WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1969
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Classes will be held on Friday,
Feb.. 14 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m.
on city campus and from 9 a.m. to
12:00 p.m. on East Campus, according
to the Office of Student Affairs.
Afternoon classes will be can
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; WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5
12 p.m.
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12:30 p.m.
Placement Luncheon
2:30 p.m.
Food Handlers Training Course
3:30 p.m.
Union Trips & Tours
4 p.m.
ASUN-Senate
5:30 p.m.
Toastmasters Club
6:30 p.m.
Phi Chi Theta
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7 p.m.
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Food Handlers Training Course
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Then there were seven ... the redistricted state, as suggested by the Board of Regents in connection
with LB 188, would allot two board members to Douglas County instead of the previous one. The
bill is under consideration by the Legislative Education Committee.
Regent reorganization bill
postponed after controversy
It is uot generally known, but a
student ad hoc committee is planning
several projects to commemorate the
University's 100th birthday.
"We began work last December,"
committee member Larry J. Cihacek
said. "But to date only about five
students are doing most of the work."
THE GROUP is planning at least
two projects, Cihacek said.
"We want to research some phase
of student life over the last 100 years,"
he continued. Possibly this research
will concentrate on student involve
ment in political affairs over the past
century, he said. Students' involve
ment in extra curricular activities
could also be studied.
The study would be published in
some way, Cihacek said. It could be
printed in the Daily Nebraskan in
serial form or be distributed to the
students as a formal paper or an in
formal booklet.
The committee's second project is
the donation of a bronze medallkv,
to be hung near the present multi
purpose room on the Nebraska Union
second floor. ;
THE MEDALLION would be
something strictly from the studesis,
Cihacek said. Campus organizations
are being solicited for donations.
Possibly individual students may be
canvassed for money also.
In connection with the medallion;
the Union's multi-purpose room,
which has never had a name, will
be dedicated as the Centennial Roon.
The change has been approved lyv
the Union board, according to All t
H. Bennett, director of the Nebraska
Union.
"IT'S A fine idea and a very ap
propriate name," Bennet commented,
A dedication luncheon will be he 1
Feb. 8. When the medallion is finish
ed, it will be hung near the entrance
of the new Centennial Room.
by Susie Jenkins
Nebraskan Staff Writer
Disagreement among Omaha Sen.
George Syas, the Board of Regents
and the Legislature's Education
Committee has resulted in the in
definite postponement of a measure
to enlarge and redistrict the Board
of Regents.
The Education Committee, headed
by McCook Sen. Lester Harsh, will
reconsider LB 188 probably sometime
this week after studying the original
and the Regents' proposal.
The University Board of Regents
proposed Monday to the committee
that the present six members be
enlarged to seven, with the main
change in Douglas County, which
would in effect gain a second
representative on the Board.
The Regents' proposal is one
member less than the total recom
mended by the bill's main sponsor,
Sen. Syas. He and associate in
troducers Elvin Adamson of Valentine
and Omaha's Clifton Batchelder
recommended that eight be th
reformed total of the Board.
"The redisricting must be done
now," Syas emphasized. "I'm
naturally for eieht (members) but
however you recommend this bill to
the Legislature, you (the committee)
have to redistrict along the one man
one vote lines."
Due to the recent Supreme Court
ruling which insists on equal voter
representation, election districts in
Nebraska and the rest of the U.S.
must be based on population levels,
each within a small percentage level
of the other.
Voters in Nebraska also instituted
an amendment into the state Con
stitution which allows the Board to
be expanded up to a total of eight.
Syas noted that the Regents districts
were last realigned in 1920. At that
time the district around Douglas
County included parts of several sur
rounding counties. Regent Dick
Herman still represents the entire
area.
In addition, Lincoln was included
in a large district, giving the over
balance of representation to the
outlying rural districts.
With the Regents proposal, the
average population in the districts
would be about 217,000, with two
Regents from the Omaha area and
more than half of Nebraska from
the western boundary with one
representative.
Regent Ed Schwartzkopf, represen
ting the Board, said that the reason
the Board preferred seven was to
achieve an uneven number for voting.
The greatest disparity between
iistricts occurred between the pro
posed North Omaha district, with
200,000, and the Lancaster County
vicinity, with about 226,000 residents.
This difference and the change in
size of the districts bothered Genoa
Sen. Herb Nore, who complained that
the new plan would be unfair to the
rural areas.
"This is basically an agricultural
state," Nore said. "We emphasize the
cities too often. This could be
dangerous."
Nore was especially in disagree
ment with the prospect of giving
Omaha two Regents, while Omaha
Sen. Henry Pedersen disagreed with
the division for a different reason.
Pedersen noted that the Regents
proposed split of Omaha would divide
Douglas County Legislative districts
Four, Six, Nine and 12.
"This would cause great confusion,"
Pedersen said.
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Judiciary committee decision
okay's 19 majority amendments
by Sue Pettey
Nebraskan Staff Writer
The Judiciary Committee of the
state Legislature Tuesday passed an
amended bill which would lower the
age of majority to 19.
The committee, composed o f
Sesators Moulton, Schmit, S t u 1 1 ,
Leudtke, Klaver. Carpenter and
Elrod, under the chairmanship of Sen.
Fred Carstens, passed the bill on with
a vote of 6 for, 1 against, and 1
abstention.
As originally introduced by Senators
Adamson, Holmquist and Mahoney,
LB 167 would lower the age of majority
to 20, giving 20-year-olds all privileges
and responsibilities of citizenship ex
cept suffrage.
Two amendments to the bill were
subsequently introduced. Governor
Norbert Tiemann proposed lowering
the required age to 18 and University
student Dave Piester advanced 19 as
an alternative.
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Senator Elvin Adamson informed
the committee that the bill he is
currently co-sponsoring dispells his
reservations concerning the will
ingness of young people to assume
responsibility in exchange for the
privilege of voting. He felt certain
that if LB 167 were passed as a statute,
a companion bill lowering the voting
age, to be heard on Feb. 20, would
have little trouble securing a majority
from Nebraska voters.
Sen. Sam Klaver noted that sup
porters of the bill would be "going
contrary to the wishes of the voters,"
ascertained by the November defeat
of Amendment 1, by passing the bill
out of committee. He said that the
bill would not be an amendment,
decided by the voters of the state;
but rather a statute, voted upon by
the Legislature.
Sen. Adamson replied that it was
not the voting age bill in question
in the hearing and that LB 167 does
not affect the age of suffrage.
Robert Barnett, counsel to Tiemann,
introduced the Governor's amend
ment. He observed that young people
establish civic responsibility in high
school, but that the transition period
from 18 to 20 greatly diminishes this
feeling of responsibility.
On a query from Sen. Terry
Carpenter regarding whether the
Governor would accept 19 as a
suitable age, Barnett answered that
"Nineteen is better than 20, but not
as good as 18."
Sen. Fred Carstsns observed that
such legislation would open young
people to vulnerability from
unscrupulous businessmen, such as
loan sharks. Sen. Klaver agreed that
this would be the equivalent of throw
ing innocent youth to the dogs.
Piester, former chairman o f
Nebraskans for Young Adult Suffrage,
introduced what he termed a com
promise amendment to change the
age to 19. He asserted that a signifi
cant change occurs in a young person
upon his graduation from high school,
but that the age of 19 would still
allow most youths time to become
established before assuming such
responsibilities.
Piester indicated our society is
overprotective, and claimed that
freedom from legal prosecution is a
detriment to personal responsibility In
young people.
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