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ouns: 0 If w MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, It pboto by Mite Hymaa Secretary of Agriculture Clifford M. Hardin, accepts welcoming applause from the Nebraska Unicameral upon his return to Lin coln for Centennial festivities. ardin addresses Nebraska The"new Secretary of Agriculture Cffiford M. Hardin returned to Nebraska, receiving a warm welcome ?rpm Nebraska Legislators when he addressed their session last Friday. rAs';. chancellor of the University, Hardin was often at odds with the tjwmakers concerning University funds and projects. However, from his" new stature as agriculture Secretary, Hardin received a standing Ovation from the legislators. ' Hardin expressed his gratitude to tlie Unicameral for its "understanding and friendship." and especially thanked Gov. Norbert T. Tiemann, to rhom he said he was indebted for "sharpened insights on the problems facing rural America." :IN;A TEXT DELIVERED the previous day at Des Moines, Hardin told the Legislature that along with the "old. familiar programs" he planned three major additions to the .projects of his department. First, the Department of Agriculture will take responsibility for e'iminating malnutrition in the U.S., Hardin said. He noted that although the problem has existed for a long time, "we are beginning action when people are finally ready for it." To combat the problem, food will be distributed through agricultural extension services, but Hardin said that strong interest on the state and SWS, IDA approve optional hours by Sue Schllchtemeier Nebraskan Staff Writer ". The proposal for establishing an optional hours system for Mari Sandoz Han received approval last week from AWS and IDA. - The proposed system is advanced the University Committee on Stu-Sdent- Affairs for consideration on .Tuesday, Feb. 18. The experimental ystem, as proposed, would go into Effect this semester and offer an op tionai hours system for Sandoz -"residents. "1 Women utilizing the alternative would be issued identification cards. When residents return to Sandoz, they would be checked by a night watch man against their ID card which ; would be kept on file. When the resi :dsni is recognized by the watchman, Lincol ."ft v.. photo by Du Lately 1969 t senators local level will be mandatory for the program to succeed. HARDIN ALSO SAID he was count ing on private and volunteer groups to "help monitor" the success of the distribution. The other two innovations for the department include attracting in dustry to rural America, and protec tion of the U.S. farm industry from the "threats of the European economic community." Hardin said that such competition forces the farmer to carry the extra costs in international marketing. Hardin said that his first 30 days in federal government have amounted to a "total immersion" course in agriculture, government and politics. HE SAID THAT as Secretary, he will serve on the Council on Urban Affairs and the Council on Economic Development. Hardin brought with him a telegram from President Nixon which he read to the Legislators and later to the University Centennial Convocation. Nixon extended best wishes to the state and to the University. Accompanying Hardin were his wife, the Tiemanns and former na tional American Legion commander William F. Galbraith. Nebraskan Galbraith is now employed in Washington with the Department of Agriculture. she is permitted entrance. Under the key system, a resident must have her key turned in by 7 a.m. the next morning. Under tts op tional system, such a requirement would not exist. The proposal lists several points which make the optional hours system desirable: Emphasis on the importance of the parent-daughter decision. Security of the residence hall. Increased occupancy in residence halls. Financial economy. Increased responsibility for the residence hall . . . establishing op tional hours enables the residence hall to operate on two systems. The workability of the system is based upon: 1 n can by Susie Jenkins Nebraskan Staff Writer In the basically white and con servative city of Lincoln, the statements of National Urban League Director Whitney M. Young, Jr., may seem somewhat radical and inap plicable. "Nebraska is a microcosm of all the other problems in the U.S.," Young said in an exclusive interview with the Daily Nebraskan. "Actions taken elsewhere have bought Lincoln time. "Don't think you have a peculiar breed of people here," he said. "Nebraskans must become relative too." Young, however, is considered na- National Urban League Ex ecutive Director Whitney Young accepts an honorary- degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Chancellor Merk Hobson in centennial ceremonies Friday morning. o LINCOLN, O Princeton President of keeping order on University officialdom celebrated the school's one hundredth birthday ceremony Friday as faculty and students witnessed the conferring of six honorary degrees. Princeton Pres. Robert Goheen also spoke on the need to maintain order within U.S. universi ties. Recipients of the degrees were: Whitney M. Young. Jr., executive director of the National Urban League and president-elect of the National Association of Social Workers, who received the degree Doctor of Humane Letters. Olga Nielsen Sheldon of Lexington was honored for her part in the building of the University's Sheldon Art Gallery. Mrs. Sheldon received the degree Doctor of Humane Letters for her efforts to promote University art collections and galleries. Dr. Edwin John Wellhausen was awarded a Doctor of Science degree for development of varieties of corn which are now grown in areas in Mexico, South America and Asia. Mrs. Sarah Ladd Woods was awarded the degree Doctor o f Humane Letters for her contributions to art in Nebraska. Dr. J. George Harrar received the degree Doctor of Laws in recognition of "his service to mankind through the sciences of agriculture." Harrar has battled "the problems of human hunger and substandard living condi tions" throughout his life in various agricultural programs. Dr. Robert F. Goheen, president of Princeton University, received the honorary Doctor of Laws degree. Like Young, Wellhausen and Harrar, he is affilaited with the Rockefeller Foundation. After an introduction by Cliffc-d M. Hardin, Goheen said in the convo cation address that universities must innovate and reform, yet serve as "conserver and guardian." Goheen called this situation "the fundamental duality of the Universi ty." by Jim Pedersea Nebraska Staff Writer There will be no faculty evaluation book for student use before the pre registration period for the fall semester. Bob Zucker, chairman of the ASUN Faculty Evaluation committee, said Saturday that a combination of lack of funds, student interest and staff workers will make it impossible for the book to be published this spring. "Insufficient interest on the part of (1) Eligibility: Must be a resident of Mari Sandoz Hall Must have received parental permission. Must be willing to assume finan cial responsibility which would pro bably amount to $1 per month. Must obtain coded identification card bearing photograph. (2) Night watchman: Possibilities for the night wat chman include a student (male or female), campus policeman, night hostess, custodian or a Samardick employee. Would be responsible to the University. Would be able to alert Sandoz staff members to patterns of behavior which would merit concern. 1 yoy s J Become tionally to be a civil rights moderate. He received his twenty-ninth honorary degree at the University centennial convocation Friday. He observed later that visible changes are occurring in universities in the U.S. Young agreed with activist students that universities must become more relevant to the community and the community's needs. "Education is supposed to prepare us to live in a democracy," he said. "Actually, it trains people to live in a capitalist society. "Universities are established to perpetuate the system, and those things useful to the system," he said. Young said that as college ad ministrations become more flexible they will admit the sins of tne past. He named three goals for universities to improve the current situation:. To aggressively recruit black and poor white students; To recruit black faculty mem bers; XJJ u NEBRASKA "Some of the widespread turbulence on our campuses has little if any in tellectual justification," Goheen said. "Yet, we must remember that those halls were never quite as sedate as myth or nostalgia would have it." HE MINIMIZED the potential of the radical left student groups to cause serious trouble. "It is not these anarchists and nihilists, I am convinced, but rather the much larger groups of thoughtfully concerned and restless students . . . who merit our atten ', $r.?,jr v fJ 0 " it nridMM. -mrnir-niMdn-T titmimiammmmmmtwmm.uKK,uiimmmmmmmmiMmm photo by Mike Hymaa Acting Chancellor Merk Hobson, University President Joseph Soshnik and Chancellor Clifford Hardin seem to muse, er-ah- amuse themselves at Friday's Centennial convocation. 7 acuity evaluation cance the stiJdent body is the crux of the problem," he said. "Everyone is will ing to talk about faculty evaluation, but their interest ends when they have to devote some time to the project." ZUCKER SAID the faculty evalua tion book is a large project involving large amounts of money and the committee cannot rely on "activity jocks" to do the work. "These people aren't always the most reliable workers," he continued. "When they commit themselves to the project merely as a part of their ac tivity program, they seldom last for very long." According to Zuker, the original committee was composed of many upperclassmen who did not return to school in the fall or could not remain on the committee for various reasons. "There were 25 members on the original committee," he said. "Now there are 11, and only two or three of those were appointed to the com mittee last spring." Zucker admitted, however, that much of the work surrounding the faculty evaluation is not very in teresting. "A basic problem is that the people who originally started out on the staff were interested in it oaly in a minimal fashion," he said. "No one would take on much of a work load." CONSEQUENTLY, staffers would be given an assignment and be told to report back in a week, acct i iing to Zucker, and they would often return the work a month or more later. a mode To make the university relevant to the community. Young said that black history courses in universities would be "useful" for whites to learn what contributions Negroes have made to society. "Historically, education has been used to enslave and hold the black," he said. "Therefore, you couldn't let them have heroes." Young foresees continued con frontation and challenge on campuses and in the cities. He emphasized the difference between professional stu dent agitators and black separatists, and the "sincere" young idealist however. "Unless clear-cut changes come about, they (sincere students) can become revolutionaries also," he said. He linked the "professionals" on campus with the black separatists, of whom he said there were few. "If there is violence in the cities this year it will be guerilla sabotage vJLL I n rt r raou Goheen speaks college campuses tion," Goheen said. Goheen called leftist student solu tions to imperfections of society "naive." He blamed this on the youth ful age of college students. "THERE ARE strong currents of romanticism in the discontent they display," he said. "While this spawns impetuous, emotional, even deliberately anti-intellectual language and behavior, this is in part an intense exploration of the meaning of human freedom." Goheen warned the "other genera Possibly an even more pressing problem than the inadequacy of the staff is money. The costs of research and publica tion for this book are higher than for the last two books, Zucker said. An attempt was made to organize an advertising program, but the attempts have met with little success. ZUCKER ESTIMATES that costs for the project will run upwards of $2,000 of which three-fourths will have to be paid by advertising. "It takes a good deal of organization to conduct an advertising program when you realize just how many stu dent publications sell ads to Lincoln businessmen," he continued. "We have not been able to find a qualified person to plan an advertising pro gram." According to Zucker, not enough money is allocated to ASUN for its budget, and as a result not enough is given to the faculty evaluation committee. "ASUN GETS about $10,000 of which we get nearly a tenth," he said. "We can't really expect more than a tenth of the budget, but it is still not enough for our purposes." Because a spring evaluation book seems impossible, Zucker is trying to compile the information that has been collected in the past two semesters so that it can be used in a composite evaluation. "We are attempting to develop a project with some longevity over several semesters," be added. "With cit and strategic rioting," he said7!He thought students and blacks were coming to realize that large scale rioting was useless. They find - it results in damage to black homes 'add businesses, danger from the police who have armed and prepared themselves with equipment and are "aching to use it." Young called bhck capitalism l'a myth," unable to meet the problems of the masses. C,H! "It will produce black CTeii terpreneurs," he said, "but as a meaningful way to lift the blacks economically and socially, it is a cruel hoax. It will only perpetrate the ine qualities of American capitalism." Lincoln has the opportunity ; to become a model city, Young said. "To accomplish this, you need to plan for an open society," he said. "You should deliberately structure housing and education to include this. It isn't an automatic process. "The University should play a large part in this structuring," he said. VOL 92, NO. 64 tion" to heed the concerns raised by student activists. "For those who continue to despair over beards and beads," he said, "I suggest they consider how hard it is to indict today's collegiate youth with two of mankind's oldest sins war mongering and racism." In advocating more tolerance and patience as the cure for campus unrest Goheen emphasized that "the last thing I have ment to imply is that they should surrender their moral concern and settle for things just as they are." only one semester of evaluation, it is hard to be objective." INSTRUCTORS WHO are teaching small classes are being evaluated by a limited number of students, Zucker continued. It is hard to make sense out of the opinions of 12 to 15 people, he said. In an attempt to reduce the amount of time involved in each evaluation, Zucker altered the practice of having students evaluate their instructors in class. This was the method used in the spring semester of 1968. "It is quite a lengthy procedure to get the evaluation done in the classroom," he said. "We have to write at least three letters to each professor on campus just to get them to approve of the process." FOR THESE reasons, the com mittee attempted to distribute the questionnaires in the dormitories, Nebraska Union and Greek houses. This process also did not work out, Zucker said. "The last faculty evaluation book failed miserably," he said. "If this evaulation isn't better than - the previous one, it is not even worth printing." "WE WANT to improve the quality of the faculty evaluation book before we print anything," he added. Zucker thinks that about one-third of the faculty are participating in the evaluation. "This is actually meager compared Continued on Pae I lied