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A' r -- W , Joel Solkoff, Columbia University junior majoring in medieval history, speaks about the demonstration in which he participated. 5? Wednesday, May 8, 1968 Officials explain Malome e Students Malone by Jim Evinger Senior Staff Writer A group of University students expressed dissatisfaction Tuesday to Chancellor Clifford Hardin, re garding University expansion into the Malone area east of campus. "In the last several years the University has planned and be gun implementing an expansion program without adequate consul tation witn the people who are most directly affected," stated a letter presented to Hardin, signed by four students. Craig Dreeszen, ASUN presi dent. Rod McCall. chairman of the Senate Human Rights Committee, Orville Jones, president of Selleck Quadrangle, and Jack Todd, next fall's Daily Nebraskan editor, signed the letter. The letter also states that "the University has been insensitive to the human problems of these residents," coercing Malone resi dents into moving out of their homes. He explained that because the University can set no definite deadline for purchase of the land in the area, the residents are in a dilemma about selling to the University immediately or to make physical improvements to their property. He emphasized that the Malone residents were financially able to make physical improvements. Bob Ginn said the University must request funds from the Legisla ture in order to set a definite calendar date for land purchas ing to allow for eastward expan sion of the city campus. Solkoff to talk at Hyde Park Joel. Solkoff, representing the dis sident student body at Columbia University, will speak at a special p-. Hyde Park session in the Union at " 3:30 p.m. Wednesday. Solkoff was among those arrested for seizing administration and re citation buildings. - , ;.. . ' ' iiliSlinilHHIIIilllllllimillllllHMHi!ll!llllllllllllllllllllie The 1968 CornhusW will be distributed Thursday and Friday, May 9 and 10, from I A .An v j.nn V 2 9. in a.iii.-v.w y.1114 ' ; The books will also be dis Irthirted the week of May 13. T&eitain a book, bring a re ceipt and ID to tile s South Pajty room in the Union dur sng these times. .. .A limited number of Com "uisberi are also on sale for eight dollars, 8ccordiB!? to f 1 I I I business manager Bob 'iiCvkS, nan. 1 iii!iiiiiiiiti(iUiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiitui;aii8iiii Fhoto by Dan Lately O n n Oil attack Policy Other canvassers added many elderly residents were that not able to move out of the area on their own without assitance. They added that a "lot of residents an not informed about the coercive University policy." "The University of Nebraska is responsible for the consequences of its expansion," the letter con tinues. It asks the University n demonstrate responsibility in one of two ways: "Stop immediately further pur chase of land and eastward ex pansion of the University causins displacement of residents," or "The University must insure that equivalent housing be pro vided for residents of the com munity before any sale is com pleted." The letter also lists areas in which the University is termed re sponsible for the welfare and needs of the residents. Tuesday afternoon a group of students canvassed houses -in the .Malone area "to determine both property ownership and commun ity sentiment concerning Univer sity expansion into the Malone Center area." Lincoln will utilize for Nebraska's primary May The pencil and paper ballot will not be used this year at the Lin coln polls for the May 14 Nebras ka primary. A device called the vote record er will confront those students who are old enough io vote and who registered for the primary. The ballot will be a computer card, and each voter will insert the card into a slot and punch his choice. The polling places will be open from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. When all , votes have been cast, the cards will be fed Into a computer that will separate and tabulate the votes cast for each candidate, thus eliminating the counting boards previously used. Four candidates appearing Candidates appearing on the May 14 primary ballot include former Vice President Richard Nixon, Gov. Ronald Reagan of California, Harold Stassen and Americus Liberator on the Repub- lican ticket. - The names of President I.vndnn Johnson, Sen. Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota and Sen. Robert Columbia University student speaks on future conflicts by Andy Cunningham Junior Staff Writer The confrontation at Columbia University will be a model for the course of student-administration conflicts across the country a visiting Columbia Student said Tuesday. Joel Solkoff said he had been sent by the Strike Coordinating Committee to various institutions not only to expose the manner in which the strike actually evolved, but also to make them aware of its portent for all universities. At the core of the present con flict at Columbia, according to Solkoff, is the issue of power - whether policy will be made by the administration or by the real academic community, the students and the faculty. 'Holds power "The administration realizes that it holds power unjustly. What will happen all over the country will be that it will have to give this power to faculty and students, he explained. He added he hoped this kind of change in the structure of other universities will not evolve in the same way it has at Columbia. Among the items listed under the Columbia students' demands for change in the structure of their university's policy-making appara tus is a bipartite committee for studying the differences getween students and administrators. 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Today Students for Rockefeller will nave an organizational meeting at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Nebras ka Union it -tr -k The University of Nebraska Wild life Club will meet Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Nebraska Union. The program will be on fishing. k ThT "it Representatives from Vista will be . in the Nebraska Union this week. , ; , , ,, '. , - The Marine Corps Officer Selcc- Solkoff also said students want to be judged by their peers and not by old men who are actually out of contact with the main stream of the university. The present state of affairs at Columbia, according to Solkoff, came to a head after repeated attempts by the students to have their demands met through the proper legal channels. President Grayson Kirk's reply, Sokoff said, is reflected in the arrest of six petitioning students for the violation of a University ban on indoor demonstrations. "After going through all the proper avenues, we felt we had to oppose," Solkoff stated. Principal grievances One of the two principal griev ances, he explained, lay in the university's decision to erect a gymnasium at the site of a Har lem park over the opposition of the surrounding community. This, Solkoff said, was part of a consistent policy of racism on the part of the administration de signed to expand the University and force out those of the black community who lie in the way of the path of expansion. Students also resent Columbia's association with the Institute for Defense Analysis, (IDA) he said. Solkoff described IDA as a "think tank" of professors, pooled by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, de P i vote quarters for the candidates re ported the following: Kennedy to tour state Kennedy will arrive in Lincoln Thursday evening and will tour the southeastern corner of the state by motorcade beginning at 9 a.m. on Friday. He will go to South Dakota on Saturday, return to Omaha that night and is sched- tion Team will visit the campus on Wednesday and Thursday, May 8 and 9, to discuss officer training programs with students in the Ne braska Union. ir Pat Kennedy Lawford will attend a coffee in her honor on Thursday at 4:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union. IIUIIIIIIIIIIItllllllllllllUlfllllllllllIIHIIillfnilUlllllltlllll! S B I ' Wednesday's issue is the 1 1 final issue of this semester's I Daily Nebraskan. llllillllllllllllllllllillllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllHIIIIIIIIll signed to devise improved counter insurgency techniques, riot con trol methods and even biological warfare innovations. Functioning with IDA, Solkoff said, runs counter to the purpose , of a university. "Part of that purpose," Solkoff noted, "is to make the world know the results of the school's research and not to publish them secretively like IDA." Eliminate ban Two other areas of student de mands include eliminating the ban on indoor demonstrations and granting an ammnesty, not from civil authorities but from the administration for the students who occupied University buildings as well as the dropping of charges against the six arrested demon strators. "The idea shared by the strik ing students is that we did noth ing wrong since we tried all the legal avenues first." Solkoff ex plained. "While their has been some op position to the strikers, whose make-up he described as half graduate and half undergraduate, coming from other students, Sol koff said they differed only on practice and not on the issues themselves. "The faculty is with us. They stood between students and the police and were clubbed and tak ti Relocation aid asked by residents by Susie Jenkins Junior Staff Writer A Malone neighborhood meet- ing was held Sunday afternoon by University officials to explain the University's purchasing policy regarding eastward expansion of the city campus. The meeting was held at the Malone Center and attended by about 75 area residents. Vice Chancellor Joseph Soshnik and Purchasing Agent George Hancock fielded questions from residents, many of which cen tered around relocation of resi dents upon University purchasing of property. One resident accused the Uni versity of "playing games," and advised residents to get a law yer, because "the University wants the land worse than you want to keep it." Another resident asked if the University did not have the moral obligation to "go farther, beyond what is legal in relocating resi dents, since most of the faces are black." Soshnik admitted that the ques tion of relocation was one that recorder 14 uled to appear at a rally in Lin coln on Sunday afternoon. Campaigning for her brother, Mrs. Pat Kennedy Lawford will appear at the Nebraska Union, Room 332, on Thursday at 4:30 p.m. She is then scheduled to speak at the Cornhusker Hotel at 8 p.m. She will headline a rally at the airport at 10 a.m. McCarthy will jet to Nebraska following ' the Indiana primary Wednesday and he is scheduled to arrive in Lincoln this evening for an appearance at McCarthy For President headquarters. He wil! leave the state Friday but return on Sunday for a cam paign trip through southwestern Nebraska. This may include a stop-over In Lincoln Sunday or Monday night when McCarthy will probably deliver a major cam paign address. Officials said that the schedule is not definite at this time. Nixon began and ended his pre-. primary campaigning Tuesday night at Pershing Auditorium. That was to have been his only ap pearance tn Nebraska before May 14. Reagan will not campaign in Nebraska at ail. en away along with students," he said. As further evidence of faculty support, Sholkoff cited a petition circulated by an ad hoc faculty committee on which 340 instruc tors and professors pledged not to teach formal classes during the strike. Many of the faculty members in favor of the strike held infor mal "liberation," classes, he said. Results of strike The strike, according to Shok off, has already shown some re sults, for example, he noted that at the invitation of President Kirk, the faculty had met for the first time in 120 years to discuss cam pus issues. Some of the trustees have come to the campus and spoken with students for the first time, he added. The long-range effect , however, are yet uncertain, Solkoff com mented. "If the University gives in, we will have a better university and more faculty will want to come to Columbia," he said. "If not, it will put the faculty in the position of wanting to strike, and it is very difficult to get professors when others have resigned." "The burden lies on the admin istration, not on the students and faculty," Sholkoff concluded. OlUiUU Vol. 91, No. 107 o Bansion "the University must look into, "and that the University would be "glad to vsit" with anyone who had ideas to help. Soshnik said that it would be against state law to initiate- a re location program without specific allocation of state funds for that purpose. Hancock said that such a pro gram would be useful, but that "it would take too long to begin a program like this. "We would be quite far along in purchasing the property before the money could be obtained from the state," he said. Hancock said further that it would not be professionally de sirable for his office to get in volved in pressing for some in dependent relocation organization Kay Thompson, director of the Malone Center, said there are groups in the city to help in resi dence relocation. "Malone Center hopes to give this area," she said. Hancock explained some steps already taken by the University to help in relocation. He said that buyers can be re ferred to other groups to find housing of equal value. He furth may be included to pay for mov ing expenses incurred to t h e family. One resident brought up the point that usually a house of "equal value" is in a slum when it is in the $6000 price range, and that they are not available. Hancock said that there are houses available, and that they are scattered around the city. He also said that payments by the University range from two o S14.000, and that 80 per cent of the properties are in the $3500 to $6000 price range. Half the properties purchased are inhabited by Negroes and half by whites, he said. One resident asked about the opportunities for older people who are displaced by the University expansion. "A retired person is too old -to buy a new house, and doesn't want to rent Wha assistance if' offered?" he said. Miss Thompson said responsi bility is taken by the Maloaa Cen ter One problem Hancock noted was the problems that displaced Negro renters have in finding1 new homes. "Negro buyers have little trouble finding new property, but.,' we have much more trouble with landlords. Jt simply takes - mors ' than 30 days to find available rent al space for a Negro family." a D i ; t-gtn- ti . It t ' ' .V ' -. 1 ,'ft;C"sar tSMrtm
