The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, November 20, 1968, Image 1
1 ,"'.T.tS!w rrr tin i WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1968 LINCOLN, NEBRASKA Vot. 92, No. 40 airs control Bill ' The aff 1 i f 6 3 by Jim Evinger Nebraskan Staff Writer A government bill that would be a first step in the implementation of 6tudent control over student af fairs will be introduced in student Senate Wednesday. Sponsoring senators arrived at an apparent concensus Tuesday con cerning the wording of the proposed government bill. THE BILL would have the Faculty Senate set in motion a process for considering what structural changes are needed to implement the principles and policies of the Student Academic Freedom document and the ASUN Bill of Rights, according to Senator Diane Theisen. The basic principle of student regulation of student concerns has been adopted by the University community in approval of the ASUN Bill of Rights and the Stu dent Academic Freedom document, Miss Theisen said. She said the bill would recognize this fact and enable the ASUN to enact legislation to bring this prin ciple into reality. Those senators in attendance discussed the bill informally Mon day and Tuesday afternoons. From the opinions expressed, the Senators supported the substantive nature of the bill. Discussion centered on categorial issues. THE WORDING of the bill as agreed to Tuesday for presenta tion Wednesday is included in this issue of the Daily Nebraskan. The bill is a policy declaration which states that "students should govern themselves and regulate their lives and interests democratically through ASUN." ASUN President Craig Dreeszen explained this is an expression of the legitimate perogatives of ASUN which does' not interfere with the powers of the University (Faculty) Senate or the Board of Regents. He said that it is the stated right of the students to coordinate stu dent activities and organizations, and to regulate all phases of stu dent life in non-academic affairs. DREESZEN referred to the ASUN constitution, the Student Academic .Freedom document adopted by the Regents, and tie ASUN Bill of Rights adopted by the Regents, as the basis for the claim to student self government. The Senators agreed the ASUN or its designee should be establishing all policies, rules and regulations governing student social and group life. Areas mentioned included publication, curfews and parietal regulations. It was also agreed that ASUN should assume original jurisdiction; power and responsibility of disciplinary pro cedures within these areas. . The bill is to be introduced in aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiinmiiiiiiiiimiHiim ' ; U;.f - A ' ! : -Hi I I " v ' ' ; "v J ' i ' t " 1 I ' ' i 'i ! r ,v " I ' ' ! 1 -1 ' f I ' - M J ; I - - , i I If "I I I ' jif.'j,..''b,2 -J ' . ' , , I ' ' i, ynvriSLii mc,- - c - ;;, " - ' - University, after the controversy, How does your garden grow? With Concrete walls and future malls, And bulldozers all in a row. Larry Eckholt i,inilHIIIIIIIIIIIII!lllim!ll!lllllllinilllllllllll!llllll!HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIH The ASUN figurehead ... No power in student governing by Larry Eckholt Nebraskan Staff Writer Three years ago a history pro cessor was a target of criticism because of his candid views of the University of Nebraska. "We are not a first rate University," said Dr. David Trask. "One of the first signs of a first class school is active student ac tion." TRASK IS no longer at this in stitution. He is now an ad- Part Two: A look at the goals of those Nebraska students who think that the University is due for many changes. ministrator at the University of New York at Stoneybrooke. But Trask's views are still shared by many persons associated with the University, many of them students who have tried to generate student activism. Student leaders are asking a share of the power structure. Whether in the form of a drive to lower the state's voting age, or a proposal to abolish women's hours, the philosophies behind the movements are cut from the same fabric. "STUDENTS, and for that mat ter, anyone between the ages of 18 and 23, want to be treated as adults," John Schrekinger, a leader in the young adult suffrage move ment, said. "But they are treated as children." Nearly everyone asked to define student power will add the phrase "right of self-determination," or ' a role in the affairs that concern their daily lives" to his definition. The figurhead of student power is supposed to be - ASUN, the governing body of the students of the University. "ASUN is the supreme governing body of the students," Kent Neumeister told the opening meeting of the Senate on Sept. 16, 1965. Student government had just been revamped, and Neumeister was its first president. "ASUN HASbeenbefuddIed into thinking that it is inherently powerful in years gone by," said Craig Dreeszen, current ASUN president. "The Senate fits somewhere into the power struc ture, but we are still searching for that place." Dreeszen reflected on a matter brought to the Senate two years ago by Athletic Department ticket manager Jim Pittenger. Pittenger had gone to ASUN to ask for Senate approval of a raise in the price of basketball tickets. The discussion continued, Dreeszen noted, until Senator Al Spangler asked Pittenger what would happen if the proposal was not approved by Housing student the students. Pittenger replied that the prices would still increase. "BUT THE SENATE continued the debate for nearly an hour," Dreeszen said. "It really points out the illusions ASUN has created for itself. We are nothing but an ad visory group with no inherent pow sr." Continued on page 4 Senate on Wednesday, to be automatically tabled. Dreeszen said he would call a special session of Senate for consideration of the bill sometime this week. HE SAID there is a time factor involved, explaining Student Senate action had to be immediate in order for the bill to be placed on the agenda for University (Faculty) Senate consideration. Dreeszen said he hoped University (Faculty) Senate would take action on the bill before February 12, 1969. This is to allow as much time as is available for Student Senate to pass supplemen tary legislation for implementation of student self government before the ASUN general elections in the spring. If the bill passes University Senate approval, it would go to the Board of Regents for final adoption. The issue of student control of student fees was a major point of concern. Senator Bruce Cochrane stated that ASUN should have a veto in the allocation of student Craig Dreeszen 'AT fees, but should not assume com plete responsibility for regulation of the fees. Continued on page 4 The following is the preliminary text of a govern ment bill scheduled to be presented in Student Senatt on Wednesday: The Association of Students of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln is "the supreme student governing body in the regulation and coordination of all phases of student self government . . ." And as stated in the constitution it is a function of ASUN as regards general welfare of students "to exercise any other powers necessary for the general welfare of the students." The Association of Students of the University of Nebraska hereby declares and sets forth the following Basic Policy Declaration. The ASUN Senate believes that without encroaching upon the legitimate preprogatives of such policy making bodies of the University as the University (Faculty) Senate and the Board of Regents, students should govern themselves and regulate their lives and interests democratically through ASUN. The ASUN Senate recognizes the intrinsic right of the student in a university community to hold the responsibility and to exercise the right to regulate himself and his affairs through his student government. The ASUN Senate deems it an infringement on those rights for an organ of the Administration or University Senate to impose rules, regulations, or restrictions on students' non-academic affairs without their conssnt, in. solely-student areas of concern. The ASUN Senate further deems it the basic right of students to coordinate student activities and organiza tions and to establish those regulations over student life which directly affect none other than students through the student government. The ASUN Senate further holds that it is the responsibility of the faculty and administration of a university to recognize the rights of tie students to regulate their own affairs. THEREFORE, be it enacted that the ASUN Senate calls upon the University (Faculty) Senate, to recognize the principles and expressions of rights contained within this policy statement as just and equitable, and to take appropriate actions and measures to withdraw the operations and cease the exercising of power by the University of Nebraska, particularly through the Student Affairs Committee, in opposition to the policies herewithin expressed. The ASUN Senate calls upon the University (Faculty) Senate, which has the authority to establish general policy with respect to the extracurricular activities of students, to delegate the powers and responsibilities to the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska in recognition of its right to handle solely-student affairs. If favorable action by the University Senate is not taken by February 12, 1969, this bill will go into effect at that time. 1 Be it further enacted that an all-campus referendum on this issue be held before February 11, 1969, and that a simple majority shall have binding effect on the ASUN Senate. director elicits aid m campaign Union series brings 'Queen of Jazz' Ella Fitzgerald, "the Queen of Jazz," will perfjrm at the Nebraska Theatre, Thursday at 8:00 p.m. Ella's songs range all the way from rhythm and novelty tunes to wistful ballads. Her honors include; Los Angeles Times "Woman of the Year" (1966), National Association of Television and Radio Announcers "Woman of the Year," Best Female Singer on Campus (College Poll-Billboard Magazine. 1967). ELLA FITZGERALD is sponsored by the Nebraska Union Music Committee and is one of the performers in the Nebraska Union Performing Artist Series. Others in the series include: Ravi Shankar, Byron Janis, P.D.Q. Bach and Ciro and his Flamenco Dance Company. Season tickets are $4.10 for the complete series; tickets are not sold for individual performances. They may be purchased in the Program Office, Room 1361, in the Union. by Julie Morris Nebraskan Staff Writer A slow but sure University cam paign to eradicate discrimination in the rental of Lincoln housing to students reaches the action stage this month. More than 1,500 students now renting from Lincoln landlords who have not signed an agreement to rent "without regard to race, religion or national origin," will be asked to take individual action, according to M. Edward Bryan. BRYAN, DIRECTOR of University Housing, said the students will receive a letter asking them to convince their landlords to sign the agreement or move out of the housing beginning second semester. Bryan said the letters will be sent out within the month. With the ac tion, he said, the University will be moving from stating a principle to asking for individual action in en forcing it. The anti-discrimination clause was incorporated in a new University householders' agree ment last spring as a result of ASUN action. The principle was approved by faculty and ad ministration and the agreements went out July 1. TO DATE, slightly more than half of the Lincoln landlords now renting to University students have signed and returned the agreements, Bryan said; The neglect of some 400 University-listed landlords to return the agreement led to an Oc tober student march protesting the landlords' policies and an ASUN petition drive. That drive is still in progress under the ASUN Human Rights Committee. Byran and Dan Looker, chairman of the ASUN Human Rights Com mittee, said Tuesday that the suc cess of the push to elinr'nale discrimination in rentals of off campus student housing now rests with the students who are violating the stated University policy. BRYAN SAID the University community expects these students to convince their landlords to sign the agreements or to move out se cond semester. Both Bryan and Looker said the further enforcement of the policy will be "a function of the tital University community." ' "If students stuck together about where they live," Looker said, ''landlords would have to make improvements and have open housing. The students shouldn't have to have the administration do this for them." BRYAN WOULD not say what specific action the University com munity would take against students who refuse to move out of ron-ap-proved off -campus housing. But he said, "The University has plenty of authority ad ministratively" to enfoics the policy. 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