The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, October 11, 1968, Image 1

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Friday, October 11, 1968
Vol. 92, No. 18
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Shouts and denunciations rang
from Hyde Park Thursday as topics
ranged from the ROTC program
to a pro and con debate on Fidel
Castro.
The three-hour long session
featured a verbal blasting by
freshman Elbert Hill on
discrimination at the University.
The usually peaceful discussion
turned into more than one shouting
match as Hyde Park wore on.
THURSDAY'S MEETING of stu
dent opionion opened with a plea
to "Keep Biafrans Alive."
Stu Frohm, publicity chairman
of the Committee to Keep Biafrans
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by George Kaufman
Senior Staff Writer
Women apparently take a much
more positive view of the job of
student assistant than do their male
counterparts.
Female SA's were mostly quite
unwilling to discuss the serious
problems perhaps because they
seem to have less problems of a
serious nature than do males;
perhaps just because they are
simply unwilling to discuss it
frankly.
Females seem more prone to
discuss being friends with the
residents, counseling new students
and being an all-around social
director for their floor than drink
ing problems and marijuana.
THE PROBLEMS most brought
out by women are untangling floor
factions (cliques), orienting fresh
men girls and new students, and
Female SA's apt to discuss
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Alive, said Mayor Sam
Schwartzkopf will sign a proclama
tion for "Keep Biafrans Alive Day"
Friday afternoon. Saturday will be
the designated day, he said.
About $500 has been raised by
the committee thus far, he said,
mostly through the contributions
booth in the Union lobby.
Larry Pettit of the Nebraska
Draft Resistance movement spoke
on that organization's workings and
purposes.
He said that the movement did
not have a strict ideological basis.
It is there to help those who are
discrimination.
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acting as catalyst for a floor gov
ernment
One graduate assistant at Pound
Hall puts it this way: "Your first
'job' is just being a person . . .
and sometimes I wish the SA signs
weren't on the door."
Asked if graduate students need
a student assistant as much as
undergrads, the same SA replied,
"More so . . . they're more catty,
more cruel and in some ways more
infantile."
"I've been called 'mother' by
some freshmen", said another
Pound student assistant. Many SA's
report that they are often a sort
of 'mother symbol' for new coeds.
One SA typified the difference
between freshman and up
perclassmen by telling of the time
a freshman resident looked up at
less serious problems.
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concerned with any aspect of the
draft, he said.
There is now an office in the
basement of the United Ministries
of Higher Education and he urged
concerned students to make use of
e services.
JOE BUTLER, a member of the
administration, spoke on the issue
of student involvement. He said he
thought that last week's march to
city hall was a good thing and con
gratulated Dan Looker on his
work.
"However, I don't want to praise
you all too highly," he continued.
"There is a place to hide in a
crowd and 500 people provide a
certain measure of anonymity. I
Drawing national news media
Gridiron
by Randy York
Assistant Sports Editor
Saturday's Memorial Stadium
occupants will view one of the
country's top-billed college football
games.
News coverage of the Husker
Jayhawk conflict is likely to be
the best Nebraska has received in
some time, according to Don
Bryant, sports information direc
tor. The game will be filmed by
ABC-TV for inclusion in the Sunday
NCAA College Football Highlights
show.
AND IF Sports Illustrated has
a Nebraska accent to it next week,
don't be surprised. A three-man SI
writing team headed by football
editor Ray Cabe will cover the
game as well as a photo crew from
the magazine. Even the Wall Street
Journal will be represented in
Nebraska's $500,000 press facility.
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EDITOR'S NOTE This is the
second of a two-part analysis on
student assistants in the
University's dorms. The first dealt
with SA's in male dorms. This will
explore the distaff side of the
question. The writer interviewed
over two dozen female SA's, who
requested their names not be
used.
her and asked, "Do you get paid
for looking after us?"
Another SA put her role this way:
"(An SA) . . . should be the one
person who has rapport with all
39 students, so that if someone has
no other friend on the floor, the
SA is one."
Added another, "Suddenly I've
got 38 new friends."
SOME MALE SA's in the past
have resigned their jobs because
they didn't believe they could carry
out administration policy. "I just
can't picture a girl SA doing this."
responded one female SA when told
this. "I don't know why, I just
can't."
"Because we're chicken," quip
ped another.
She was joking, but there seems
to bs an honest difference between
the way males and females look
at their jobs.
The females are much less prone
to the soul-searching which is
typical among male SA's. The
women disregard their role as
policeman for the administration as
a very minor and inconsequential
part of the job.
"I don't think the administration
Is psking me to be a policeman,
just responsible," said one second
year SA. "Well always be
policemen to lome students,"
remarked another. "It depends on
how the students want to act."
Another pointed out that they
were not being asked to do
anything more than any other con
scientious citizen of the state and
country.
One thing many SA's are agreed
upon is that the image and the
role of the SA and, especially,
Resident Doctors, have changed
a great deal even since most of
them started college.
"I THINK the attitude of the ad
ministration is changing," said an
SA at Sandoz Hall. "They're hiring
younger RD's, carrying out more
orientation and seemingly setting
up an atmosphere in which the
students may soon assume more
of the responsibility of running
their dorms."
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ion't think that John Dietz is more
of a man standing alone than all
of you 500 together."
He continued that it was time
for students who did something as
a group last Thursday to do
something on their own.
"There are Negro and foreign
students on this campus who are
lonely," he said. "If you really
believe in what you marched for
last week, you will go out of your
way to make personal contact with
these people."
DAVID BUNNELL of the Peace
and Freedom Party asked the
question, "How many of you are
giants
"The scout report scares me
every time I hear it," said Coach
Bob Devaney, "so this week I'm
turning the game over to the as
sistant coaches.
"Paul Rogers (Husker kicker)
and I will work a little," he quip
ped, "just in case we're needed."
The Huskers should be at full
strength for the Big Eight
showdown with the probable ex
ception of split end and co-captain
Tom Penney, who is nursing a collar-bone
fracture. His status is
listed as doubtful.
The game, matching the only two
unbeaten teams in the conference,
is a complete sellout. Kansas'
delegation is expected to be 5,500.
The collision also pits K U
quarterback Bobby Douglass, 1967
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Budget request to
by Jim Evinger
Senior Writer
University officials are expected
to make public Monday their Leg
islative budget request for the
next biennium, according to a
University spokesman.
The budget proposal is expected
to be announced at the Board of
Regents meeting Monday at 11
a.m.
The University informed the
Nebraska Department of
Administrative Serivces in Sep
tember that without adding a single
person to the institution's Lincoln-Omaha-outstate
work forces from
July 1, 1969, to June 30, 1971, and
allowing for the average 9 per cent
annual salary increases, the
Legislature will be asked to in
crease appropriations by $19.2
million.
THIS FACTOR would raise the
last biennium appropriation of
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fed up with the tin soldiers walking
around the campus?"
He continued that he didn't like
the idea of academic credit being
given for ROTC courses and plan
ned to do something about it. A
meeting to consider this topic will
be next Monday at 8 p.m. and he
urged "anyone interested to at
tend. "Time-Out", a national day of
student concern, was explained by
ASUN president Craig Dreeszen.
He explained that the National
Student Association and ASUN are
sponsoring this day of student in
volvement programs on Oct. 29.
He said that ASUN is urging the
faculty to call off their classes on
to square off
Big Eight Player of the Year, and
Nebraska's two quarterback stan
douts, Ernie Sigler and Frank
Patrick. Sigler is the best percen
tage passer in the league and
Patrick topped the conference in
passing a year ago.
The Jayhawks bring the nation's
top-scoring college football team
into Lincoln, having piled up 153
points in three convincing vic
tories. "KANSAS is a very impressive
football team, certainly the most
explosive team we've seen around
the Big Eight for quite some time,"
said NU Assistant Coach Cletus
Fischer who scouted the 'Hawks
against Indiana.
Nebraska owns victories over
Wyoming, Utah, and Minnesota
while Kansas has frolicked to wins
over Illinois, Indiana, and New
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$67,883,332 to $87,151,562, which is
still far from the total NU budget
request.
Figured in will be budgets
reflecting enrollment increases on
Lincoln and Omaha campuses,
proposed new programs, improve
ment of current programs, in
creased general operating costs,
capital expenditures and capital
construction.
Another factor will be about a
5 per cent inflation figure.
The University's budget request
puts iuto sharp focus the money
problems facing Gov. Norbert T.
Tiemann and the Legislature which
convenes in January.
During the current biennium,
state aid to education is paid once
and takes about $25 million of the
$268 million general fund.
In the upcoming biennium there
are expected to be two $25 million
that day so that students will be
Free to attend the several programs
that will be taking place.
Teachers who will not call off
class are urged to spend their class
periods discussing the war, educa
tion, or some other issue of broad
nterest.
"The program," he continued,
"is concerned with how to get the
individual student 'turned on' and
interested in what is happening
around him."
The "double-standard," draft
csistance, racial equality, and
linguistic semantics rounded out
the remainer of the discussion at
the longest Hyde Park ever held.
Mexico.
Among the top scribes in the
Midlands covering the clash are
Charlie Smith of the Topeka
Capital, Bill Sims of the Kansas
City Star, Sports Editor Leighton
Housch of the Des Moines Register,
Max Seibel of the Wichita Eagle,
Bill Beck of the St. Louis Post
Dispatch. The Des Moines Register and the
Kansas City Star also will fly in
photo teams. Seven radio stations
will broadcast the event. Bryant
reports that 300 persons will be
involved with the press-radio-TV-coverage.
The Huskers have been winding
up for a Kansas rematch for a
year now since absorbing a 10-0
loss in 1967.
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Regents
payments to state education unless
the Legislature deems it necessary
to cut back the level of dollar
assistance to public schools.
Also in the biennium ahead will
be two years of state aid payments
to cities and counties cositng about
$10 million per year. Currently $10
million of aid is paid for only one
year in the biennium.
THE DOUBLING of state aid is
being asked by municipal
authorities who say the state should
assume a greater share of local
government financing, placing
emphasis on fire and police protec
tion. The $19.2 million requested by
the University, the $25 million in
crease for state aid to schools and
the $10 million increase in state
aid to cities and counties combines
to over $54 million more being
sought from the Legislature.
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