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MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1968
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
VOL 92, NO. 50
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Model UN discusses African racial unrest
by Jim Pedersen
Nebraskan Staff Writer
The apartheid policy of South Africa, the Middle East
crisis, and racial discrimination practiced by Southern
Rhodesia were all subjects of resolutions passed Saturuay
by the General Assembly of the Model United Nations.
Amid seemingly endless cries of "point of order," "point
of information," or "point of personal privilege," the nearly
350 delegates representing 67 nations ground out four resolu
tions in the University of Nebraska's second Model U.N.
The Friday session of the Model U.N. was spent is the
meeting of the Security Council, Social, Humanitarian, Cultural
Committee, Political and Security Committee, and the
Trusteeship Committee.
THE RESOLUTION dealing with South Africa condemned
that nation for failing to comply with U.N. resolutions and
urged all member states to boycott South African trade.
Israel was censured and ordered to give up all territory
conquered in the Six Day War of 1967 in another Model
U.N. resolution. Southern Rhodesia was censured for its racist
policies and urged to release all political prisoners.
The fourth resolution concerned the problems of territories
under Portuguese administration.
NINE COLLEGES and universities in the Midwest
participated, but what especially pleased Secretary General
Carol Madson was the active participation of University of
Nebraska delegations.
"For many of the delegations from other schools, model
U.N. is almost like a debate meet," she said. "What we
wanted, and got, was a real interest on the part of University
students."
The two-day session was highlighted by the appearance
of Dr. Darrell Randall, professor of African studies at the
American University in Washisgton, D.C. and Dr. John
Stoessinger, director of the Political Affairs Division of the
U.N.
RANDALL, A graduate of the University of Nebraska and
Nebraska Wesleyan University, addressed the first session of
the General Assembly on the problems of the emerging African
nation.
Randall warned the audience that the discrimination pro
blems in southern Africa are on a collision course which could
erupt into a racial war of black against white.
"If you think there is trouble in Vietnam," he said,
"wait until the problem is Africa breaks loose.
"It is a confrontajtion not only of black and white, but
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Chancellor Clifford Hardin, flanked by Vice Chancellor Merk Hobson (right) and Regent Richard Adkins, pledges, "I shall
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F
rimary impact of pledge
education contract next fa
by Jim Evinger
Nebraskan Staff Writer
It will take three or four years
before the 1FC Pledge Education
Contract will be fully implemented,
according to Sid Logemann, past
IFC president.
Logemann said Sunday the con
tract's significance will be felt for
the first time next fall during rush
week. He explained that incoming
freshmen will be aware of the con
tract and will seriously question
those bouses which have not signed
it.
"IT IS UP TO the bouses that do
follow the contract to rush on its
merits and to make it worthwhile,"
lie said.
At present there are 16
fraternities which have signed the
contract They are Beta Sigma Psi,
Alpha Gamma Rbo, Acacia, Alpha
Gamma Sigma, Beta Tbeta 1
Delta Sigma Phi. Delta Tau Delta,
Farm House, Kappa Sigma, Phi
Gamma Delta, Pi Kappa Phi,
Sigma Nuu Sigma Alpha Epsilon,
Tau Kappa Epsilon, Tneta Chi and
Triangle.
Logemann said there are two
houses, Theta Xi and Alpha Tau
Omega, which are in doubt whether
or not to turn the contract back in
to the IFC.
Sigma Phi Epsilon has recently
turned the contract in.
THAT LEAVES NINE bouses
which have not signed the contract
at any time. They are Phi Kappa
Psi, Phi Delta Tbeta, Delta
Upsilon, Sigma Chi, Zeta Beta Tau,
Kappa Alpha Psi, Pi Kappa Alpha,
Sigma Alpha Mu and Chi PhL
Logemann said that of those nine,
there are about five which still
practice the old style of pledge
training as opposed to progressive
pledge education programs.
There is a direct relationship
between bouses which have not
signed the contract and bouses
which are continually reported to
the IFC by the Lincoln Police
Department and the University for
city and campus violations,
Logemann said.
HE SAID MOST OF these reports
deal with drinking infractions and
disturbing the peace complaints,
but added that generally there is
little trouble with bouses which
have adopted the pledge contract
"The fraternity will allow the
IFC Ess-ecT'ive and-or Pledge Edu
cation committee to observe it
pledge education program within
the bouse at any time and to ques
tion its pledges concerning their
pledgeship program," a clause of
the contract reads.
Logemann said there are in
cidental violations of the contract
by various houses, but that no long
term violations are taking place.
HE SAID THE IFC executives
have not seen fit to check houses. It
is rather obvious "which houses are
essentially following the contract
and which permit minor and
periodic violations," he said. He
emphasized that selective enforce
ment should not be used.
However, there will "have to be
some visitations of houses,
particularly curing help-hell week
activities," the past IFC president
said.
The disappointing aspect of the
contract is that a number of na
tional fraternities don't whole
heartedly support the Idea,
Logemann said, Be added that the
principles of the contract adhere
closely to most national
fraternities' stated principles and
ideals.
LOGEMANN SEES THE major
ity of campus fraternities as mov
ing away from traditional con
cepts of pledgeship to progressive
programs. He recognizes a number
of houses at being in a transitional
process which is difficult because
of instilled attitudes favorable to
traditional programs.
"It's hard to get juniors and
seniors who have been brought up
under pledge training to realize
what pledge education can be," he
said.
This points to the fact that there
is a very definite lack of real and
imaginative leadership regarding
pledge programs, Logemann said.
He admitted it is hard for fraterni
ty upperclassmen to formulate
programs without getting rid of the
framework they are currently
working within.
Coalition members,
also of the Communist and Western blocs. There is an increas
ing tendency for the poor and the black in Africa to identify with
the Communists.
"IF THE United States continues its policy of opposing
everything the Communist bloc does, the U.S. will find itself
on the side of the white supremacists. That would be tragic."
The tension in the United States between blacks and
whites is only a small part of a worldwide problem, Randall
said. The situation is complicated by the fact that blacks
are living in poor nations with two-thirds of the world's
population and are not able to feed their people.
. "The Invisible Agenda at the U.N." was the topic of
Stoessinger's address Saturday evening at the International
Banquet.
Stoessinger, who fled Nazi-occupied Austria and later
Czechoslovakia, is a graduate of Harvard and the winner
of the Bancroft Prize for the best book on international relations
in 1967.
STOESSINGER LISTED three reasons why the U.N. has
been unable to intervene in the Vietnam war. First of all,
neither North Vietnam nor South Vietnam is a member nation.
Secondly, France and Russia will not permit the Security
Council to act until the U.S. halts all acts of war. Finally,
any force sent by the U.N. to Vietnam would be ineffective.
"Even though the U.N. can't become involved militarily
in Vietnam," he said, "we hope we can play a part in
achieving or implementing the peace."
Stoessinger does not discount the negotiations in Paris
where even the shape of the table has been a problem.
"The table was a problem at the Congress of Vienna
for a year," he said, "and that conference kept the peace
in Europe for a hundred years."
ACCORDING TO Stoessinger, extensive research points
to the following events in the Vietnam War: (1) No one
will win the war, (2) Vietnam will probably be taken out
of the Cold War through neutralization, (3) A coalition govern
ment will result not unlike that of the Fourth Republic of
France.
"We have come to the conclusion that the best treaty
which can come out of Vietnam is one in which everyone
is a little unhappy," Stoessinger added. "We are also convinc
ed that a coalition government will not necessarily result
in a Communist government"
ACCORDING TO Stoessinger the U.S.S.R. is in the same
position now in the Middle East as was the U.S. in Vietnam
in 1953.
"My feeling is that the U.S.S.R. will not follow the course
of action which the VS. did," he said. "If Israel were
destroyed, Soviet influence in the Middle East would vanish."
In contrast, the policy of the United States is a study
in confusion, he added. The U.S. is committed to the Israelis,
the Jordanians, and the Egyptians in an attempt to maintain
a balance of power.
"THE GREATEST danger to world peace today is the
tension in the Middle East," Stoessinger said.
In summary, Stoessinger said that nations wait too long
before bringing their problems to the U.N.
He likened the VJS. to a midget referecing the wrestling
. match between two giants. -
"The U.N. is dependent upon whatever the Soviet Union
and the United States do," he continued. "Yet the midget
is growing more quickly than the giants, and I am optimistic."
"It will take two or three generations, but someday they
all three will be equal," he concluded.
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Professor of African studies at the American University in
Washington, D.C Dr. Darrell Randall warned Model UN
delegates of the potential racial outbreak in Africa during
his address to the second annual University-sponsored con
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are cautious about future cooperation
Dottie Russell helps one of the children enjoy the Christmas
party at the Harper-Schram-Srrith residence hall complex
this weekend. The complex held the party for crippled, re
tarded, and underprivileged children.
by George KanfmaH
Nebraska Staff WrSier
(Editor's note This is the
second of t e-fart story the
New Democratic Coalition,
fledgling liberal eaueitf inside die
Nebrmtka Democratic Party.)
If there is doubt and confusion
over the Democratic Coalition
among the members, there is just
as much apprehension and doubt
among the leaders of the Nebraska
Democratic Party.
John C. Mitchell, chairman of the
state Democratic Party and an
Omaha lawyer, voices the ap
prehension of the regular party
members:
"IF THEY ((the Coalition
members) just want to be
rebellious to satisfy the ego of the
few, they will be a dividing factor, I
don't think this is their desire, at
least on the part of many of them."
Mitchell considers that if the
energies of the Coalition members
will be directed towards discussing
issues, analyzing past platforms of
the party and working on new
areas of future platforms, then they
will perform a valuable service for
the party, and the party would en
courage them in this,
"But there is concern by some,
cautioned the Demo leader, "that
the Coalition wants the support of
the party for their candidate if they
get past the primaries and will
want to sit out some races if the
primary winner is not their can
didate. If that is what they really
feel, then I doubt if they'll make
many friends among party
stalwarts."
Mitchell warns that this sort of
"beads we win, tails you lose" ap
proach will not be w elcomed by the
party leaders.
THE STATE chairman voiced
further concern over the structure
of the coalition as set up at an
Omaha meeting Dec. 7,
"If they want to stay within the
party, yet set up their own ex
ecutive committee, they're already
putting themselves out of the par
ry," structurally. 1
Mitchell made it clear that he
and other Democratic leaders in
the state will be carefully watching
press releases and other statements
of Coalition leaders in the near
future to determine the attitude of
the group.
He said that be would "doubt if
there's room within the party" for
the group if they were to publicly
and continuously come out against
Democratic platform stands.
The focus of the liberal move
ment in Nebraska, and hence the
Coalition, is on the University of
Nebraska campus since a bulk of
the leaders art either faculty
members or students.
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