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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1969
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. . . by Fred Schmidt
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And now, from high atop the Nebraska
statehouse . . . only minutes away from downtown
Lincoln ... by the banks of scintillating Salt
Creek . . . come the sounds of Joe McCarthy
and His Royal Americans.
(Imagine in the background, if you will, the
superimposition of "The Marine's Hymn," "Start
and Stripes Forever," and "Beautiful
Nebraskaland.")
TONIGHT'S CONCERT by the Royal
Americans, formerly billed as the Nebraska
Legislature Hallelujah Chorus, will include their
latest hit: "LB 8, or I Flipped My Lid Over You,
MaryJane."
The message of the lyrics probably the most
significant since Buck Owens asked the musical
question "Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass?" is
that evil-minded college students need more
punishment than do other Nebraskans.
BUT OFF THE record (or on it, if someone
decides to cut a disc of the hit song), band leader
Terry Carpenter (former child protege of Ramon
Rocello) is dissatisfied. It seems he heard a dissi
dent note in his beautiful melody.
The note was struck by Norbert Tiemann, head
of the big brass section. And Maestro Carpenter
has stated he is unwilling to play second fiddle
to anyone.
TTEMANN NOT ONLY struck a sour note, but
now he is telling the musicians they should tear -up
their sheet music for "LB 8."
Although the Royal Americans may try to
outblast Tiemann, those who appreciate music mora
recent than the minuet are giving his solo
performance a standing ovation.
Ed Icenogle
ASUN is 0-3
Maybe Craig Dreeszen was thinking ahead
when he resigned as ASUN president. Student
government's record hasn't been too fantastic this
year.
So far, it's 0-3.
First, the 1969 World in Revolution Conference
(Ron Alexander's responsibility) was waltzed into
oblivion.
Second, the Faculty Evaluation Book (Bob
Zucker's responsibility) was allowed to evaporate.
Third, Nebraska Free University (Jim
Humlicek's responsibility) Is being slowly strangled.
Maybe Dreeszen saw these people failing.
Maybe that's part of the reason he resigned.
Maybe that's the reason Alexander, Zucker and
Humlicek should resign, too.
Ed Icenogle
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By Rowland Evans and Robert Novak
New York Piled on all the other troubles
darkening Mayor John V. Lindsay's reelection
hopes, Lt. Gov. Malcolm Wilson at the very
' core of this state's Republican establishment
is intriguing against Lindsay without hindrance
from Gov. Nelson Rockefeller.
Wilson is supplying clandestine encouragement
to a prospective bid against Lindsay in the June
mayoral primary by state Sen. John March! of
Staten Island, an attractive young conservative
Republican. If March! actually provokes this party
weakening struggle, it will be in no small part
the Lieutenant Governor's responsibility.
WILSON AND MARCin have met at least twice
In recent days at Albany with financing of a possi
ble Marchl campaign among the matters discussed.
Some Wilson political allies in Queens are even
cow planning the Marchl campaign. But Wilson's
most important service has been his pleas to
Rockefeller, successful so far, that the Governor
maintain strict neutrality and not scare off
Marchl.
Why this Is so disheartening to the Lindsay
camp goes to the heart of the grand strategy
charted by the Mayor's political advisers. Although
a succession of civic plagues have made Lindsay
beatable by almost any Democrat today, the
Mayor's men have been counting on the usual
fratricidal warfare by New York Democrats to
rehabilitate Lindsay politically by November.
Indeed, prospects are now better than even
that the Democrats will, as usual, emerge blood-
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Campus opinion . . .
Faculty LiaisonCommittee
Dear Editor:
I am writing to clear what might be a
misunderstanding of an otherwise well-done in
terpretative article by John Dvorak on the Faculty
Liaison Committee. On page 6, there is the state
ment that the "Liaison committee should deter
mine priorities and then inform the legislature and
governor about these needs." The person making
this statement is not identified. There is the possi
bility that juxtaposition of the statement with my
own comments might lead to the assumption that
I was the source; however, I made no comment
about this topic.
IN POINT of fact, I do not subscribe to the
position as it is stated. I feel the Liaison Committee
does not have the time or resources, as presently
constituted, to undertake a job of such magnitude
by itself.
The committee can and does perform a valuable
service by collimating faculty opinions on priorities
and presenting these views to those who are
responsible for the ultimate formalization of
academic and financial policy.
To achieve the purposes of the sentence quoted
above would require a committee with different
composition and formal duties than the Liaison
Committee.
Sincerely yours,
J. M. Daly
Dear Editor,
Huelga is a strike in the Delano, California,
grape growing district that has lasted for an excess
of two years. My sympathy has been with this
cause for some time, and Cesar Chavez' endurance
is admirable.
But despite excellent news coverage of the cause
in addition to RFK's publicized visit with Chavez
and fellow strikers, and an excellent NET Journal
report on the issues and problems, this campus
all of a sudden has sprouted concerned citizenry.
My God gang, you've been missed! Like, this is
real late vibrations. You've latched onto an ember
that has burned and burned and you shout protest
ex post facto, until you're dealing with the ashes.
Huelga is only a part of the total plight of the
Chicano.
The Mexican migratory worker is the most
exploited minority group in the United States, save
only the American Indians. But aside from the
exploitation of the farmer worker by the crew
boss and truck farmer, I have come to admire
the Chicano faternalism and respect his staunch
morality.
But at least 80 per cent of my summer VISTA
work was to channel these people into a middle
class value system which I cannot do. The situation
Is such that I see my assistance as a phony crusade.
The Mexican-American needs little of our help
now. Their militancy is real and promises a future
revolution. A preview was recently evidenced in
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splattered from the mayoral primary with the
weakest possible nominee. To capitalize on this,
however, the Republicans of New York must
observe their usual pragmatic unity and abstention
from ideological quarrels.
ALTHOUGH IT SCARCELY seems possible that
Lindsay could lose the nomination to Marchi;
nobody knows exactly what might happen in the
city's first Republican mayoral primary since 1942.
Nor is Lindsay's substantial left-of-center support
particularly among Negroes represented
among the corporal's guard of 600,000 registered
Republicans eligible to vote in the primary.
Moreover, Marchi is no Stone Age reactionary.
An assimilated Italo-American, Marchi will cut
deeply among the Catholic middle class
overburdened with taxes, wary of Negroes,
disenchanted with Lindsay. While he will get few
defections in the regular Republican organiation,
Marchi can count on fervent organizational backing
from New York's growing Conservative partj.
Thus, Lindsay Republicans have come to the
uncomfortable conclusion that Marchi's candidacy
might well produce an embarrassingly narrow
nomination for the Mayor with ideological lines
inside the party so Indelibly etched that tiiey would
persist into the fall campaign.
THAT IS WHY Lindsay is turning to anybody
who might exert influence on Marchi including
President .s'ixon's operatives. Charles M.-Whorter,
Nixon's unofficial political representative in New
Denver that will grow into something much mora
than a boycott
TRUE, CESAR Chavez asks for your help, and
if you have been living up to la causa, great!
But how can you regurgitate the pounds of grapes
you ate this summer? Not only is it all bela'ed,
but I see pseudo-concern among the ranks. Is this
a cause for some of you to babble over since
the old problems of Vietnam, racism, and poverty
are old hat? -
Robert Kennedy spoke of an unbelievable
blemish he found near, as more than one Nebraskan
puts it, "this great state of Nebraska." The Rosebud
Reservation is what's left of a horrid piece of
American history. I hear frightening tales of cur
rent rancher prejudice and exploitation of the In
dian. If these Indians are literally living in car bodigs
and honestly want some help, let's provide that
help, even if it's a voice of protest to the Bureau
of Indian Affairs.
I invite anyone honestly concerned in making
a trip to the reservation and discovering the pro
blems first hand to join me in such a trip now!
Mark I. DuPree
Dear Editor:
To quote an opinion in Thursday's, 2-20-69, edi
tion, "The city's fire department is another bitch.
Why don't they stay home and let the staff (Harper
Hall's) take care of things. Contrary to popular
belief the staff is more than capable and more
concerned than the firemen ever thought of being."
I think the uninformed person who submitted
this piece of information should be informed of
the real facts so he can bitch at the proper authori
ty. IT SO HAPPENED that when the fire was
discovered by the Resident Director of Harper Hall,
he, the resident director, went into a frenzy "like
a chicken with its head cut off." During his
moments of frenzy, a Harper resident, upon enter
ing Harper and also discovering the fire, calmly
walked over, kicked open the fire extinguisher box
and cooly walked to the elevator and extinguished
the fire.
Now had this resident not come upon the fire
at the time he did, and if all members of Harper's
"capable staff" acted in the same manner that
the resident director did (I am not saying that
they did, however) who knows the extent to which
the fire could have spread.
Considering the firemen were at Harper ap
proximately five (5) minutes after the initial alarm
had been sounded, I feel this student is bitching
at the wrong authority for after all firemen can't
fly.
Signed,
A Somewhat More Informed Harper Resident
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York City, is trying to head off Marchi's candidacy.
Thomas Evans, Mr. Nixon's ex-law partner and
national director of last fall's Citizens for Nixon,
also has agreed to help Lindsay.
In addition, state chairman Charles Schoeneck
met with Marchi in Albany last Thursday,
presumably trying to discourage him. But the man
with the best chance of thwarting the Marchi can
didacy Nelson Rockefeller is silent.
LIBERAL REPUBLICANS plan to appeal to
Rockefeller to forget his ancient personal feud with
Lindsay and do all he can to keep Marchi out.
Sen. Jacob Javits phoned Rockefeller last week
to make just such a plea, but the phone call went
unreturned as Rockefeller left for a long weekend
in the sun.
And Malcolm Wilson, a conservative Republican
who has become Rockefeller's great friend as his
faithful Lieutenant Governor for ten years, has
requested the Governor not to interfere with
Marchi.
Apart from ideological considerations, Wilson's
motives are obvious. Like many other New York
politicians. Wilson doubts that Rockefeller really
will run for a fourth term in 1970. If so, Wilson's
principal rival to succeed Rockefeller would be
Lindsay unless the Mayor were sullied, or even
defeated, in New York City politics this year.
But avoiding just such political intrigue is the
road that the Republicans, as a minority party,
have traveled to remarkable and sustained success
in New York until now.
During my senior year in high school, our
home room classes were subjugated to military
oratory for several days as recruiters from the
armed services urged us to fulfill our "obligations"
in their respective branches.
The Marine sergeant held us captive with his
icy propaganda about manhood.
The Navy recruiter was a little better, simply
describing how the Navy was me perfect way to
see the world.
The fellow from the Air National Guard was
the most: "I have a yellow stripe down my back
and a paunch over my belt-that's why I like
the Guard."
BUT THE MOST memorable of All was the
Army sergeant who recited "Mary had a Little
Lamb" not once, but three times. I recall wondering
at the time just how hard up the Army must
be. During the past week, the question came to
my mind again.
The Robert R. Hinkles of Scappoose, Oregon,
have always been soHd, straight citizens. A year
ago, they probably would have defended the Army
vehemently. But since the drafting of their son
they have become severe critics of that service
branch.
Robert J. Hinkley, you see, is mentally retarded.
So his parents say, at least. He has lived his
twenty-one years in the security of his parents
love, a secluded but happy life.
Robert J. Hinkle is also in excellent physical
condition and that's good enough for the Army.
Young Hinkle was drafted and the Army im
mediately found an ideal place for his
abilities Vietnam.
BUT ROBERTS father objected to his con
scription, believing that the Army had made an
honest mistake and would discharge his son once
the truth was known. Refusing to allow the Army
to take Robert, Mr. Hinkle filed a legal suit, confi
dent that the situation could easily be cleared up.
Last week, U.S. District Court Judge Robert
C. Bellond, claiming he had no power to block
Robert's induction, declared him absent without
leave. When the posse arrived at the Hunkle home,
Robert went into hysterics, kicking, screaming,
sobbing until he finally fainted.
While his father bitterly cursed the Army,
Robert was taken, put under sedation, and then
flown across the continent to Ft. Dix, New Jersey.
IS IT TOO idealistic to believe that Robert
J. Hinkle should be discharged: It is obvious that
he is emotionally unprepared for military service,
that he is a shy, illiterate boy. But the Army,
dedicated to making the world safe for democracy,
free enterprise, and parenthood (Jawohl!) will not
release him.
Of course, the Army isn't completely cruel;
they've brutally torn Robert from his parents, but
they are going to give him some elementary
schooling. His destination now is Germany rather
than Vietnam. In fact, out of sheer generosity (or
is it guilt, perhaps?) the Army is even dropping
the charges against him for being AWOL. It would
be too cynical to quip that the Army's charity
has exceeded its judgment in the Hinkle case the
Army has not shown the slightest amount -of
either.
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