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THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1969
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
VOL 92, NO. 78
Graduate
defeated
by John Dvorak
Nebratkan Staff Writer
Selleck graduate students are
unhappy and downcast about the
defeat of their coed visitation pro
posal. The Regents voted unanimously
Monday not to permit the visitations
that had been previously approved by
the NU housing policy comittee.
"We were surprised and not too
thrilled of course," said one coed,
Elsie R. Shore. Perhaps since there
was no personal dialogue between the
graduate students and the Regents,
the Board was not familiar enough
with the situation, she suggested.
THE PROPOSAL, made to the
regents by Dean G. Robert Ross,
would have allowed graduate students
and foreign students living in Benton
and Fairfield Halls to have visitors
in dormitory rooms noon-11 p.m.
weekdays and noon-1 a.m. on Fridays,
Saturdays and Sundays.
"This was not 24 hour-seven days
a week visitation," Miss Shore pointed
out. "Visitors would have come only
on an invitation basis," she said.
The two dormitories are unique,
since they house only foreign or
graduate students. Nearly every stu
dent is over 21.
"Personally, I am offended at the
idea that I can't take care of myself,"
Miss Shore said. "I think you should
have the right to bring whoever you
want into your own room within
limits of community life of course."
THE STUDENTS themselves would
have policed the situation, she said.
The graduate students should have
this right, she continued. Many are
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STORY AT RIGHT
"A decade of hope; a decade of doubt" Sander Vanocur tells
his audience.
University student battling draft board
with support of j ournalism school professor
by Jim Pedersen
Nebraskan Staff Writer
A University student with the back
ing of a professor in the school of
journalism is batling his local draft
board which reclassified him I-A and
referred his appeal to the State
Selective Service office all wltndn
a week.
Tom Anderson, a senior Journalism
major from Fairbury, said Wednesday
he will take his appeal to the national
level if necessary.
"I am being railroaded into Induc
tion by a draft board consisting of
senile senior citizens and a vindictive
secretary of the board," he said
Wednesday. "I think I can uppcal my
case for two years just on what the
bord has done to me so far."
Anderson Is now registered with the
University as a part-time student
tarrying 11 hours. The law regarding
il-S deferments states that to be con
sidered a full-time student it is
necessary to carry 12 hours credit.
ALTHOUGH I AM technically a
part-time student, I am doing more
work now by taking "Journalism 171"
than I have in any previous semester,"
Anderson added. "1 was taking 14
hours but I found that the load was
too much so I dropped a courso."
According to Jim Davis, assistant
coed visitation hours plea
in Board of Regents action
older people, with many
responsibilities.
One student is an English Instructor.
Three nuns live in the complex. One
student is in his fifties and studying
for his doctorate. Some of the people
are teaching assistants and tutors.
"It's silly to treat these people,
many of whom are married. In this
way," she said.
THE IDEA began last October, ac
cording to Rochelle L. Roth, who
helped draft the formal proposal. The
proposal, sent through proper chan
nels, was approved by the University
Housing Committee and administra
tion officials, including Ross, dean of
student affairs.
The Board of Regents have studied
the proposal since late fall, although
it took no action. Without advance
warning the Regents then considered
and defeated the proposal last Mon
day. The president of the Board of
Regents, Richard E. Adkins, said that
present policy is "no coed visitation
in the dormitories." That was the
reason for the proposal's defeat, he
said Wednesday.
Also, it is not fair to grant one
dormitory visitaton privileges, and not
offer the same privileges to other
dorms, Adkins said.
THE ACTION was unanimous, he
pointed out. But if the grad student
desire, the Board could consider the
proposal again sometime in the
future.
At least some of the graduate
students feel the University is behind
the times in not granting the
professor of journalism, students tak
ing "Journalism 171" are advised not
to take mre than 12 hours.
"Some students do take more than
12 hours during the some semester
and they take 171, but we don't
recommend it," he said Wednesday.
"The majority of students don't carry
more than 12 hours."
According to Anderson, the Jef
ferson County draft board did not
know that he was not a full-time stu
dent until he notified the board.
"I WROTE THEM a letter explaining
everything, and Davis called the
secretary to explain my situation In
the journalism school," he continued.
"Within five days I was I-A."
Anderson then sent his card back,
and in two days he received word
that his entire file had been forwarded
to the State Selective Service head
quarters to handle his appeal.
"By law I have the right to appeal
my classification in person within 30
days," Anderson said. "The
secretary of the board is bypassing my
right to a personal appearance hear
ing by sending the file to Lincoln and
the State board."
"I have a feeling that my dnft
board never saw my file or letter,"
he added. "I think that the secretary
Is handling the whole thins."
privileges. Some western Universities
have had some form of visitation since
the 1940's.
Bill Jacklin, a 28-year-old resident
of Benton Hall, was a counseler in
an Indiana University residence hall.
Open visitation, seven days a week,
was the policy, he said.
The demeanor of residents improv
ed after the policy was instigated,
Jacklin said. The boys stopped walk
ing around in various stages of un
dress and bad language noticeably
decreased.
NO SERIOUS problems existed, he
said, but at NU, the Board of Regents
just does not have high respect for
young people, especially graduate
students. The Regents apparently feel
that students can't handle themselves,
he said.
Jacklin emphasized that the
University was not ready for an ex
tremely liberal policy. "At Michigan
State, I think, there are only two rules
for dormitory visitation," he said.
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for new pledge
Interfraternity Council ( I F C )
Wednesday amended last year's pledge
education contract to include all the
alterations and additions suggested by
the IFC pledge education com
mittee. In the crucial third clause concern
ing hazing, the council in a roll call
vote of 16-10 agreed to add a sentence
prohibiting and defining "line-ups."
A NEW CONTRACT was presented
to the IFC last week for approval
by Steve Sumnick, pledge education
committee chairman, but the contract
was tabled. At the opening of old
business. Sumnick withdrew his mo
tion for approval, and proceeded to
propose the individual sections of the
Vanocur
by Ed Anson
Nebraskan Staff Writer
Student protesters are generally
"smug and fat-cat," Sander Vanocur
told a University audience Wednes
day. But they are probably not more
so than the people they are dealing
with, he added.
Vanocur. Washington correspondent
for NBC News, spoke at the East
Campus Union about what he called
"a decade of hope and a decade of
doubt."
A GENERATION ago, he said,
parents complained that their children
were apolitical and too interested in
material things. Today they complain
because students are "to political"
and not interested enough in material
things, he said.
These students have done o n
weekends what f u 1 1 1 1 m e com
mentators, politicians and pundits
failed to do: drive Lyndon Baines
Johnson out of office. They out did the
Tet offensive in forcing Vietnam
policy change, he said.
"I feel change in the air," Vanocur
enthused, "and I feel that change is
what will save this nation." He said
that change will not come without
- The Jefferson County board
secretary, Mrs. Lola Veitsch, claimed
Wednesday that Anderson had been
told he would have a personal hearing
in Fairbury and would be notified as
to the date.
"Anderson was not a full-time stu
dent so he was reclassified," she con
tinued. "We don't have to give a
reason for reclassifying anyone'
Anderson could graduate in August
by attending summer school.
However, his situation is complicated
by a desire to take part In the
Journalism school Internship program
for which he would work during the
summer months at the Scottsbluff
Star-Herald.
"By participating in the internship
Srogrwm I wouldn't graduate until
anuary, 1970," according to An
derson. "But I would get valuable
experience which would be Important
to me In my career."
DAVIS, IN INTERCEDING for An
derson, said he emphasized the impor
tance of the internship program.
"I told the secretary that we con
sider the lnernship program essential
to our journalism sequence," he said.
"We think it is as much a part of
tlte sequence as any classroom
course."
Davis added that he emphasized in
the telephone conversation that
"(1) No one can have a member of
the opposite sex in his or her room
for more than 24 hours. (2) No sexual
intercourse is allowed in the dorm,"
he said.
Jacklin was at a graduate dorm
at Indiana University. "That was
where it happened, so to speak," he
said. "Controversial discussions,
speakers; that was where the acton
was. Graduate students did not want
to isolate themselves in an off-campus
apartment."
The situation is different at NU,
Jacklin said. There seems to be a
generd fear of instigating more liberal
policies.
NO ONE KNOWS what the future
holds. The graduate students have not
decided on any further action.
"We were counting on this for a
long time," Miss Roth said. "We may
try to establish more personal contact
with the Board of Regents, if this
is possible, and find out why it was
defeated. We'll just keep working on
amendment
contract
new contract as amendments tn lt
year's contract.
The largest amount of discussion
and controversy arose over the
sentence defining line-ups as "pledges
standing at attention or being verbally
or physically assaulted.
"Line-ups are only one way of get
ting a pledge class together to tell
them something, and they can be
constructive," according to Dick
Ilolman of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
"This sentence is an attempt to pre
vent degrading of pledges."
JOHN J A R C II 0 W, representing
Delta Upsilon, said that "fraternities
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speaks of
violence, but counselled those seeking
violent change to count the cost.
"CHANGE IS going to come," he
said. "Make no mistake. We can't
resist it. But if we do. we'll be
overwhelmed by it."
There are "winds of change" grow
ing in Congress, he said, adding that
there are usually "other winds" com
ing from that body. However, Con
gress is moving toward a "politics
of quality rather than the old politics
of quantity," where progress is
measured by the pound of legislation,
he said.
But real change will not come from
the federal government, the com
mentator added. Students are forcing
change, he explained. Politicians are
finding that it's not only a moral good
but a political good to work for tax
reform and against the welfare scan
dal and pollution, he said.
VANOCUR REFERRED to the
passing decade as the decade oi
doubt. It was characterized by a
foreign policy predicated on the
assumption that the United States has
unlimited strength. But the Vietnam
war has taught the U.S. it is not
although Anderson dropped three
hours, he was not dodging the draft
since those three hours would not af
fect his graduation date.
"I OFFERED TO GET letters from
faculty members testifying that An
derson was not trying to evade the
draft," Davis continued." The secre
tary was uninterested and said such
Information was irrelevant."
Anderson, who spent his frestiman
year of college at the U.S. Naval
Academy at Annapolis, Md.t said he
turned down an offer by the Navy
to join the Naval Reserves because
he wanted to finish his college educa
tion. According to Davis, Mrs. Veitsch
indicated that since Anderson had not
taken the opportunity to join the
Naval Reserves, the board would not
be sympathetic to his case.
"It is a perfect example of the
selective service bureaucracy," Davis
added. "They aren't interested in the
end result which is that Anderson is
perfectly willing to go into the service
In January when he gradutes."
Anderson is not confident that his
appeal will be granted.
"I have been told that the state
board will give my case careful con
sideration," he said, "but 1 tia bi4
optimistic."
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Constructon is underway on the new undergraduate library to be
located on the first floor of Nebraska Hall. Completion date is
set for September, 1969.
Nebraska Hall addition
to house imdergrad library
by liuchittar Singh
Nebraskan Staff Writer
As a result of the University survey
conducted by Taylor. Lieberfeld and
Heldman architects in the mid 1960's.
the University's Central Planning
Committee has made recommenda
tions for the expansion of library
space.
Approximately 60,000 square feet of
undeveloped space in Nebraska Hall
change
omnipotent, the former Army officer
told the applauding audience.
The 1970's, he said, will be the
decade of hope. The electronic media
are affecting attitudes toward world
events, he explained. Referring to
Marshall McLuhan's theories about
the electronic revolution, Vancouver
quipped, "I don't understand him but
I think he's on to something."
Broadcast news, he said, has caused
history to become looped. He explain
ed that a video tape may be formed
into a loop and made to replay con
tinuously. He challenged the audience
to try and distinguish between a
report on the Vietnam war made two
years ago and one made just
recently.
EVEN HALTING the bombing on
the North has not changed the situa
tion significantly, he claimed. The
U.S. is now delivering more bombs
on the South, than it did on the North
and South combined previously, he
said.
Vanocur related American policy
makers to "the dress manufacturer
who was losing a dollar on every dress
but hoped to make up his profit in
volume."
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Selective Service Board . . . "beauracracy" ... is the adjective at
tached to his draft board by Tom Anderson, senior in journalism,
who was recently reclassified 1-A. Tha department is aiding And
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have been assigned for an Un
dergraduate Library'- It should be
ready for use in the 1969-70 school
year, according to Frank Lundy,
library director.
The Undergraduate Library in
Nebraska Hall will seat 1.000 stdent3.
The College Library, to be housed
in the terrace level of a proposed cen
tral library expansion will seat
another 750 students. Emphasis is
being placed initially on providing a
complete library service especially for
freshmen and sophomores.
JUNIOR AND SENIOR level
students will also find these facilities
convenient for many of their reading
and study hall needs. Lundy said.
Ail of the west half of the building
(slightly more than half) is now under
development for the Undergraduate
Library on the second and third floors,
he said.
The Undergraduate Library will
serve student residents in the
dormitories and commuter students
at times most convenient for these
groups; that is, late in afternoons,
late into evenings and all weekend,
Lundy explained.
In the central area of each of the
two floors the second and third
floors of the building there is to
be a bookstack, separated from and
surrounded by an extensive and con
tinuous reader area.
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ON THE SECOND floor this
bookstack will contain a course
related and general collection of 50,000
volumes. It will also have a reserve
book collection up to 15,000 volumes.
The central book stack on the third
floor will house up to 100,000 volumes
from other parts of the library system
which are already undersized.
The entire project will be well
lighted with flouorescent lamps. Thert
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