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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1968
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
VOL. 92, NO. 45
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Philosopher Michael Novak expresses revolutionary views
on American life.
Equal rights
leader will
speak tonite
The Afro-American Student So
ciety and the NAACP are sponsor
ing William H. Booth, chairman of
the New York City Commission on
Human Rights, Friday evening in
the Nebraska Union, according to
Patrick Welles, NAACP local chap
ter president.
Booth, appointed by Mayor John
Lindsay in 1966, will speak at 8
William II.
Booth
p.m., according to Welles, acting
chairman of the department of
pharmacology. Admission is $1 for
adults.
Under Booth's leadership, the
Human Rights Commission has
been an instrument for enforcing
New York City's anti-liscrimina-tion
laws and a force in the com
munity for equal right for all
people.
He also serves New York as
chairman of the Jamaica, Corona
and Queens branches of the May
or's Urban Action Task force and
is on the National Board of Direc
tors of the NAACP. He has a de
gree from the New York Univer
sity Law School.
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Husker hoopers hope to net wins
as team courts Oregon matches
Nebraska's basketball team
swings west this weekend for tests
against Oregon State at Corvallis
Friday night and against Oregon at
Eugene Saturday night.
The Huskers last week opened
their season with a 68-55 home
court win over Wisconsin. The
Badgers, however, bounced back
Tuesday to upset pre-season Big
Eight favorite Kansas, fourth
ranked nationally.
NEBRASKA coach Joe Cipriano
said Wednesday he would start the
same cast as in the opener Jim
Brooks at center, Tom Bryan and
Bob Gratopp at forwards and Tom
Scantlebury and Norm Stewart at
guards. Center Leroy CLalk and
guard Sam Martin are slated for
It only takes one more threat .
Arts and
by John Dvorak
Nebraskan Staff Writer
One more bomb threat which in
terrupts a classroom situation in
the College of Arts and Sciences
may mean unannounced hour ex
ams for the rest of the semester.
"We will let this information
filter down through the student
body for a week or so before taking
any more action," Dr. Walter H.
Bruning, assistant dean of Arts and
Sciences, said Thursday after
noon. If threats persist, he will
"strongly recommend" to all Arts
and Sciences department chairman
that a policy of unannounced exams
go into effect immediately.
BRUNING SAID that such a
memo, if sent, would only be a
strong suggestion. It would not be
binding on the various
departments. Bruning empahsized several
times that unannounced hour ex
aminations are unfair to the hun
dreds of sincere students who are
Involved. "But what can we do?"
One note concerning bomb
threats was sent to department
chairmen last October 15, right
after the social sciences building
was evacuated postponing two
undergraduate exams involving
hundreds of students, he said.
The memo suggested the idea of
unannounced exams and several
early duty, Cipriano said.
Bryan, a sophomore, 1 e d
Nebraska's scoring against Wisco
nsin with 15 points while Gratopp
and Brooks deposited 14 and 12,
respectively.
Oregon State successfully
launched its season with a 10-point
triumph over San Francisco while
Oregon subdued Utah by 17 points
in its debut.
"This will be a fine early season
test for our young team," Cipriano
said. "Both are good teams, and we
will have to show some real im
provement if we are going to be
able to do well on the coast."
OREGON STATE coach Paul
Valenti's Beavers, who posted a 12
13 record las', season, returns Vince
by Julie Morris
Nebraskan Staff Writer
A philosopher in mod tie and
sideburns told students in a
Nebraska Union address Thursday
that they are victims of an educa
tional system with a top priority to
"prepare people for life in a
capitalist ghetto."
Michael Novak said, "The most
sneaky control has been exerted
over your minds and you didn't
even know it. It has been exerted
because you're being kept in school
and you've acquiesed in being put
to sleep."
Novak's appearance was
sponsored jointly by the Union
Talks and Topics Committee and
the Association of Campus
Pas tors.
A CATHOLIC theologian, Novak
is the author of a number of books
including "Belief and Unbelief,"
and is also a contributor to "The
New Republic." He is chairman of
the Common Humanities seminar
at the experimental Long Island
campus of the State University of
New York.
American education, Novak said,
is designed to "trim people as
neatly as possible so they'll fit in
with the machines."
Education, he said, does not
speak to man as an emotional or a
sexual animal, but as a workpiece
to be cut on the dotted lines.
"IT'S NOT terribly important, tn
this society, that you have an inte
resting sex life, if fact that's rather
a liability," he said. "What's im
portant is that you be a booster."
Novak said Americans are un
comfortable with the term revolu
tion and that they feel helpless
about their society.
Society is geared to "keeping
in line with the machines," he said,
"Even if you want to protest you
don't know where to go."
HE SAID Americans are hung-up
with helplessness because of an out-of-control
technology. "We are
taught that because progress is our
most important product that
everything new is good, but maybe
that isn't rue."
Americans also feel helpless
because their communications
media, particularly television, are
so vast they are victims of it Novak
said.
Sciences
other possibilities to cease bombing
threats.
Soon after, the chemistry
department began giving exams
with no previous notice. No
chemistry exam has been bothered
since, said Bruning, who is also an
assistant professor of chemistry.
TEACHER REACTION to that
policy has been natural, he said.
Teachers are unhappy but realize
that something must be done to
allow them to continue class work
unimpeded.
"The students are quite unhappy
too," Bruning said. "And if I was a
student I would be angry too."
In most cases, bomb threats are
called in by students unprepared to
take an examination, he said.
These students are trying to buy a
week of time. They don't realize the
havoc they cause, he said.
Entire buildings, involving
several departments and
sometimes several colleges are
shut down. Evacuations are
especially serious in chemistry
classes where delicate experiments
requiring constant attention are
underway.
"Just the danger of a broken leg
sustained while students hurriedly
leave the building is enough,"
Bruning said, "To say nothing of
other dangers, costs and loss of
working time."
Fritz, who averaged 18.2 points per
game last season en route to first
team All-Pacific Coast honors, but
the 64 forward has been sidelined
with an injury.
Vic Bartolome, a 7-0 center, and
Gary Freeman, a 8-9 forward,
together accounted for 23 point a
game last season and also pose a
rebound challenge to the smaller
Huskers.
Three starters returned for Ore
gon, but only six-foot Billy Gasklns
has managed to retain starting
status.
Coach Steve Belko's Ducks, who
have not registered a winning
season since the 1963-64 campaign,
are expected to have more size,
speed and depth with a talented
crop of sophomores.
"We're supposed to decide on our
own government but what do we
know about what is going on about
us? A great many of our answers
are handed to us by radio,
television and the newspapers over
which we have no control."
"The media tells us," Novak
said, "that North Vietnam invaded
South Vietnam and that is what we
have to believe."
"IF YOU want to say something
about Vietnam you can say it in
that line of thought without any
arguments because that is ac
ceptable according to CBS, the New
York Times and a few other
people."
Novak said American freedom
and justice is a freedom and justice
for .the middle class and that
students are told to work within the
system and to be pragmatic about
change, which is easy for them
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Senate dismissal
Three University students con
victed of petty larceny charges by
a Lincoln civil court may be
disciplined by the University in
possible violation of the Student
Academic Freedom document, ac
cording to a student senator.
The students were called before
Student Affairs officials in regard
to their civil violation and appeared
Wednesday night before the Student
Tribunal.
Student Sen. Bob Zucker said of
the action. "It appears at this time
that this case was brought up in
violation of a section of the SAF
document."
HE SAID it could be a case
of double jeopardy, students sub
ject to discipline from both civil
and University administrators for
the same violation. Consequently,
Zucker authored the resolution re
exams could all be
A DIRECTIVE distributed last
spring by Vice Chancellor Merk
Hobson, dean of faculties, explain
ed the exact procedure to be
followed when a bomb threat oc
curs. News of the threat is immediate
ly transferred to the University
Central operator who contacts the
Lincoln Police Department. The
Neihardt shares his wisdom
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with Nebraska's new
"because the system is just and
free for you and you're not going to
starve while changes are being
made."
A STUDENT later asked Novak
what answer should be given to an
individual who says change has to
be done in an orderly way and
Novak responded, "Try something
in a disorderly way once and see if
it works. The orderly way is an
American myth. Change is ac
complished by power."
"A great many young people, one
way or another, are quite aware
that there is a revoltuion coming in
this country and they're com
mitting their lives to it," he said.
"It will be a revolution in
economics and a revolution in con
sciousness." Asked if the revolution would
have to be a violent one, Novak
said that no one can fortell that and
questing the student Tribunal to
dismiss the case and it was passed
by ASUN Senate Wednesday.
The SAF document, adopted as
binding University policy by the
Board of Regents says of double
jeopardy:
"The enforcement of the obliga
tions of students to the larger
society is the responsibility of the
legal and judicial authorities duly
established for that purpose. If
students are alleged violators of
the law, they should proceed
through legal channels and institu
tional authority should never be
used merely to duplicate those
functions."
According to Peter Wirtz, assis
tant dean of student affairs, the
three students have already paid
the fines assessed by civil court for
their actions.
WIRTZ SAID he called the three
building is immediately
evacuated.
Officials then perform a thorough
search of the building. No one is
allowed back into the building
without permission of the police.
"THEY DO a thorough search,"
Bruning said. "They look in every
nook and cranny, such as in closets
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poet laureate, shared wisdom, accumulated over the
Phi Beta Kappa's at a banquet Wednesday night.
added that likewise no one knows
what methods of Changs should be
used.
"FOR 30 years everyone has
been creating pragmatic strategies
for preserving the present system.
No one has been devising anything
to change it," he said. "So we are
in this terrible dark period when we
don't know what to do, we don't
have any strategies."
Novak said American youth are
rightfully alienated because
"young people have been brought
up to compete. Others are objects.
It is never 'we.' And you always
have the sneaky feeling that no one
really knows you. You have a ter
ribel feeling of cheating yourself
and of being cheated. For society
demands that you have to appear to
be intelligent, to be reasonable and
not to show yourself. And that's a
drag."
basis for
proposal
into his office because "It is an
important mission of any educa
tional institution to help students
who are in trouble."
Wirtz said the students elected to
appear before Tribunal, a student
faculty board that has the power to
recommend disciplinary action to
Student Affairs, rather than face
the Student Affairs judgment
alone.
"I don't think this is a case of
double jeopardy," Wirtz said. He
said the action Student Affairs
takes in the case is intended to
have a positive effect, but that this
intent does not rule out punitive
action, including possible
suspension from school."
Wirtz said he believes that
supsension from school is "not
always a bad thing for a student
although it may seem like it at the
time they often change their minds
years later."
surprises
and boiler rooms, where a bomb
might be hidden and yet not be
discovered by employees."
Generally six to eight men are
involved, Bruning said. Time of the
search depends on the building in
volved. Burnett Hall takes about 20
minues and other buildings take
longer.
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