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TheTlaaUiLfl lepras hap MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1969 LINCOLN, NEBRASKA VOL. 92, NO. 68 i 1 1 Oft V' '"V- i I V - . 1 .V-v-'- -C "I X , . 7 - : t V & ; 1 ' r-y H v ! 11 is I Patrick J. Lucey speaking on pressures for change in the Univer sity: "Institutions must be flexbile if they are to survive, or if they are even worth saving. It is foolhardy to defend the status quo." Black North Side inhabitants Indicate 'frightening (Editors Note: Jim Pedersen, :braska Staff Writer, participated in ; weekend Live-In in Omaha. This i- oart one of a two part story.) There is a frightening urgency in the words of Omaha's North Side h ick inhabitants, and they are telling .lite America that time is running t lit. They aren't Stokely Carmichael's or T. Rap Brown's. They are ministers, i ucators, federal poverty workers, ; ack leaders. But their message is i lilitant. This polite but grim atmosphere i-vaded Clair Methodist Church in rth Omaha where a group of . diversity students took part in a ' ive-in" sponsored by ASUN last . sekend. THE STUDENTS heard from a !---ies of speakers ranging from the ecutive director of the Nebraska ban League to the leader of i laha's Black Panther party. One - the most impressive was Mike iams. a federal poverty worker and iSer KU student. rrSToik should be done WITHIN the -tem, but work should be done ON -system," he said. "You don't -petuate a rotten system; you -tfige it, "11 a national violent movement el" arises, it will mean black people ve: resigned themselves to the end their hopes. It would be a coalition "groups in and out of the U.S. who t to see the country crumble. ".But we have investments in the ;:.ST.and we aren't going to prostitute .country." , . ADAMS, like most of the blacks . .nnk nart in the program, doesn t UMeve separatism is the answer to froubles fall ' by Ed Anson Nebraskan Staff Writer Snowballs were the weapons and the i attle was all in fun. But the battle 1,-came serious, resulting in extensive vliulow breakage and a number of minor injuries. Up to 1,500 students participated in snowball fight Thursday night, ac-i-onding to University Police Capt :ugene Masters. Windows of several 1 ving units were broken and motorists . ere stopped and showered with : icwballs. Several car windows were ieportedly broken. A friendly, free-for-all snowball fight involving Harper and Schramm indents began about 4 p.m., ac- OT-ding to Tom Wurtz who watched rom his room in Harper Hall. Chi Thi and Triangle fraternities later ; ;ined in, Wurtz said. After dinner, participants moved riuth down ICth street with Abel and Gather residents, he added. As the group passed Vine Street, : cveral fraternities joined. The men ned up on opposite sides of the t. rest Men charged across ICth Street releasing a volley of snowballs. photo by Dan Ladcljr the racial problem yet. "At this point in time, we would rather talk with interested whites than withdraw into ourselves," Adams said. "It is a missionary approach. We want to educate the heathen which in this case is the white man." When all the options have been ex hausted, separatism may be the only way to exist, he added. ADAMS addressed the group on what it means to be black. He cited a number of examples and statistics emphasizing the inequality between white and black. According to Adams, blacks are given middle class American tests all their lives until they are tested out of high school, college, higher voca tional jobs, and skilled army positions into manual labor or the infantry. "The white community has been brainwashed into believing that there is democracy, liberalism, and freedom in the U.S.," he said. "It just doesn't exist in this country." BLACK SUCCESS should be gauged by how much "we do for each other, for the whole race," Adams continued. If blacks don't sacrifice for each other, their success won't be any dif ferent than the white middle class. The students engaged in intensive question and answer discussion groups with all the 12 speakers. Three of the speakers were white, and their messages were filled with less im mediacy but not much. John Else, a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, feels the redistribution of power is the best means to overcome the poverty of the ghetto. "Social problems are not individual with snowballs during student contest Participants joined forces to gather in front of Women's Residence Hall (WRH). A few managed to get past the front door but when confronted by the residence director and the coordinator of housing, they began to retreat, according to Barb Ahlschwede, WRH residence direc tor. Snowballs began hitting WRH win dows. Several windows were broken wl some window screens were bent. A lone police cruiser drove south on 16th between the groups. Students unloaded snowballs as the car drove through. The Lincoln Police Depart ment reported Friday that the cruiser's windshield was broken. Students began to throw firecrackers. Several participants were reportedly beaten and several received minor injuries. Inter-Fraternity Council President Joe Voboril and G. Robert Ross, dean of student affairs, asked several fraternity groups to get to their houses, according to Ross. Shortly after, the crowd began to disperse. At midnight only a handful remained. CU convocation sneakers b JL military, party, Establishment by Susie Jenkins Nebraska)! Staff Writer The walls of the Establishment, the military-industrial complex and the regular Democratic Party came tumbling down at the Creighton University Student Leadership Con ference Saturday at Omaha. Four speakers, all Democrats of varying degree, participated in a discussion on student power. They were: Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas, associate justice for 30 years and a recognized member of the Court's "liberal" fraction; Jeremy Lamer, a coordinator for Sen. Eugene McCarthy's presidential campaign, and author and professor of English at the University of New York at Stonybrooke; Patrick J. Lucey, former lieutenant governor of Wisconsin and a member of the National Steering Committee of the New Democratic Coalition; and Wyoming Sen. Gale McGee, recently appointed to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to replace McCarthy. AN OVERFLOW crowd in Creighton's 500 seat auditorium heard the four self -proclaimed liberal urgency nrnhlems." Else said. "Thev need social solutions. They don't need Head Start, the Job Corps, and Planned Parenthood. "REASONS AND REASONING are the first things that have to be thrown out the window in redistributing power. The people in power aren't going to be persuaded into giving the poor or the blacks power." According to Else, riots are a way of telling power structure people that it is going to cost them more money to ignore the ghetto than it will to act. "There is no question that riots have brought money to poor people," he added. "But unless the riots are con tinued, unless the violence is sustain ed, the poor people find out that the effect of their one time riot wears off." "VIOLENCE is not the only way to get power to the ghetto people, however," he said. For the people involved in the "live in", militancy has a far different connotation than to most whites. Militancy to them denotes activism, interest. "You can be militant without being extremist," according to Harold Adler, regional director of the Anti Defamation League. "Militancy, white or black, is good. We need more of it." Adler addressed the group on the growing menace of extremism. "The right is telling as that democratic in stitutions can't be trusted so arm yourselves," he said. "The left is saying that our democratic institu tions are in decay so arm yourselves and revolt " continued on page 4 V,.-' Cold Democrats speak in apparent agree ment in support of student demonstrations and activism. Douglas displayed for the audience some of the reasons for his con troversial status among Supreme Court critics. "Picketing rises to the level of a Constitutional dignity," Douglas said, praising student demonstrators. "The individual is being plowed under in the U.S., "he said. "We are creating fear, and with it a sense of futility. When you have futility you get violence." Douglas verbally attacked numerous facets of contemporary America. These included the selective service, "giant" corporations, politi cians and lobbyists, militarism, the CL, the Pentagon, the American Legion and the GI Bill. DOUGLAS' ARGUMENTS belied his age as he urged students to object to society's dehumanization processes. "The University wants you (students) to uphold the status quo," he said. "Universities today want to take the caps off your minds and fill them with folklore to make you solid, respectable people," Douglas said. "They want you to go for the status quo." He received the biggest applause of the afternoon when he responded to a question regarding the constitu tionality of a recently passed legislative bill to suspend students found in possession of marijuana: "Are you trying to disqualify me from sitting on that case when it gets to my court?" Patrick Lucey s sed that the structure of univeiaity governments should be reformed into a "tri partite" arrangement of students, faculty and administration. "In universities ,the group with the largest constituency (the administra tion) has the smallest stake in decisions," Lucey said. "The administration tends t o represent the regents, alumni and taxpayers, while the faculty and students represent only themselves," he said. STUDENTS SHOULD have a "large and loud voice" in establishment of social rules and student organizations, Lucey said. The faculty and student body should have weight in com mittees on curriculum, re-hiring and tenure; the administration should dominate in long range planning and in gathering funds, he said. "Institutions must be flexible if they are to survive, or if they are even worth saving," Lucey said. "It is foolhardy to defend the status quo. Those who oppose all change are engaged in the most senseless rear guard action." Lucey said his proposal evolved from the progress of the recent stu dent strikes at Madison, Wise. "The death blow to Wisconsin University student action will come war. in the state legislature," Lucey told the Nebraska audiew HE SAID that members of the Wisconsin legislature have introduced "a large number" of bills which would grant power to officials to remove Communists from institutions if there is "reason to believe" an employe is a communist. ' ( Williarn O. Douglas in response to a question about the legality of the marijuana 30 day suspension bill; "Are you trying to disqual ify me from sitting on that case when it gets to my court?" NFU curriculum drops to by John Dvorak Nebraskan Staff Writer Courses in long distance running and investment brokerage, along with four others, will be offered this semester in the Nebraska Free University, according to Jim L. Humlicek, NFU committee chairman. The number is the smallest offering in the three year history of NFU. More than 50 classes were offered last semester, but only about six will be available this semester. "We just don't have enough people to spearhead the effort," Humlicek pointed out. His committee, instead of actively seeking courses, will assist any interested person or group in set ting up a course. "MORE INITIATIVE will now have to be taken by people outside the NFU committee," Humlicek said. Lawrence C. Wolfley, an English instructor, wants to lead a course about the psychological and physical effects of long distance running. "I've been running for six years now," Wolfley said. "I would like to get together -a group of people who are interested both in reading about fitness and working to develop it." WCLFLEY ran with about 30 other individuals when he was at Berkeley. He is disappointed that so few people are interested in running for physical fitness at the University. "Our group could come together each day and do our warmups and then run together," Wolfley said. "On weekends we could take long runs into the country." Wolfley, who now runs about five miles every day, said that his course is open to anyone; regardless of sex or age. it wm noia its iirst meeting illlllllltllllllllllillilll!ll!llllilllltllllllllllllllllll IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllllllllll!IHIIIII!!llllllllinil!lllllllllllllllllllllllllllll)l!!llilllllHII' 5 s Convention delegates I The lottery for the selection of the nine off-campus delegates to the 1 ASUN Constitutional Convention will be held Thursday, Feb. 27, accord- s ing to convention chairman Tom Morgan. All off-campus students are 1 eligible to be delegates. . s b Those desiring to participate should submit their names to the ASUN a I office, room 117, Nebrcska Union, by 4 p.m., Wed., Feb. 26, Morgan s I said. The names of those students selected will appear in next Friday's 1 Daily Nebraskan. p iummiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin Sen. Gale McGee said that events have caught up with "outmoded in stitutions of higher learning," and those institutions are difficult to change resulting in friction. He also blamed an "inmature" at titude toward students and the Impact of mass communications for enlarging the generational conflict. 6 courses Tuesday Union. evening in the Nebraska JOHN W. WAGSTAFFE, ft sophomore, plans to lead a course in conservative political theory. "I will present the views of noted conservatives and help define exactly what conservatism is," Wagstaffe commented. He hopes that persons of all political beliefs will join the course to provide controversy and discussion. "We want to hear other ideas, he said. "Then I will inject my views and perhaps we can discuss solutions to problems of the day." A STOCKBROKER for First Mid America Securities Inc., Frank Sobota from Lincoln, will lead a course on investment practices. He will aim the course toward students. Because few if any courses in social anthropology are offered at the University, Kjartan T. Magnusson, a graduate student from California, has initiated a course on "African Kinship and Political Systems." The Free University committee is assisting Marvin L. Helman and other members of the Lincoln Sport Parachute Club, in a free skydiving course. That class will train students in all aspects of parachute jumping. At the course's conclusion, students will be able to make their first jump. A COURSE in basic folk guitar in struction will be offered again this semester. It will include the fun damentals of playing the folk guitar, including chording, strumming, pick ing and more advanced styles. This course was extremely suc cessful, last semester, noted Humlicek. The class met for the first time last Thursday.