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Senior Staff Writer
Students aren't superstitious
not in public.
"But I won't use your name."
With that, students unleash a
barrage of superstitions, ideosyn-
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crasles or irrational behaviors that
make one think the University
caters to a bunch of nuts.
Oh, most aren't worried about
black cats or ladders or spilled salt.
But many confess they, too, are
surprised at the things they do.
ONE COED SAID that, because
of her background of "Old World
beliefs," she occasionally resorts
to an old custom, bowling seven
times before a new moon in order
to get her wish.
"I generally do this before
finals," she said with a serious tone
in her voice. "But, please don't
use my name."
A speech student told of refusing
to wear a particular dress if it
had brought bad luck in the past.
"For heaven's sake, don't let my
husband find out," she confided.
"He may misinterpret my Intentions."
Actors, and others connected with
the theatre have their own
superstitions associated with
performance night. Those
backstage during tonight's presen
tation of "The Hostage" at Howell
Theatre could hear the phrase
"break a leg" wafting throughout
the make-up room, but they pro
bably won't hear whistling.
A speech major explained that
"break a leg" is a traditional good
luck wish in the world of the
theatre, while whistling is supposed
to bring bad luck to the
performers.
ONE COED revealed that she
sleeps with a pillow over her head,
"probably because I am afraid of
the dark."
Many people flatly deny having '
any such habits.
"I am just not superstitious about
anything," Anita Lockhart, a se
nior in English, said.
Josepy Yrb, a mechanical
engineering student from Hong
Kong, said that if something hap
pened that appeared to be illogical
he attemtpts to find out why it
happened. That way it doesn't
become superstitious for him.
There are some who fabricate
stories for sensational effect.
One man said he just followed
"folksy" superstitions, (like "never
attack a girl whose boyfriend is
a football player") instead of the
normal witchcraft genre.
But many people are extreemly
serious about certain beliefs they
hold. And they don't care if their
names are used.
Rick Mann is a chemical
engineer and he believes in the
theory of "good vibrations."
"I TRULY BELIEVE that one
can tell if a stranger he meets
will be compatable by the 'vibra
tions' he transmits." he said.
In the past, he said it was called
intutition, or "just a funny feeling,"
Out the theory now contends that
people give off sound waves not
related to speech.
Mike Semrod, a business major,
and George Bryan, a speech and
English major, openly admit that
the number 84 has special meaning
for them.
They both were members of the
i4th class to graduate from Fremont
High School. They were involved
in an accident on a particular road
Highway 84. Also, the numbers
8 and 4 reappear on license plates,
account numbers and in other ways
that have confirmed some sort of
pattern.
Bryan also reads his horoscope
regularly and is "sympathetic to
the use of black magic."
An Oriental custom of throwing
three pennies against a wall six
times, noting the pattern created,
and then referring to a table for
I Ching (an oracle for daily
guidance) is used by Grady Waugh,
a math major. It is based on
various Eastern religions.
AND THE UNIVERSITY has an
active group of persons who study
Black Magic, poltergeists, and
other phenomena. In fact, the
Nebraska Free University offered
a course in Black Magic last
spring, to the surprise of many
fundamentalists.
But these students aren't a bunch
of nuts. They are studious, serious,
convinced . . , and some are very
secretive.
Just look at that happy mother,
taking her baby for a walk. Sure
is a strange black baby carriage.
"Hi, Rosemary."
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Friday, September 13, 1968
Vol. 92, No. 3
New party focus
aims at alienated
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By Julie Morris
Senior Staff Writer
The national Peace and Freedom
Movement, child of early anti
Vietnam sentiment, has arrived in
Nebraska as a podium for the
alienated.
Four of the seven members of
the Nebraska Peace and Freedom
Party are University students, but
the focus of party activity is not
on the campus.
Steering committee chairman
Dave Sallach, a University
sociology graduate student, said the
party was organized too late to
place candidates on November's
ballot, but that it is a political par
ty, not a drop out society.
"BASICALLY WHAT we're
committed to in Nebraska is
building a viable political move
ment," be said.
"The party accepts the electoral
process as a legitimate action,"
Sallach said. "We see electoral
politics as being one kind of force.
Given the unresponsiveness of the
political system now we can use
the electoral system to organize
around."
The party's first project is a
write-ic campaign to elect black
Omahaa Ernie Chambers to the
Omaha School Board.
Chambers ran in the school board
primary in May, but finished 13th,
one short of qualifying for can
didacy in the general election.
Sallach said the campaign is
community-wide, and will not be
limited to black Omaha.
THE PARTY held an organizaing
convention Aug. 24 in Omaha's
Fontanelle Park that drew 300
people, he added.
A second convention to elect
permanent officers will be held
Sept 29 in Lincoln. A place has
not been set, but it may be on
the University campus, Sallach
said.
Sallach said the Peace and
Freedom Party has supporters in
the black communities in Lincoln
and Omaha, on most of the college
campuses in the state and among
some farmers, but he would not
name a probable strength in
numbers.
Tom McCarthy, a field organizer
for the NationalPeace and Freedom
Movement spent the s n m m
working in the state. McCarthy,
from San Francisco, works
the national Peace and Freedom
Office in Ann Arbor, Mich.
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Peace and Freedom partisans
who met in convention in Ann Ar
bor in August nominated Eldrige
Cleaver for President, but left a
vice presidential choice to the in
dividual states.
Two University students, Dave
Bunnell and John Hughes have an
nounced an organizational meeting
of Nebraska Students for Peace and
Freedom that will be held Monday
at 8 p.m. in the Nebraska Union.
Hughes was president of the fail
ing Students for a Democratic
Society last year.
THE CAMPUS organization is
planned as an affiliate of the state
party and will work jointly with
it, Bunnell said.
Sallach said he hopes to find
campus people who will work on
the Chambers campaign. An open
campaign planning meeting for
Chambers will be held Saturday
at 2 p.m. at 3001 S. St
THE OTHER members of the
Peace and Freedom steering com
mittee are, Thane Croston,
University student Dave Bunnell,
University student, Charyl Van
Riper, Univeristy student, David
Davies, University of Chicago stu
dent, Omaha native James
Grigsby , minister of information
for the Omaha Black Panthers, and
Tom Windham, a Lincoln man.
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Group plants protection
trees
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by John Dvorak
Senior Staff Writer
Concerned students are going out
on a limb attempting to prevent
the "rape" of one of the last shad
ed, grassy havens on campus.
Some of the trees will be
destroyed when construction begins
early next week on the Sculpture
Gardens, according to Kent
Abraham an architecture student.
A large number of architecture,
art and music students are
disenchanted with the idea of
removing the trees, Abrahams said
Thursday.
THE AREA, lying between
Architecture Hall, Sheldon Art
Gallery, and the Music Building,
is one of the last havens of grass,
trees and natural beauty,
Abrahams continued.
Students can be seen lounging in
the area, studying or eating lunch.
Art students spend a lot of time
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expects no trouble
University students and members
of the Lincoln Committee of one
thousand are planning a candlelight
protest of the Nebraska American
Independent Party convention in
Grand Island Saturday night
The organizers expect about 100
people to join them in a memorial
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Facilities for showering and dressing at the new Abel-Sandoz swimming pool are cur
rently being designed. Sophomore Carol Moseman, Oakland, Neb., (foreground) is one of
first swimming suit-ers in the pool, designed for use by 100 people at capacity.
ceremony to "slain freedom
fighters." The ceremony will be
held in front of the midtown Holi
day Inn convention site.
FORMER ALABAMA Gov.
George Wallace, the party's pro
bable nominee for president, is not
expected to attend the convention.
Wallace was booed by 200 to 300
college and high school students
and clergy at the party's organiza
tional convention in Omaha last
March.
The convention and accompany
ing violence touched off two nights
of unrest in Omaha's northside.
Grand Island Police Chief
Michael Gephardt said he has
made no extra security ar
rangements for the convention. He
said he had not heard about the
memorial tervice. '
"To tell yon the truth," Gephardt
said, "I didn't think I'd need
anybody extra since Wallace isn't
coming."
John Dietz, chief student
organizer of the protest, said a
group of Grand Island citizens who
sponsored a memorial march for
Martin Luther King last spring w'll
take part in the Saturday
memorial.
Dietz said the Rev. Velton Ran
dall of Lincoln's Quinn Chapel
AME, 1225 S. 9th St., will lead a
short prayer service.
University students who will
participate in the memorial will
meet at 5 p.m. on the 15th St.
Mall between Q and R St. The
convention begins at 8 p.m.
in the area on assignments. Even
classes are occasionally conducted
under the shade of trees that may
be gone in less than a week,
Abrahams said.
As of Thursday evening, the op
position was mostly unorganized.
Before and after Saturday's
football game, however, an easel
will be placed in the area
explaining what is going to happen.
Passers-by will be asked to sign
a petition opposing the tree
removal, according to Glenn Nees,
another concerned student and an
ASUN senator from the college of
Engineering and Architecture.
If all other measures fail. Nees
said that students will gather in
rings around the trees, thus
preventing anyone from removing
the trees.
There are enough concerned
architecture students alone to
physically prevent removal of the
trees, Nees said Thursday afternoon.
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Anti-prejudice rule reduces
off-campus housing list
by Jim Evinger
Senior Writer
The University approved off.
campus housing list has been
"reduced substantially" because of
a new anti-discrimination policy,
according to Housing Director
Edward Bryan.
Beginning at the start of the past
summer, all approved landlords
were required to sign a statement
agreeing to new regulations.
Many landlords took it "almost
like a slap in the face," he said.
"Some landlords, especially those
with whom we have had excellent
working relations, felt we violated
a trust," Bryan said.
In Bryan's opinion, the
statements have not helped
University-community relations at
all. "We are not real sure if we
have helped the students either,"
he said.
The statements were mailed to
all approved landlords early in the
summer, Bryan continued. Early
in August, the housing department
had received only about one in four
back, he said.
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ANOTHER LETTER was then
sent to landlords re-explaining the
situation, according to Bryan. The
second letter stated that the
landlords would loose their ap
proved listing if they did not sign
the statement.
Bryan estimated that about 40
per cent of the landlords had
returned the signed statements.
Those who did not return the letter
were removed from the approved
list.
Response from landlords, even
those who did sign the statement,
has been negative, Bryan declared.
To be approved, landlords must
agree to the following regulations.
That they will rent to all
students and members of the
University community regardless
of religion, race or national origin.
That the facilities meet and are
maintained in accordance with
minimum standards as established
by the University of Nebraska
code.
That the facilities will be opened
for inspection for officers of the
University.
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