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The Daily Nebraskan
Vol. 92, No. 2
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by John Dvorak
Senior Staff Writer
ASUN Senators gathered for their
first meeting Wednesday afternoon
with only minor business and an
nouncements to consider, but they
were shocked.
After the call for new business,
Senator Curt Donaldson stated, "I
move we establish a, student
government."
"We do not yet have a student
government," he continued. ASUN
Senate was given a poor mandate
last spring by the students, he
pointed out.
DONALDSON CHARGED that
the administration has spoken
"with a forked tongue" in the past.
But Student Senate has not been
on top of the action, as when the
grading system was changed last
spring, or the University's property
acquisitions in the Malone came
into question. Senate must take the
offense, Donaldson concluded.
Only about six Senators had
previous knowledge of Donaldson's
motion. It was planned to shock
the Senate into action, according
to ASUN President Carig Dreeszen.
Debate ensued following the mo
tion. Tom Morgan said he failed to
nee the appropriatness of the mo
tion. "It is not fair or correct to
say we are not a student govern
ment. The passage of this motion
might make more of a mockery
of ASUN that we are already."
Senator Tom Wiese remarked,
"We had better get involved in
student government."
Another senator said that the
appropriateness of the motion need
not be considered. He pointed out
that someone at the University of
Michigan is trying to . completely
abolish student government.
AFTER DEBATE CEASED,
Donaldson withdrew the motion.
Later he said, "I didn't want to
embarrass ASUN."
first vice president Mike Naave
then commented, "I think ideas are
starting to bubble." The Senate
recessed into four groups to discuss
the implications of the motion.
Talk centered around past issues
in which the Senate did not voice
comment until after action was
taken the conduct of drop and
add this fall, the failure of the stu
dent operated FM station, and the
grading system change. One group
agreed that most Senate actions
were only reactions to something
already done.
"The Senate must get on top of
the issues," Senator Bob Zucker
said. ASUN appears to be last on
the list of priorities for most
senators, he charged.
"The Senate is not working as
a group," Curt Donaldson injected.
Following 30 minutes of group
lecturers scheduled to speak
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discussion, the Senate went back
into session.
SENATORS THEN wrote down
what they considered the single key
issue this semester. That paper,
accompanied by the S e n a t o r s '
name and telephine number, will
be placed on a bulletin board in
the ASUN office.
Following the meeting, Dreeszen
expressed optimism, saying that
things are indeed rolling. But he
added that much work remains to
be done.
In other Senate action, the first
Friday Afternoon Club will be held
at the apartment of Mike Naeve
this Friday. This "club" is intended
to be an informal gathering of
senators, executives and any other
interested personnel. They will
discuss anything coming to mind. .
Zucker also announced that the
National Student Association's fall
regional meeting will be held at
the Nebraska Center for Continuing
Education November 1, 2 and 3.
The meeting, composed of
delegates from Nebraska and Iowa
colleges and universities will
discuss student power and white
racism.
Seven members of Senate at
tended the National Student
Association's meeting summer
conference in Manhattan, Kansas
last August. Their report will be
given next week.
by Connie Winkler
Junior Staff Writer
The Negro in the city, the
presidential election, law and
inside picture of sport, the Kennedy
assassination, and the United Na
tions will all become part of the
Nebraska Union this year.
The 1968-69 Nebraska Union
Spakers series will include
Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes, Dr.
Walter Heller, F. Lee Bailey,
Pastor Novak, Ralph Nader,
George Plimpton, and Jim Gar
rison. In connection with the Model
United Nations, John Stoessinger,
Director of the Political Affairs
Division of the United Nations, and
Dr. Darrell Randall, who has just
completed a study in Africa, will
also speak.
THE DEMOCRATIC mayor of
Cleveland, Carl Stokes, will speak
on October 22. He is the first Negro
mayor of Cleveland. He was also
a speaker at the recent Democratic
National Convention.
Dr. Walter Heller from Min
nesota is presidential candidate
Hubert Humphrey's economic ad
visor. He will speak here on Oc
tober 24, before the presidential
election.
Heller has authored and co
authored many books on economics
in the United States. He has made
contributions to the Encyclopedia
Britannica and to various pro
fessional and congressional
journals.
Time magazine has done two
cover stories on him, first in 1961,
and again in 1962.
F. (for Francis) Lee Bailey, the
sensational defense lawyer, will
talk on his life in court on
November 14.
Bailey came to national pro
minence for his defense of Dr. Sam
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Sheppard ' and the reversal ' of
Sheppard's murder conviction. The
lawyer went on to win the acquittal
of Dr. Carl Coppolino in New
Jersey.
The Saturday Evening Post has
called him "the hottest young
criminal lawyer." He has ridden
this fame to appearances on
television including a show of his
own.
WHILE STUDYING law at
Boston University, Bailey opened
Hamilton
voters to
"Give a Damn."
That is the proposed slogan for
Bruce Hamilton's campaign for
Nebraska Congressman, borrowed
from a New York City poverty
program, but seen as an impetus
to gain votes Nov. 5.
"WE WANT the vote of people
who give a damn, who are con
cerned, who care," he said.
Hamilton is a senior in the Law
College and is editor of the
Nebraska Law Review.
But the 26-year-old Nebraska
New Party candidate found it dif
ficult to estimate the strength of
the party's ultra-liberal positions in
a state like Nebraska, even though
his campaign will be focused on
the First Congressional District. He
did point to the results of the
Nebraska May primary (which
gave over 80 per cent of the
slogan urges
he concerned
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which supported an end to the
Vietnam war and the solution of
the urban crises) as some basis
of strength.
"We are an issue-orientated par
ty," Hamilton continued, "so we
are concerned with bringing the
issues to the people, hoping that
the other two candidates join in
the debate.
The "other two" are Rep. Robert
Denney, a Republican, and the man
he defeated in 1966 Clair Callan.
Callan spent two years in the House
of Representatives, from 1964 to
1966, and is seeking to return this
year.
Much of the debate of the New
Party convention Tuesday night
concerned the role of its candidate
for Congress. Should he be con
sidered a "spoiler," seeking only
to hurt either candidates; or, is
he a viable candidate?
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C. Peter Macgrath, former associate dean of the graduate college at Brown Universe
Rhode Island, takes over as Nebraska University Dean of Arts and Sciences.
Brown University Professor
to head Arts and
A 35-year-old former associate
dean of the graduate school at
Brown University has begun his
first semester as dean of the
University's College of Arts and
Sciences.
Dr. C. Peter Magrath, a native
of Brooklyn who graduated summa
cum laude from the University of
New Hampshire, received a Ph.D.
from Cornell in 1961. He became
a full professor of Political Science
at Brown after just six years on the.
faculty.
MAGRATH SUCCEEDS Dr.
Walter Militzer who asked to be
relieved of administrative duties
last September. Dr. James Olson
had been serving as acting dean
of Arts and Sciences.
"I am personally looking forward
to learning more about Nebraska
and Its people," Magrath said.
"Tbt opportunity of living and
working in the Midwest is an
educational one for me personally."
Magrath's selection climaxed a
nationwide search by a faculty
committee and other officials.
"We are looking forward to ag
grenive and imaginative
leadership from a man who at the
age of 35 already has an outstan
ding record as a teacher, scholar,
aad administrator," Chancellor
Clifford Hardin commented.
"The University's College of Arts
and Sciences is very good and, like
others across the country, is in the
midst of continuing change and
development to meet the challenges
of the times," Magrath said.
The new Dean, who is married
and has one daughter, will also
be a professor of Political Science
at the University. He is a Political
Science advisor to Encyclopedia
sciences
International
MAGRATH HAS WRITTEN three
books and numerous articles for
technical journals. He currently is
completing work on a major tex
tbook on American government.
Magrath had extensive admini
strative experience at Brown. He
was appointed chairman of
the Brown University Advisory
Committee on Student Conduct in
the fall of 1966. His committee ex
amined and made recommenda
tions on a wide variety of conduct
issues and resolved certain Im
mediate questions involving the
faculty's role in disciplinary cases.
Magrath is a member of
American Association of University
Professors, American Political
Science Association, Law and
Society AssnHntion and Phi Beta
Kappa.
"I can tell you right now that
I am running to win." Hamilton
said. "There are predictions con
cerning the amount of the vote we
can take, but I fail to see the
necessity of making such a predic
tion now."
Some delegates to the convention
thought it would be improbable that
the total vote realized in November
would exceed five per cent.
But Hamilton's first concern
after being nominated was
reassurance that his name will, in
fact, appear on the First District
ballot. Then, he said, he will worry
about vote totals.
HE AND HIS staff, primarily'
composed of New Party members
from the University, have prepared
statements to show legal basis for
the candidacy from existing
statutes.
"We have no proof that it will
be questioned," the law student
said, "but we have heard rumors
that there could be arguments from
the statehouse."
Hamilton planned to have his in
itial staff meeting late Wednesday
afternoon, and another one today.
He will then form committees on
finance, issues and strategy for the
upcoming 50-day campaign.
He also dismissed two issues
which some think may hinder his
campaign from the start: his age
and the intellectual tag placed on
the party itself.
"My age will not be an Issue,"
Hamilton stated. "I suppose we
could dig np a large amount of
Information showing bow young
people have made a political im
pression on this country since 1776.
But we will not.
"This year has demonstrated that
eople under 30 are important fac
tors in the political world of the
United States. I think the older
voters of this district will recognize
this fact."
The New Party has been
criticized for appearing to be
strictly academic, since its roster
is filled with liberal professors
from NU.
"At this point it is my intention
to keep those people who are in
the party but to seek new mem
bership," Hamilton said.
He noted that some New Party
members are not associated with
the university and that once the
issues it supports are brought to
the people, the party will lose its
identification with the intellectual
community.
"IT REALLY is no problem
now," he continued, "and I trust
that it won't even be a valid argu
ment in a few weeks."
There were two events, Hamilton
feels, which have aided his political
evolution:
First, the day he met Sen. John
F. Kennedy; and second, two years
in Ethiopia, serving in the Peace
Corps.
"I know it sounds t'orn y,"
Hamilton explained, "but I ad
mired the things President Ken
nedy did, what he said, and the
goals for which he reached, and
I was sold on the Peace Corps and
its potential."
He said that his experiences in
Ethiopia largely contributed to his
present feelings concerning the role
of the United States in foreigu af
fairs. "The U.S. can't just barge in on
any country's problems," he said,
reiterating the New Party's state
ment on U.S. military intervention,
passed at the convention.
He said that his campaign will
not be a negative one, that he will
criticize neither Denney nor Callan.
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Michael Novak
bis own investigative agency. After
school he served three years as
a staff legal officer while a jet
fighter pilot in the Marine Corps.
His unusual courtroom successes
and opinions have made him a
sought after speaker.
Pastor Michael Novak will be on
the campus in conjunction with the
campus pastors and will speak at
the Union on December 5.
Novak is chairman of the Com
mon Humanities Seminar at the
new experimental campus of the
State University of New York on
Long Island.
While teaching at Stanford for
three years, he was elected by the
senior class as one of the three
"most influential professors."
He co-authored the pamphlet
"Vietnam: Crisis in Conscience"
and has written several books in
cluding, New Generation, Belief
and Unbelief, and A Time to Build.
The teacher-pastor graduated
from Stonehill College, studied
abroad, and was a Kent Fellow
at Harvard.
Novak hafcxpressed concern
over the younger generation and
how they can believe in God in
our century.
MUCH OF THE CREDIT for the
increased number of safety
features in new automobiles
belongs to Ralph Nader. With his
best-seller. Unsafe at Any Speed
Nader brought'national attention to
the great number of highway
deaths and unsafe cars.
The lawyer-critic is still lobbying
for safer autos, but has also
become concerned about the
saftey of x-rays and other poten
tial dangers to the public.
Ralph Nader
Nader received his A.B. from
Princeton University in 1955 and
his L.B. in 1956 from the Harvard
Law School. Before starting his
practice be served as a Research
Assistant in the Harvard Law
School and in the U.S. Army.
In addition to his book, he has
done articles for the Atlantic
Monthly, Nation, and the Christian
Science Monitor.
Nader will be at the Union on
December 12.
Greek Row may become
known as Greek Tow if stu
dents don't find some new
parking spaces Saturday.
Lincoln police Lt. D. G.
Smith has informed the Uni
versity that 16th Street be
tween Vine and R will be
closed to parking from 5:30
a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday to
allow for six lanes of traffic
on Football weekends.
The problem of getting on
to and off the campus has
been intensified this year
due to the closing of 14th
Street from Vine to R.
Any car still parked on
16th after 2 p.m. will be
towed away, say the police.
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The man about the world, George
Ames Plimpton, will explore the
many worlds of George Plimpton
on February 20.
The well-known sportsman and
sociable says of himself that he
wants to know everyone of this
time who is famous, interesting,
or talented and to be whatever
they are.
He has written a book. Paper
Lion, about his experiences playing
quarterback with the Detroit Lions,
is interested in what the major
athletes do and in the inside picture
of sport. Plimpton also edits The
Paris Review, and does articles for
popular magazines.
Plimpton graduated from
Harvard and Cambridge and is a
former escort to Jacqueline Ken
nedy. Jane Fonda, and Queen
Elizabeth.
JIM GARRISON, the District
Attorney from New Orleans, will
be on the campus April 1.
Garrison has come to national
attention because of bis continued
Investigation into the assassination
of President John F. Kennedy.
Two other speakers will speak
in connection with the Model "United
Nations on December 13 and 14.
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