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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1968
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
Vol. 92, No. 37
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Student members of the University Housing Policy Committee, from left, Jim Ludwig,
Cheryl Tritt and Bill Gilpin discuss their recommendation with M. Edward Bryan, director
of University housing.
New party drop-outs
Stray donkeys welcomed
by Larry Eckholt
Nebraskan Staff Writer
The shepherds of the Nebraska
Democratic Party are in the fields,
searching for strayed members of
the flock.
The newly-organized Nebraska
Democratic Coalition (NDC) will
welcome back members of the
party who turned to the Nebraska
New Party during the 1968 election
campaign, according to three
coalition spokesmen.
"MANY NEW party members
left the Democratic Party for
Student Senate passes resolution, 18-15,
condemning campus undercover agents
by Jim Pedersea
Nebraskan Staff Writer
Student Senate Wednesday pass
ed by a roll call vote of 18-15 a
resolution condemning student
undercover agents and requesting
the University to establish a
disciplinary policy for such agents.
Sen. Bob Zucker, who originally
proposed the resolution, accepted a
friendly amendment from Sen.
Larry Donat which provided that if
the agent is a "bonafide, full-time
student" he would be subject to
"disciplinary procedure in the
University community" rather
than mandatory suspension.
"I DONT feel that ASUN can ask
the University to make a man
d a t o r y disciplinary decision,"
Donat said. "The change in
wording gives the administration
more lee-way in administering
punishment."
The resolution states that tie
University does not condone un
dercover agents because it inhibits
57-year
by John Dvorak
Nebraskan Staff Writer
Like many typical students,
Bernard R. Gyger lives in a
dormitory and has a student foot
ball ticket but at 57 years, he may
be the oldest full time student at
tending the University.
Known as Barney throughout the
Omaha Public School System
where he has worked for the last 30
years, Gyger is attending NU for
the first time to complete work on
his Ph.D. in adult and cortinuing
education.
He lives in the experimental
graduate house in Selleck
Quadrangle and commutes weekly
to his home in Omaha where his
wife, also a teacher, lives.
"THE OLDER I get, the more I
don't know," Gyger said. Times are
changing so rapidly that a person
should actually go to school
periodically to keep abreast of new
developments.
"I find the University stimu
lating. I am able to do some
thinking and planning. I am able to
take a detached look at what I am
doing," he continued.
Gyger is happy to have the
privilege to be associated with
no exception
strong, emotional reasons," Bill
Campbell said. Campbell is a Uni
versity physics professor and was a
supporter of Eugene McCarthy for
President in the Nebraska May
primary.
"I sympathized with many of the
people who left the party,"
Campbell continued. "But I thought
I could work within the Democratic
Party to change it"
The Nebraska Democratic Coali
tion hopes that it will become an
instrument of change within the
party, lie said.
free inquiry, he added. At the same
time it does not provide a
sanctuary for illegal student action.
"If the authorities are going to
send undercover agents to the
University," he continued, "they
will have to send trained men
rather than hire students.
Sen. Suone Cotner then proposed
an amendment to the resolution
which read: "The ASUN Senate
condemns the hiring of undercover
agents except that said agent be
reporting illegal acts actually
observed."
BY THIS amendment, the
University could not punish a stu
dent for reporting an illegal act,
Miss Cotner said.
Sen. Bruce Cochrane added that .
the amendment would protect free
speech as well as provide for
punishment for illegal acts.
"There is an undue amount of
concern that the resolution will
protect illegal acts," Sen. Bill
Gilpin said. "By condemning spies,
old student shows education timeless
young people and to live in a
graduate dormitory. He likes to
meet new people, especially
refreshing young people-
"Students are generally a little
surprised to find out that I am a
University student," Gyger ex
plained. "But they soon find that I
am interested in them and that I
am a willing listener."
Fellow students share
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"WE WILL try to influence the
party in terms of issues, national
and local, by setting up an
organization which can com
municate with the various groups
within it," Campbell said.
He added that the coalition is not
to be mistaken as a splinter group,
but as a group of people who want
to "see what we can do for the
Democratic Party."
The coalition is sponsoring a
meeting in Omaha on Dec. 7 in
order to organize on a statewide
Senate is not condoning illegal ac
tion." THOSE responsible for
disciplining the unercover agents
have enough flexibility to use
discretion if a student has reported
an illegal act, Sen. Jerry Olson ad
ded. "The proponents of the resolution
will not admit that a student
reporting illegal action is an
undercover agent," Sen. Dave
Landis said. '"This amendment en
tails exactly what Sen. Zucker says
will happen if the resolution is put
into effect."
He added, that the resolution in
criminates a student doing his
moral duty.
ZUCKER REPLIED that the
federal government prohibits
wiretapping because of the means
of detecting crime, not to protect
the offenders.
This is analogous to the student
spy situation," he continued. "They
AN INTREGAL part of a college
is conversation and discussion
with fellow students and faculty,
Gyger feels.
Often, he can be seen chatting
with students in the Selleck
cafeteria. He has many conversa
tions with foreign students, since
Benton Hall, the experiment part
of Selleck, houses many foreign
students.
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campus atmosphere with Barney Gyger, one of NlTs oldest
by Julie Morris
Xcbraskan Staff Writer
Second semester implementation
of a liberalized on-campus housing
policy was recommended Wednes
day by the University Housing Po
licy Committee.
The committee's action must be
approved by Vice Chancellor G.
Robert Ross before the policy,
which requires only freshmen to
live on campus, will go into effect
If Ross does approve the com
mittee's recommendation, junior
women and sophomore men and
women now required to live on
campus will be able to move into
off-campus housing. Sophomores
could move into specially approved
housing, juniors into generally ap
proved housing.
THE COMMITTEE passed the
recommendation 7-0 with M.
Edward Bryan, director of
University Housing, not voting.
The recommendation will be
formally written and presented to
Ross next week, according to Bill
Gilpin the committee chairman.
The committee motion includes a
statement that the group will work
to solve problems in University
approval of off-campus housing for
all students.
If Ross approves implementation
back to
basis. The Nebraska group was
formed after a regional meeting in
Minneapolis earlier in the fall.
CAMPBELL STATED that there
has been little or no reaction from
the party "regulars" concerning
the organization of the coalition.
"But I think all were aware of
what was going in," he said, ad
ding that all party officials receiv
ed copies of the group's initial
newsletter.
One of the first jobs of the NDC
will be to discover how many peo-
cannot be justified. You do not have
to be a student spy to turn in an il
legal act."
MISS COTNER's amendment
was then defeated by a role call
vote of 16-15 with Sen. Fred
Boesiger sustaining.
Zucker reported that he had col
lected 1,600 student signatures in
support of the resolution in two
days. ,
"Any senator voting against the
resolution is failing to deal with a
relevant problem and ignoring the
will of the students of the
University," he added.
The Resolution was passed
with Senators Chris Seeman, Dave
Bingham, and Kent Boyer absent.
Eingham voted affirmatively by
proxy.
Zucker quickly introduced a se
cond resolution calling for the
Faculty Senate Committee on Stu
dent Affairs to implement the
undercover agent resolution.
It passed unanimously.
Students are really not much
different than when he was an
undergraduate. There are just
more of them, he said.
THE MAJOR problem for the
older-than-average returnee is
wondering if you can compete with
the younger students, most of
whom are very sharp, he continued.
of the policy, students who want to
move out of the dorms second
semester must clear their new liv
ing arrangements with the housing
office to assure that they've found
adequate, University-approved
housing.
SOPHOMORES WHO want to
move out of the dorms may have a
special problem, Bryan indicated,
because of the general lack of
specially-approved housing which
must, by University regulations:
have a qualified householder
living on the premises.
living units must be easily ac
cessible to the householder (garage
and isolated buildings would not be
approved).
supervision, contracting with
students and the day-to-day contact
and the discipline of the students
must be the responsibility of the
person living on the premises.
the householder must accept
the responsibility for being a com
munication link to the student from
the University.
multiple dwellings ac
comodating over 25 students are
not approvable.
single dwelling units are ac
ceptable if they offer an academic
atmosphere and the provision of
flock
pie share its views, according to
Tom Dean, a University law stu
dent and a McCarthy delegate to
the National Democratic Conven
tion. "THERE ARE large numbers of
people in Nebraska who have
similar viewpoints," he said. "But
many groups do not listen to each
other. We need to communicate
with all groups."
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"Things have changed since I
was an undergraduate," Gyger
said. "I took some sociology
courses years ago, but the
terminology is now different"
This problem is countered partly
by the older students' experience
and maturity, he said.
Gyger, a lifelong Nebraska resi
dent was raised on a ranch near
Chappell and began teaching in a
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constant availability of senior adult
consultation.
Bryan said he didn't know how
many vacant University specially
approved off-campus rooms there
are in the city.
The recommendation that the
liberalized policy be implemented
second semester originated with
the student members of the com
mittee, Gilpin, Cheryl Tritt and Jim
Ludwig. The students' action had
the support of ASUN.
If Ross approves implementation
of the policy, it is assumed that the
policy will continue in effect next
fall. But the Board of Regents'
guidelines attached to their ap
proval of the policy 18 months ago
make the continuing force of the
policy the decision of the office of
student affairs.
The Regents' approval of the
policy included the stipulation that
the dorms be full enough to allow
payment of the construction bond
debts on the buildings. The policy
could be retracted at the discretion
of Ross if it appeared that the
dorms wouldn't be full enough, ac
cording to the Regents' statement
of approval of the policy.
BRYAN TOLD the Housing
Policy Committee Wednesday that
a housing office survey of dorm
residents over the weekend showed
that only 134 residents would move
out second semester if the policy is
implemented.
But Bryan said he "would
assume that the number would be
larger than that" because students
would be reluctant to sign the list
showing their intention to move
"because it would indicate to the
people they are living with that
they were unhappy." The lists were
posted on dorm floors.
A student report on probable drop
in dorm occupancy if the policy is
implemented was 200.
Bryan said Wednesday that dorm
occupancy was at about the 96 per
cent level as of Nov. 1. He said
there are 106 vacancies in men's
dorms and 23 in the women's
dorms.
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rural school at 17.
He has attended Nebraska
Wesleyan. Pennsylvania State,
Omaha, Creighton, Colorado State
and Wisconsin Universities besides
NU. He has taught part time at
Omaha University.
He went to work for the Omaha
School System in 1938 as a
supervisor of trade and industrial
education. He became ad
ministrative assistant to the
superintendent of schools four
years ago. He is on sabbatical
leave from the Omaha System for
two semesters.
"I HAVE FOUND this year that
students ideas are really not so
radical as I thought They ask good
questions and they have a lot of
courage," he noted.
Gyger is a past president of the
Omaha Junior Chamber of Com
merce and is active in other civic
and professional functions. He is a
delegate to this year's National
Education Association convention.
People must participate in their
society, he thinks. Too often older
people become inflexible and
unwilling to try new things, be said.
"But I try to be active," he said.
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