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The Daily Nebraskcn
Friday, May 3, 1968
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
Editorials
Commentary
Sen. Carpenter
strikes again
Sen Terry Carpenter made his spring debut
this week and for his first number he speared ev
eryone from the Chancellor to the Daily Nebraskan.
s was also characteristic of his recent con
demnation of the drug "problem" at the University,
Sen. Carpenter's claims that the Chancellor and
other "powers" are attempting to oust Sen. Rich
ard Marvel from his position on the budget com
mit!ee were unfounded and completely lacking in
evidence.
He was correct In his statement that Chancel
lor Hardin is removed somewhat from the campus.
Although the Chancellor is Inaccessible to the aver
age student, he is kept extremely well informed
through the ambitious efforts of the Office of Stu
dent Affairs
On a campus the size of the University it Is
only natural the Chancellor wouldn't be on a first
nair.e basis with 18,000 students or know every
time Builders holds an election. Sen. Carpenter
sesms to be using entirely Inadequate criteria for
judging incompetency.
The statement which hit the height of irony,
however, was Carpenter's definition of student pow
er on campus. Anyone who has ever attended a
Faculty Senate meeting or even a Student. Senate
meeting understands unfortunately, the ludicrosi
ty of the statement that students "are running the
University."
Sen. Carpenter even has aimed a few stray
arrows at the Dally Nebraskan during his most re
cent rampage, with the statement that the news
paper should not be allowed to operate "in its pres.
ent form." It appears that the Senator's reactionary
views have expanded to the point where he would
even deny newspapers freedom of speech if he had
the opportunity.
The University should be very tired of being
the monthly victim of the Senator's unfounded
criticisms. He is beginning to sound like a second-
: rate jiriystery writer every time he proclaims he is
the b'est informed person about University matters
.thanks to his "sources" who undoubtedly are hid
ing under dormitory beds and bugging the Office
pi Student Affairs.
Many state senators and administrators have
)eep. telling Terrible Terry to produce evidence or
cairn' down for a long time but only his constituents
tan and should take action to vote him out of office.
Cheryl Tritt
.'John Reiser
Finally a race
Governor Rockefeller's decision to enter the
frace as an active candidate for the Republican
presidential nomination comes at the most oppor
.ue moment possible.
;- There is no need now for a bitter, divisive pri
mary struggle which would have wrecked his chan
ges for the nomination, even if he'd won every pri
mary. J " Instead, his new status will draw increasing
.public attention to statements he'll be making on
;the issues. This should result in a dramatic Rocke
"f eller surge in public opinion polls.
" I think he can and will be nominated. Certainly
his announcement serves notice that delegates will
go to Miami for a convention, not a coronation.
The present front-runner has no delegate votes from
the big states,, which are committed to favorite-sons.
Uncommitted delegations will stay that way,
while watching for signs of public reaction to the
Rockefeller candidacy. The signs will be forthcom
ing.. If, as 1 expect, it becomes even more clear that
Rockefeller, alone among Republican hopefuls, can
win the White House, I don't think the convention
can deny him nomination.
Remember also that Rockefeller already has
one-oig state in his corner New York. Delega
tiogrfrom Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Jer
sey, -Ohio and Illinois can all be expected to be
mo!than favorable to his candidacy.
Without the critical big-state support, he'll fall
short, of nomination tn the first ballot. Then the
decision will be made at the convention. Then the
question will be, "Can he win?"
If, that is the inquiry, Nelson Rockefeller, four
short years after he was booed and jeered by ex
tremists at the 1964 convention, will stand before
the 1968 .convention as its nominee.
; rAjid the nation will know that the Republican
part has chosen to respond affirmatively to the
isytjjs of this day, that the disastrous detour is
OAifathat the Republican party intends to be a
retevant factor in American political life once again.
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Money audi
the corps
WASHINGTON (CPS)-The
total budget requested by the
Peace Corps for the next fis
cal year is only "enough to
run the war in Vietnam for
. about two days," Sen. J. Wil
liam Fulbright, chairman of
the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, said this week.
"We are spending about $80
billion a year on military af
fairs," Fulbright said, but
the Peace Corps request for
Fiscal 1969 is only $112.8 mil
lion. "That's a great com
mentary on our priorities,"
he said.
Fulbright's comments were
made during the Foreign Re
lations Committee's hearings
on the Peace Corps authori
zation. Peace Corps Director
Jack Vaughn, who appeared
before the committee, did not
comment on the priorities.
Fulbright, a critic of t h e
Johnson Administration's for
eign policy, also discussed the
"inconsistency" between the
goals of the Peace Corps
throughout the world and
American foreign policy.
Vaughn voiced his disagree
ment on this point.
Fulbright said he thinks
"it's very difficult for our
young people to go abroad un
der the present circum
stances." He indicated he
would be "embarassed" to
serve as a Peace Corps vol
unteer while the United States
Is continuing its present for
eign policy.
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William F. Uncklcy
Who's birthday is coming
The impatience rises as
days and weeks go by with
out agreement on a site for
negotiations with North Viet
nam. The fault, as usual, lies
with the enemy, which per
versely insists on meetings in
the capital of a Communist
country (Poland) or a satel
lized ministate (Cambodia).
The United States, ever an
xious to please, came out with
a seemingly endless list of ac
ceptable alternatives, in coun
tries which cannot be thought
to be under American con
trol. As it happens, it would not
greatly matter if the discus
sions were held in the capital
of the friendliest country on
earth, because the United
States Is not disposed to con
vert negotiations into propa
ganda festivals, we being as
we are.
From
named,
the list of cities we
Paris was conspicu
ously absent. The reason why,
we discover, is that it is a
Communist quirk never to ac
cept something that you first
suggested. If we had suggest
ed Moscow, they would prob
ably have turned it down in
stinctively. The idea was to save Paris
for a third party to propose,
Paris being greatly qualified
on account of De Gaulle's anti-Americanism,
the presence
there of embassies from all
the allied powers fighting in
South Vietnam, and a very
good cuisine, which is a ma
jor factor inasmuch as the ne
gotiations are likely to last
months, maybe even years.
There is a strange, almost
talismanic symbolism in the
matter of the choice of a site.
The idea, of course, is to be
gin by casting the other fel
low in the role of the postu
lant. For instance the end of
the First World War, con-
eluded at the little railroad
car in the outskirts of Paris.
Then one needs a highly re
fined communications system,
so as to be able to keep the
various headquarters instant
ly informed. It is generally
supposed that we are in a po
sition to effect security in our
communications from almost
anywhere, and it is true that
we have code devices that are
pretty reliable. But as a mat
ter of sheer tedium, it is dis
tracting, over the long pull,
to have to run the shower or
whatever every time Avercll
Harriman wants to exchange
an opinion with Cyrus Vance.
The insiders will tell you
that the American Embassy
in Warsaw, where it is now
proposed that the diplomats
meet temporarily in order,
you can stand it, to discuss
where to meet permanently,
is probably the most infested
up?
building in the entire world,
that American ambassadors
even get estranged from their
wives there, on account of the
necessity for total silence, lest
their after-dinner conversa
tions. General privacy as distin
guished from pure communi
cations privacy is therefore a
factor, but it is not easy to
speak about it because, in the
extraordinary world of diplo
macy, one simply doesn't
suggest that those nice peo
ple you are about to sit down
with would dream of bugging
your room.
Who will solve the dead
lock? There was a silly dead
lock 23 years ago at Dumbar
ton Oaks over just when the
first United Nations confer
ence at San Francisco would
be held, with the Russians
arguing for a date in mid
April, and the Americans for
a date in early May.
Professors must create relevance
WASHINGTON (CPS) -U.S.
Commissioner of Educa
tion Harold Howe II says he
can sympathize with today's
disenchanted college students
because professors "are bold
ly reshaping the world outside
the campus gates while ne
glecting to make correspond
ing changes to the world
within."
Howe says students "can
not understand why universi
ty professors who are respon
sible for the reach into space,
for splitting the atom, and for
the interpretation of man's
journey on earth seem unable
to find the way to make the
university pertinent to their
lives." College students "of
the pre-World War II era
would be quite at home with
the ways of teaching" on
campuses today, he says.
Howe's remarks were made
last weekend before more
than 600 professors attending
the annual meeting of the
American Association of Uni
versity Professors here. If
there is to be meaningful
change in higher education,
Howe said, "the professors
who really run the place . . .
are going to have to be the
ones to bring it about."
He said professors should
examine their institutions to
determine if the present grad
ing s y s t e m is adequate,
whether" or not the curricu
lum is relevant to life in to
morrow's world, if admis
sions policies are discrimi
nating against disadvantaged
and minority group students,
and whether the institutional
reward system is promoting
scientific research while de
struction. He said universities should
provide exceptions in admis
sion standards and special
help for Negroes, Mexlcan
ans, and Puerto Ricans whose
college potential has been
scarred by poverty and dis
crimination. Professors attending the
meeting also heard AAUP's
annual report on the econom
ic status of professors. The
report showed an overall per
centage increase of 7.4 per
cent in compensations of fac
ulty members at all levels,
but said that because of the
rapid rise in the price level
this year's rate of increase is
substantially lower than that
of the pervious year.
The report also showed that
the nation's private colleges
and universities continued to
lag behind public institutions
in the improvement of fac
ulty salaries. It said an "air
of crisis hangs over private
institutions," a crisis which
is likely to grow more serious
with time.
The AAUP survey, how
ever, showed that state insti
tutions are least competitive
in their renumeration of ten
ured faculty full and associ
ate professors.
In order to help alleviate
the financial crisis and save
the dual system of higher ed
ucation, the report said fac
ulty members will have to
study .and put into effect
measures which help increase
the productivity of teaching
efforts and thereby help keep
costs down. The report also
said the federal government
will have to increase its sup
port of colleges in ways that
do not involve direct control
of institutional activities.
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I Republican brand
I of 'me-tooism' I
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The Republican Party is probably the most
promising political party in the United States. At
the beginning of this year's presidential campaign
the GOP had an impressive list of candidates and
non-candidates.
Nearly every point of view promised to be rep
resented by Romney, Rockefeller, Nixon and Rea
gan. This was when the Democrats were faced with
a choice between an unpopular incumbent presi
dent and an unlikely challenger Eugene McCar
thy. But now, the promise of the Republican Party
is sounding like an echo. It Is the Republicans these
days who have the candidate with the most worn
image, Richard Nixon. And it Is they who have the
smallest choice of candidates, Nixon and Rocke
fellerwho has probably waited too long.
And if the Republican party's choice of candi
dates is small and disappointing, it's choice of so
lutions to national issues is even more so.
The Republians were in the news this week.
Rockefeller announced his candidacy and soon af.
terward made a "major policy address" on Viet
nam. Time magazine practically endorsed Richard
Nixon when it described Nixon's views on race re
lations. Despite my respect for the Intelligence of time
editors, it seemed that this last week the GOP was
again lapsing into its traditional campaign of "me
tooism." And when those tactics failed, they re
sorted to the time worn tradition of accusing the
Democrats of mismanaging the economy.
Nelson Rockefeller made several intelligent re
marks in his speech to the World Affairs Council
in Philadelphia, Wednesday, but his Vietnam policy
was nearly identical with the "new course" of the
Johnson administration.
And after waiting so long before speaking out
on international affairs, Rockefeller's call for a de
"Americanization of the war in Vietnam" could
only sound like a loaned speech from McCarthy or
Kennedy headquarters.
If Rockefeller was disappointing, Nixon was
more disappointing than usual when he spoke out
on racial unrest.
Nixon skillfully evoked the "financial crisis"
spectre but his conservatism still showed through
when he said:
"The fiscal crisis now confronting America is
so great . . . that only by cutting the federal budget
can we avert an economic disaster in which the
poor . . . would be caught calamitously in the un-
J?? ; C -?. talk of increasing the budget to our
additional billions into the cities this year is a cruel
delusion." ' 1
It seems strange that while Nixon is so worried
about the budget he has no qualms about spending
???! p VlKvam- Wh,he is reaUy is that!
(as the Republican candidate inevitably savs even?
four years) he wants to cut back on government
spending. It is not the poor, but American business
Xrtow" CaUght "calamitously in the
fwi rooaICrisis" he.evokes is merely the track V
konal GOP charge against Democratic overspend-
Nixon does claim to have a program for the"
cities. He calls for involvement of private enter
prise ib , the ghettos. It isn't a bad ideaTnd it is
one of the steps recommended by the President's
Riot Commission (along with increased government
spending). But it isn't a new idea. NixonTsSion
sounds as if it were garnered from the p!Se, of
Kennedy's To Seek A Newer World. . . P
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