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O oU n n era MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1968 Vol. 92, No. 27 ndents plan to renew The St fight Calls for student support of income tax Irey: the mos by Jim Pedersen Nebraskan Staff Writer If the state income tax is eliminated, education will be hurt the most, according to Randy Irey, Business Administration senior, who is organizing a student group to support the tax. "If Nebraska is going to attract people to live in the state," Irey said, "it must provide adequate services for its residents, and the Commission: 'Regents appointive' The Governor's Little Hoover Commission recommended last week that the Board of Regents be made an appointive office rather than elective. In a report to the governor on the organization of the executive branch of state government, the Commission recommended that the State Constitution be amended to permit gubernatorial appointments subject "to the advice and consent of the Legislature." THE COMMISSION stated that "the scope of the University has grown to the point where it is im practical to have an elected governing board. "The Regents should have ex ceptional quantifications in order to guide the direction of this multifaceted institution. The im pact that the University has on the state further makes it desirable that the governing body, the Regents, be responsive to the ex ecutive branch of state govern ment," the report states. The Commission based its recommendation on the fact that the current executive branch setup makes no provision for elected of ficials, including governor and lieutenant governor, to be of the same political party. IT ALSO said that those elected are under no compulsion to follow the same objectives. It included in its report the fact that the majority of the people working for the state are employed by the executive branch. The conclusion the report drew was that "the present organization of the executive branch is too cumbersome for effective or direct executive leadership and control." The suggestion that the Board of Regents be an appointive office was one of seven suggestions "designed to make administration and control of state government more effective and therefore more economical." U y ii y 'v f! it V i H 'education will suffer t with most important of the services is education." Irey, Ken Noha and Larry Anderson, are organizing the stu dent group to support the tax. Irey feels the most important function of the group now is to educate the public as to the importance of maintaining the present tax struc ture. "PEOPLE INHERENTLY don't want to pay taxes," Irey said Sun day. "If they don't pay the income tax, they are going to pay a ridiculously high sales tax." According to Irey, the drive on the University campus will be two pronged. First, to reach the student voter and persuade him to vote against Proposition No. 300. Second, to reach the student who is unable to vote but who can influence voters to support the income tax. "IF PROPOSITION No. 300 passes, the Unicameral will be prohibited from levying property and income taxes," he said. "The only thing left is to levy a 5 to 6 per cent sales tax, and this would directly affect students." One of the reasons that opponents of the income tax placed it on the ballot was to restrict state spending on education, mental hospitals and roads, Irey added. The present combination sales income tax provides for a deduc table $7 food credit. This credit is deducted from the state income tax and is designed to off-set sales tax payments on food. A FAMILY of four would receive a $28 reduction. Since the income National exhibition displayed in Union The 20th National Exhibition of Prints is now on display in the Union lobby and will remain there until Nov. 10, according to Union Culture Area Director Kathleen Simmons. The first National Exhibition of Prints was held by the Library of Congress in 1943 according to in formational material accompany ing the Exhibition. The original purpose of the exhibition was to bring contemporary print making to a broad audience. IT WAS also intended as a chance for the members of the Library's print buying committee to see work that might not otherwise come to its attention. The Exhibition was held annually for 18 years and switched to a biennial program in 1963. to liberalize by Julie Morris Nebraskan Staff Writer The student members of the University Housing Policy Com mittee begin an offensive this week to loosen Regent rules on stu dent housing. The students, Bill Gilpin, Jim Ludwig and Cheryl Tritt, will present to the committee a recom mendation calling for full im plementation second semester of a liberalized on-campus housing policy, Gilpin said. THE LIBERALIZED policy was written by students, faculty and administrators and approved by the Regents in June, 1967, but never fully implemented. If fully implemented, only iiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiniiiiiiiilliliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Editor's Note: This is the first of two stories on the University dorm itorieswho lives there, why they do, who builds the dorms and what they cost. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHH freshmen men and women would be required to live on campus. ASUN Senate unanimously pass ed a resolution almost a month ago requesting a policy committee . . . tax defeat' tax is 10 per cent of the federal in come tax, such a family would have to pay more than $280 in federal income taxes before it would pay any state taxes. If the family of 4 pays below $280 in federal taxes, they receive a re fund based on the food deduction minus the state income tax. "Such a tax structure is obvious ly a direct benefit to the low-income people of the state," Irey said. OPPONENTS of the income tax, according to Irey, say the tax is unfair because it is based on the federal income tax. They further assert that the elimination of the income tax would restrict state expenditues, he add ed. He said, "It is the legislature which makes decisions concerning spending, not the tax structure." THE EXACT wording of Pro position No. 300 as it appears on the ballot is: "Proposed amendment to the Constitution of the State of Nebraska, relating to taxation; to provide that the State of Nebraska, relating to taxation; to provide the the State of Nebraska shall be pro hibited from levying an income tax for state purposes. FOR the Amendment AGAINST the Amendment" A vote against the amendment will keep the income tax and a vote for the amendment will defeat the tax. IREY FEARS that the negative wording of the amendment, in The 72 prints in the collection were selected from over 1,300 sub mitted by 506 artists. They were judged only for excellence of printmaking. Prints of all types, moods, and methods of production are represented. THE JURY choosing the prints was composed of printmakers Jacob Landau and Rudy Pozatti as well as museum director and curator Mrs. Adelyn Breeskin. One print from each of them is included in the collection to give the public an example of the judges work. The Exhibition is first shown at the Library of Congress and is then circulated to college campuses, art galleries and municipal exhibition halls throughout the country. meeting to discuss implementation of the liberalized policy. Gilpin said he expects M. Edward Bryan, director of . University housing, to call a meeting this week. Bryan is a member of the committee. The students' recommendation will be accompanied by a student- M. Edward Bryan authored report giving reasons why the three believe the University can and should implement the liberalized policy. GILPIN SAID the students will also submit a recommendation calling for the formation of a student - faculty-administration committee having authority to recommend to the Regents when and where new dorms should be built. The students, all seniors, ap pointed to the committee this fall, have spent nearly two months relation to the income tax, will cause the loss of votes intended lo support the income tax. "The issue is clear-cut," he con cluded. Once the public has been educated as to the issue, people will vote against the amendment and thus for the income tax." Students interested in working to support the income tax are urged to attend an organizational meeting Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the ASUN of fice, he added. Mil NFU extends registration with over 700 signed up by John Dvorak Nebraskan Staff Writer With 700 students already signed up for Nebraska Free University courses this semester, registration has been extended through Tues day, according to NFU coordinator Jim Humlicek. Response so far has been ex cellent, Humlicek said, as registration for several courses has far exceeded expectations. Space in nearly all courses is still available, he continued. STUDENTS MAY sign up for any of the 50 NFU courses in the Starting from the nation's capitol, prints travel across the U.S. and make a brief visit in the Union lobby. housing working on their reports, Gilpin said. Five thousand two hundred men and women live in the University's 11 behive-like dormitories that form the jagged edges of the campus skyline. BY UNIVERSITY rules, the dorms are home for all non-Lincoln, unmarried freshmen, sophomore and junior women under 21 who are not sorority members. Senior women may live off campus with permission. Also by University rules, the dorms are home for all non-Lincoln, unmarried, freshmen and LIIIIIllllllIllflllllllflllllllllllfllJIIIltllElltlltllllllltllllillllllillllfttllllllllllJIIllllIMlIIIIIIIIllIllIIIUIIUlUlUIIIlIlS Tuesday's I 1:30 Mr. Wilbur Phillips, "The Futile Realities I Black Man", Union Ballroom 1 Panel: Splinter Politics lead by a Political Science I I Honorary, Room 332-334 Nebraska Union g 1 Films : Nebraska Draft Resistance, Union Small Audi- torium 5 "Time of the Locust", Sheldon Theatre 1:45 National Student Film Festival Winner's, Sheldon i Theatre 1 2:00 Experience '68 poetry, folk singing, dramatic reading, Main floor lounge, Nebraska Union i 2:30 Paul Lautner, National Director of "Resist", Assoc. I Professor at Antioch, Union Ballroom R. Duane Ferre, former Lt. in the Air Force, Union Ballroom Urban Crisis panel, Union Small Auditorium 3:30 Group Discussion: Racism, lead by Tom Windham, Black professor from Wesleyan, Room 332-334 Union Panel on the partisan legislature including Sen. Roland Luedtke and Sen. Gene Mahoney, Room 235 g I Union I Panel: Centennial College including Dr. Robert Knoll, Kurt Donaldson and Dr. William Torrence, South Con- ference Room of Union Hyde Park: Editorial Freedom, led by Jack Todd, I Editor of the Daily Nebraskan, main lounge of Union 1 4:3Q--Clair Callan and Bruce Hamilton, Union Ballroom I Panel on Draft Resistance, South Conference room j of Union 6:30 Ernie Chambers, write in candidate for Omaha I School Board, Union Ballroom Women's Rights panel including Maggie Young and g Barb Taras, North Conference Room of Union g I 7:30 University expansion into Malone Area including i g George Hancock, NU purchasing agent, and Ann Duncan I member of Afro-American Collegiate Association, Union g Small Auditorium 1 8:30 Film: Columbia Revolt, Sheldon Theater EE 3 a iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiniiiiniiiiiiuiiniiinuiiiiiinunuininuiiniiiiiiiiiinniniiiiiiiiiiiiiniiuiiiiiuniiuiiinii Nebraska Union during the addi tional two days. Three NFU courses will center on racism, race problems and black history. "Have You Seen Behind the Hilton, Mr. Brown?" will en courage involvement rather than simply reading and discussing race problems, according to one of the course leaders, Dan Looker, chairman of the ASUN Human Rights Committee. MEMBERS of the course may travel to various agencies in the Lincoln area, Looker said. Trips to & y ft- s ,. 'ijwwm? V policy sophomore men under 21 who are not fraternity members or pledges. Dorm residents form a signifi cant proportion of the student population on the Lincoln cam puses: one-third of all un dergraduate and graduate women and slightly less than one-fifth of all undergraduate and graduate men, according to the fall housing report of the University Housing Office. MORE THAN half of the dorm residents are required by University policy to live on campus according to the report, issued Oct. 11 and considered a partial listing. Continued on page 4 'Time Out' attorney at law of American Politics for the 5 the Lincoln Action Program, to city jails and the state penitentiary are tenitively planned, he said. Negro history from pre-slavery days until the present revolution will be considered in a course led by J. L. Butler, assistant in student affairs. "WE WILL attempt to present the black contributions to society," Butler said. "We will try to present youth with a sense of identity." "One race needs this type of course as much as another," Butler continued. In many cases, whites are not aware of Negro contribu tions to history, he said. "Experiments in Race" will at tempt to encourage self-realization in Black and White identity. The course will be led by a seven member teaching team, coordinated by the Rev. Hudson B. Phillips. TEACHING TECHNIQUES in the course will be designed to promote mutual exploration of the problems of being an individual during a time of mass movements. Besides the three courses on race problems, Humlicek mentioned several other especially interesting courses. Ayn Rand, a popular philosopher, will be read and discussed in one course. AYN RAND is not a particularly good philosopher, Humlicek said. But her philosophy is widely read and merits con sideration because of her populari ty. "The Draft and You" will be taught by members of the Nebraska Draft Resistance Move ment. The philosophy of resistance, alternatives to the draft and the best course of action for individuals will be considered. m t, ' s I- 4 r I i I " " ;! ' I, I " I t r- i 1 1 - 1 1 2 i
