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Wednesday, September 11, 1968
The Daily Nebraskan
Vol. 92, No. 1
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Higher education
Almost unbelieving students greeted rapidly completed
structures on their return to fall classes as NU saw the end
approaching to its building boom. See construction story
page 3.
Board of Regents upholds
student Bill of Rights policy
Though the Board of Regents
adopted as institutional policy two
documents dealing with student
publications and a "student bill of
rights," students returning this
week will find few tangible changes
on campus.
The publications document is
basically a reaffirmation, with
some rewording, of previously ex
isting policies. It gives the students
editorial freedom and financial
autonomy, but imposes
journalistic canons in student
publications.
The second document, initiated
as a student bill of rights, was
introduced for final approval to the
Regents after being completed last
spring by the Student Academic
Freedom committee. The com
mittee was composed of represen
tatives from tbe faculty,
administration and student body.
It was adopted as a statement
covering admission policy, rules
and regulations, off-campus
freedoms, student records, freedom
of expression, instructional and
grading procedures, instructor
student consultation, procedure for
course evaluation, student govern
ment and student organizations.
It expands on the 17 amendments
to the ASUN constitution, approved
by a student referendum in the
spring of 1967.
Both students and faculty are
assured of freedom of speech. St
atements expressed within tbe
academic community are to be
treated as confidential unless re
leased by the individual.
Rules, regulations and matters of
policy affecting student life are to
be formulated wr2j "equitable
participation of the students."
Students accused of breaking '
I'niversity rules are to be informed
of tbe specific charges and to
receive a fair hearing with tbe
privilege of appeal. They will keep
their status as students while the
case is pending.
If a student violates a law off
.the campus, the University main
tains the right to "interest and in
volvement" but is sot to use in
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stitutional authority to duplicate
normal legal channels.
In participating in public ex
pressions or demonstrations off
campus, stbdents are to make it
clear they speak and act only for
themselves.
Students' academic and disciplin
ary records are to be maintained
separately. Disciplinary and coun
seling files are available only to au
thorized personnel on the campus
Welcome back . .
By George Kaufman
Senior Staff Writer
It was business as usual Monday
and Tuesday for Universty
students as they found ' themselves
herded into lines for everything.
But the smart ones learned right
away that the quickest way to their
destination was not a straight line.
Students arrived at the
administration building as early as
6 o'clock Tuesday morning in order
to get appointment cards for the
drop and add line at the Coliseum.
ANYONE ARRIVING at the 8 a.m.
opening time at the windows found
a line down the administration
building hall, out the back entrance
and stretching all the way out to
the sidewalk in front of Love
Library. By tbe time the same stu
dent reached the windows, the ap
pointment card he was given read
3-3:30 p.m.
Just after 8:30 the windows were
closed and no more appointmett
cardswere given out for the day,
bettering Monday's closing time of
10:30 in the morning.
At the coliseum the lines for
football tickets stretched from the
desks in the foyer out to the street
in front of the building.
For students picking up tickets
bought last spring, there were three
desks, dividing tbe tickets
alpbabeticauiy, with just one person
behind each desk, leading to aa
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At convention . . .
New Party
Campaign 968 candidates
by Julie Morris
Senior Staff Writer
A University community
dominated convention of the
Nebraska New Party Tuesday night
nominated a candidate for Con
gress and adopted a liberal plat
form. Bruce Hamilton, a senior in law
from Lincoln, was nominated for
the first district congressional seat
now held by Robert V. Denney.
Hamilton is a former Peace Corps
member, and is editor of the
Nebraska Law Review.
The nomination was an indication
that the party in Nebraska intends
to make a strong case for itself
as a ''meaningful alternative" to
the Democratic and Republican
parties.
A number of Nebraska
Democratic powers had suggested
that it would be better if the party
did not name a congressional can
didate to give Democrat Clair
Callan a better chance to win the
seat back from Denney.
CALLAN MET the New Party
leaders Tuesday afternoon, but his
stands apparently proved unac
ceptable to the organizers. One
participant reported that Callan
said he would not support a
withdrawal from Vietnam.
The party Tuesday also adopted
a platform that includes a Vietnam
plank proposing that the U.S. "im
mediately cease all offensive
operations with the goal of com
pletely withdrawing from Vietnam
to allow the Vietnamese people to
resolve their own problems."
Two resolutions on the draft and
a resolution urging a national
primary were tabled.
About 100 people, almost all of
or nnder legal compulsion or where
the safety of other persons is invol
ved. Faculty members are to en
courage freedom of expression and
to permit students to express con
trary views.
Determination of course content
and instructional and grading pro
cedures is left to the faculty.
Students are to be informed of
these matters at the beginning of
a course.
sections closed, all lines open
average line time of ever a half
an boor.
For new students taking ad
vantage of the last day of student
ticket sales, the lines were usually
a little shorter and the wait
somewhat shorter. But, of course,
the tickets were not quite as good.
But for many veterans of ad
ministration shepherding, the lines
and appointment cards were simply
a farce.
A few students found out early
Tuesday morning that it didn't take
a Green Beret to sneak through
the side of the drop-and-add sec
tion, pay your fee and go about
your business without ever having
to stand in line for an appointment
card or wait until the given time.
BY MID-AFTERNOON tbe secret
had become open knowledge,
passed on from friend to friend, and
a. veritable stream of enterprising
students flowed into the section
unchallenged.
Others found out that there were
two lines to the football tickets
desks tbe one going out the door
and one which formed inside and
merged with the longer one.
And, of course, there was always
the time-honored tradition of line
busting, practiced liberally by
hardened experts, veterans of four
or more campaigns in this annual
war between student and
administration.
them University professors and
students, attended the convention
at Lincoln's Unitarian Church.
The New Party began organizing
throughout the country after the
assassination of Sen. Robert F.
Kennedy. Marcus Raskin, one of
three men with Dr. Benjamin
Spock indicted for aiding and
abetting draft resistance, was one
of the national organizers.
THE NEBRASKA MOVEMENT
has been largely limited to Lincoln
and Omaha and centered on the
University campus with Phil
Scribner, assistant professor of
philosophy, as chairman of the
local organization.
The party failed to gain enough
signatures to be a state party, but
has been certified in the first con-
ndian
raws
By JOHN DVORAK
Senior Staff Writer
Student involvement will be the
key issue in Senate this semester
according to the consenus of opi
nion at the ASUN retreat, held
Friday and Saturday at Camp
Kitaki.
Senators and executives, discuss
. ed some of the most important
issues facing the University, ASUN
President Craig Dreezen said
Tuesday.
HE TERMED the second annual
retreat a success, with about 25
Senators, executives and several
administrators attending.
"In the past, the Senate has not
really encouraged student involve
ment," Dreezen said. "Senate has
not represented the students; it has
not bothered to explain its actions
or solicit student opinions," he
continued.
"Students must feel they can
make a difference," Dreezen
declared. "The Senate is com
mitted to that goaL"
During the retreat, the Senators
considered ways to achieve this
goal:
put up bulletin boards around
the University,
hold luncheon meetings in dif
ferent dormitories,
print leaflets on various issues,
perform various ASUN activities.
actively recruit more people to
And. for those with cars, there
was the car-sticker lines, first on
foot and then in cars. This year
the fee was raised from $5 to $1
but the lines were still tbe same.
At times, two different lines
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nominates
gressional district as a con
gressional party.
The party organizers have
secured enough signatures to place
Eugene McCarthy and Texas Sen.
Ralph Yarborough on the first
district Nebraska ballots as New
Party candidates for President and
vice president. Those signatures
have not been validated as yet.
The platform adopted Tuesday
deals with foriegn policy, the world
situation, Vietnam, domestic
unrest, racism, poverty and na
tional politics.
It includes a condemnation of an
"American foreign policy that has
become increasingly militaristic."
The delegates were unaminous in
taking a stand on Vietnam that
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poll students with question
naires or by telephone.
hold public Senate hearings on
controversial subjects.
Several other ideas win also
receive serious consideration this
semester, Dreezen said.
The Senate may publish a Tues
day newsletter. The publication,
called IDEA (It Demands
Everyone's Attention), would in
form students about the last Senate
meeting, activity, post the agenda
for the next meeting, and would
also include committee reports and
other features.
The senate may also initiate a
program Better Ideas to Campus
Hangnps. Such a gathering could
be held in different locations each
week.
The Senate may form a Friday
afternoon club an informal get
together where senators, executives
or other interested persons could
discuss senate-pertaining issues.
"In such an environment,
senators could really let their im
snaked out from the campus police
sticker-station in the Nebraska Hall
parking lot: one reaching out the
lot and up 17th Street as far as
the Vine Street signals, the other
slanting around the lot and back
down 16th Street where tbe cars
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called for withdrawal, but a plank
proposing an immediate end to the
draft and another that violators of
the draft laws be cleared were
stalled because of 4 v a g u t
wording."
The first draft resolution propos
ed a voluntary army. And the
followup resolution was that those
who have left the country to avoid
the draft be allowed to return
without prosecution and those who
have been jailed be released and
paid for the time they'd spent in
prison.
A plank suggesting a satioal
primary to select presidential can
didates was also tabeled because
of vague wording.
For more information, see story
on page 5.
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aginations go wild without feeling
stifled by parliamentary
proceedures," Dreezen said. He
pointed out that the Free Universi
ty was developed by such informal
brainstormings.
The 1968-69 ASUN President
hoped that, in the future, the of
ficial Senate meetings could be
merely a formality since all issues
could be developed, considered and
perfected in these informal
gatherings of students and officials.
The ASUN retreat decided that
white racism is another important
issue this semester, Dreezen said.
Tbe senate will attempt to
discover discrimination on campus,
in off-campus housing and in other
areas. The Senate will expose any
racism it encounters and will con
front individuals with their own
racism, he said. He remarked that
this will be "a heck of a job."
The student legislators . decided
at the retreat that student govern
ment is much more than a once
a week activity, Dreezen said. It
most be a continuing process and
begin at the grass-roots level
Five University administrators
attended the two-day conference.
They were G. Robert Ross, Student
Affairs. Vernon Williams, counsel
ing psychologist: Russell Brown;
associate dean of Student Affairs;
and Ron Eaglin and Drl Verle
Miller, counseling department.
which had just received stickers
were coming out.
But, as usual, all the casualties
were on the side of the students
missed classes and dates, lack
of sleep, strained nerves and foot
soreness.