWS is terming itself liberal? That's the word. Did you know that women stu detns can now have Lincoln overnights on 2 a.m. evenings and that freshman and sophomores might be given unlimited overnights with parental permis sion of course. However our in-residents Morality Legislators are having a problem over allowing first semes ter freshman unlimited over-nights. And rightly so. After all parents of freshmen don't know if their daughters can handle these big things. After reviewing some of the action on other cam puses it seems hard to understand our AWS. While we're being "liberal" others seem to be radicaL Example: the University of Iowa will have sopho more and second semester freshman keys next year and Illinois State has abolished women's hours. Of course the best example is that of Stanford University they abolished AWS. But then Nebras ka always will be twenty years behind . . . In my preface to this week's calumn I stated that my purpose was to highlight points of recent history that bordered on the ridiculous and while composing the last paragraph I was furnished wtih one of the most obvious. Have you ever witnessed a group of college stu dents marching about a room blindfolded and screaming "quack, quack, quack, quack" over and over . . .? No? Well then you've never aeen part of the Kosmet Klub initiation. As the boys were led through the Daly Nebras kan office quacking loudly much to the approval of the following hordes of Kosmet Klub members, a bystander commented: "They sore must want to be members of Kosmet Klub." 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