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Husker spirit ignites week-long fire
A Big Red pep rally marked the beginning of the week-long Sammie bonfire, a spirit generator for
this weekend's game with Missouri.
sport finds Columbia
administrators to blame
New York (CPS) -The
Cox Commission, appointed
by the Columbia University
faculty to study last spring's
disorders there, issued its
report last weekend, predic
tably allowing that all parties
to the dispute were to blame
for the violence that erupted
co two occasions.
it
la a 222-page report, com'
piled fro a interviews
testimony and evidence
gathered during the summer
months, the five-member
commission laid re
sponsibility f or the c a m p u s
disorders largely at the door
' of an administration which it
said "too often conveyed an
attitude of authoritarianism
and mistrust"
THE REPORT calls the
quality of student life at Col
umbia "inferior in living
conditions and personal
associations," and says the
spring rebellion gained deep
and wide-spread support from
students because of their
"deep-seated and relatively
unfocused dissatisfaction with
the university."
Both students and faculty
members, according to
Harvard University law pro
fessor Archibald Cox, who
wrote most of the report.
have tried and failed to find
a meaningful voice in the
university because of the
authoritarianism and indif
ference of administrators like
President Grayson Kirk and
those who worked under him.
The university also showed
"indifference about its in
volvement in the two issues
that arouse the deepest emo
tions of students: peace and
racial justice,' the report
asserted. (The University's
involvement with the Institute
for Defense Analysis and its
expansion into and control of
its ghetto neighborhood were
the specific issues that pro
mpted the student strike and
takeover of buildings.)
Faculty members also had
so voice to air grievances
Tennis clinic set
to collect money
for Biafra fund
A tennis clinic and exhibi
tion match to raise funds for
starving Eiafrans wiU be held
at 7 p.m. Thursday at Woods
Park 33rd and 0 Streets)
tennis courts.
The" matches wCl be held
1n cscjunction with the
Nebraska state high school
tennis tournament set for
Thursday and Friday on the
University tennis courts.
Rudolpn Nah Roberts,
coadiand captain of the
Lilicrlan Davis Cop team, will
contact the event and play
an exhibition match against
K2 - North, 1957 Nebraska
stats tennis champion.
within the university; no
faculty senate has ever ex
isted at Colombia, and the
first all-faculty meeting in the
school's recent history was
the one which appointed the
Cox Commission.
While Cox said students had
in some cases provoked the
police, and that violence was
probably unavoidable under
the conditions on the campus,
the report said "student
behavior was in no way com
mensurate with the brutality,
and did not excuse or even
mitigate the blame resting on
the police."
"A layman," the com
mission said, ' can see no
justification for the brutality
unless it be that the way to
restore order in a riot is to
terrorize civilians."
THE REPORT does not
condemn the use of police
force in quelling the students,
however. It merely blames
the university for waiting so
long to use it (believing that
if police had been called six
days earlier in April most of
the blood and violence would
have been avoided) and for
believing the assurances of
police officials that there
would be lira violence.
There is grave danger,'
the report said, of exag
gerating the willingness and
ability of a police force to
take effective action against
many hundreds in a time of
intense emotion w i t h o n t
resorting to violence."
As for the students, the
commission condemned the
"disruptive tactics" of the
militant leftists, although it
Tsccrcd their reasons for
discontent with Columbia's
administration. Philosophiz
ing that the university's
purpose is to search for truth
through the use of reason, it
said "resorting to violence or
physical harrsBsment o r
obstruction" is an unaccep
table tactic for influencing
decisions inauniversity
community. "Literally the
survival of the free university
depends on the community's
rejection of disruptive
demonstrations," the report
concluded.
The report ridiculed the
accusation mat the student
revolt was the result of a
world or nationwide con
spiracy e f revolutionary
students. Although the core of
demonstrators who began the
protest may have had major
revolution in mind and been
part of a bigger plan through
SDS or some other student
organization, the commission
said, its interviews- and
testimony indicated thnt "the
grievances of the rebels were
felt equally by a large
number, probably a majority,
of students.
By its final days," the
report contends, "the revolt
enjoyed both wide and deep
support among the students
and junior . faculty and in
lesser degree among the
senior professors . . . The
trauma of the violence that
followed police intervention
intensified emotions, but
broad support for the
demonstrators rested upon
broad discontent and
widespread sympathy for
their position."
The report's conclusion was
a hopeful one that if
students were given a
significant voice in university
affairs, the need for protests
like last spring's would
disappear and the university
might become a place to live
and learn in again.
The commission thinks
students who had a part in
the decision-matting of the
university would "acquire a
more sophisticated un
derstanding of the
university's difficulties and
complexities," and become
more sympathetic with "the
necessary functions" of the
administration and governing
body. .
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Union Public Relations Com
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Student Affairs Full Senate
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Union Talks & Topics Com
muted
4:30 p.m.
YWCA Christmas Bazaar
Builders Student Founda
tion Comm
Builders First Glance
YWCA Tutorial Committee
Union Hospitality Committee
Seminar on the "Disad
vantaged Child", Wesley
foundation
5:30 p.m.
Toastmasters Club
6:30 pm
Red Cross
Phi Oil Theta
Tassels Corn Cobs
Homecoming Queen
Interviews
7 p.m
Builders
IFC
ASUN Special Projects
Comm. KK Gamma
Orchesis, Women's P J2 Bldg
7:30 pm
Comenius Club
Circle K
Mathematics Counselors i
8pm.
N.HH.R.F. Development
Project
9 p.m.
Mortar Board
Fellowship of Christian
Athletes
EAST UNION
7 a.m.
Homemakers Day .
4 p.m.
Campus Life Comm. i
4:30 p.m.
Builders Trs. j
7 pjn.
Recreation Comm
Andy Backer, as Sam, and Don Sobolic, as Max, try to straighten out
problems arising in their North London home, as portrayed in "The Home-,
coming." The play will open the University Theatre's 4968 season
Wednesday night.
University Housing Committee
adds three student members
The University Hooting
policy committee begins its
second year of discussion and
action in its charge by the
Board of Regents to stimulate
and initiate policy regarding
programs in housing, ac
cording to M. Edward Bryan,
director of housing.
FIVE FACULTY members
are beginning a three year
Teachers College
advisers named
Adviser assignments for
freshmen and transfer
students in Teachers . College
are posted on the bulletin
board on the first floor of the
Teachers College building,
according to assistant dean
Norman Thorpe of Teachers
College.
term. They are Mrs. Jayne
Anderson, assistant in student
affairs; M. Edward Bryan,
director of housing; Dr.
Franklin E. Eldrldge, direc
tor of resident instruction in
the college of Agriculture and
Home Economics; Dr.
Wendell L. Gaogker,
chairman of botany depart
ment; Dr. Robert L. Hough,
associate dean of Arts &
Sciences. j
Newly appointed to this
committee by ASUN presi
dent and approved by the
student senate are three
students who will serve on the
committee. They are Cheryl
Tritt, Jim Ludwig, and Bill
Gilpin.
"Initially, attention will be
focused en the programming
in residence haSs as it relates
to student life and meaningful
experiences for personal
development," Bryan said. ;
The concept of the housing
committee emerged from
the ad hoc committee on
housing in the spring if 1967
and came into being through
action by the Board of
Regents on June 2, 1967. ;
"The purpose of the
University Housing policy
committee is to stimulate and
initiate policy regarding pro
grams in housing and to
recommend housing policy
changes," Bryan said.
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