Convention delegates alter ASUN preamble
By Jim Pedersen
Nebraskan Staff Writer
ASUN Constitutional Convention
delegates Saturday altered the
preamble to the ASUN constitution
by striking the clause which said that
ASUN existed with the consent of the
Board of Regents.
The proposal which came at the
request of the Convention's Structure
committee, deleted the consent clause
so that the preamble now reads: "We,
the students of the, University of
Nebraska at Lincoln, do hereby ordain
and establish this constitution for the
administration of student government
and representation."
The change was objected to by
Bruce Cochrane. "If we delete the
Regents clause," Cochrane said, "we
remove the power of ASUN over other
student organizations who are under
Regents charters."
"WE AREN'T removing the support
of the Regents by deletion," Tim Kin
caid added. "We remain under the
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on NU campus
James Farmer, new assistant
secretary of Health, Education and
Welfare, will speak in the Nebraska
Union Centemial Room Wednesday,
March 19.
Farmer will speak at 3: HO. He is
being sponsored by the Afro-American
Collegiate Society and the Union Talks
nnd Topics committee. He is the first
black to accept a high position in
Nixon's cabinet.
Farmer was a follower of radical
pacifist A .J. Muste in the early 1940's.
lie helped found the Congress on
Racial Equality (CORE) in 1942 while
a student at the University of
Chicago.
In 1908 he was an unsuccessful
Republican candidate for the House
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I On campus
I today
Professor J. II. riumb of Christ's
College, University of Cambridge, will
deliver a lecture to Nebraska Career
Scholars on "Sir Winston Churchill:
Historian and Politician" at 3:30 p.m.
In the small auditorium of the
Nebraska Union. Plumb Is the author
and editor of several books and a
reviewer for "Times Literary Sup
plement" and "The Saturday
Review. 'All students and faculty are
Invited to attend.
The Nebraska Union Forums Com
mittee Is now accepting applications
for staff positions for next year's
University of Nebraska Model United
Nations. The conference will be held
nt the Nebraska Center on December
12th and 13th. Interested un
dergraduates or graduate students
may nigu up lu the Union Program
Office starting today
Dr. John Brumbnugh, professor cf
foology t.t the University, will speak
nt the Alpha Gl Delta house on March
18 at 9 p.m. Interested students and
faculty are invited to attend.
"Festival,' the foreljrn film
scheduled for Wednesday, March 19,
has been replaced with Bergman's
Wild Strawberries."
Regents, but it simply isn't necessary
to say so."
According to Orville Jones, Struc
ture committee member the com
mittee reached the decision to drop
the clause by asking whether ASUN
derives its powers from representing
students or from a suggestion by the
Regents to establish a student
government.
"Does ASUN have power because
it represents students or because the
Regents say it has power?" he asked.
"ASUN can have power as a senate
without the Regents," Randall Prier
said, "but if the Regents can consent
to student government, it implies that
they can remove the powers of ASUN
by dissenting." ASUN should move
in the direction of being independent
and deriving its powers from the
students, he added.
Legally, ASUN operates at the will
of the Regents, but there is no reason
not to delete the consent clause, ac
cording to Cliff Sather. The change
is not really important.
The
will speak
Wednesday
of Representatives from New York's
Bedford Stuyvesant district.
The grandson of a former slave,
he received a B.S. in chemistry at
the age of 18. He earned a bach
elor of divinity degree at 21.
Farmer was thrust into national pro
minence during a hunt for slain
Mississippi civil rights workers. He
led CORE workers in the first
Freedom Bus Ride, resulting in a 40
day jail sentence in Mississippi.
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"Grooms collects his symbols over a wide range of possibilities
which include Little Egypt and Jane Addams, Al Capone and
Louis Sullivan, and they are all present on his triumphal arch
like so many municipal household gods." City of Chisago by
Ued Grooms.'
"I get sick and tired of having to
get the approval of the Regents for
everything," Mike Naeve, ASUN
president, said. "I helped elect a
regent last November, and I think
he has more responsibility to me as
a citizen than I to him as president
of ASUN."
THE CONVENTION was marked by
the absence of many of the delegates.
At no time during the meeting were
there more than 19 of the 28 delegates
present.
After a 30 minute delay in waiting
for a quorum, the meeting opened.
Prier immediately moved that the
number of delegates for a quorum
in the future be set at 15. His motion
passed.
Although any legislation placed
before the convention should be
automatically tabled as major
legislation, the convention consistently
suspended the rules thus allowing an
immediate vote on Saturday's pro
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Professors analyze
by John Dvorak
Nebraskan Staff Writer
He's trying to take the middle path.
He's trying to meet the objections
of hawks and doves. But he may not
be succeeding.
Continuing his analysis of President
Richard M. Nixon's decision to deploy
a modified antiballistic missile (ABM)
system, Dr. Jasper Shannon, pro
fessor of political science said. "I
really don't know how he could have
made any other decision. To have
gone either way would have caused
severe dissidence."
The compromise decision, an
nounced late last week, was not
received with enthusiasm. For in
stance, Senators Mark Hatfield and
Charles Percy have already indicated
that they will strongly oppose the $6
or $7 billion expenditure, Shannon
pointed out. Yet, if Nixon would have
scrapped the ABM idea altogether,
he might well have lost Defense
Secretary Melvin Laird.
Nixon was caught on the horns of
a dilemma. Shannon said. The Presi
dent doesn't want to force an arms
race with Red China or Russia, so
he is trying not to go the whole way.
The ABM controversy actually
began when President Lyndon B.
Johnson was still in office. He wanted
to place ABM's around large cities
for protection, but the idea was
suspended.
What is the ABM system a pro
posal that has caused great furor
between hawks, doves and even those
In between?
The system, explained C a p t .
Philip E. Moore, an Air Force ROTC
instructor, consists of radars, com
puters and two different types of
missiles.
Radar sitings are fed into a com
puter which tells from where enemy
projectiles are coming. Long-range
Spartan missiles are then fired.
Should any enemy missiles get
through the Spartan barrage, the
short range Sprint, fastest missile on
earth, takes over.
Moore, an Air Force missile launch
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posals. In only one instance did a
motion for suspending the rules fail.
THE STRUCTURE committee
recomended that Article IV, Section
5 of the constitution which deals with
the powers of ASUN be expanded to
include a paragraph which would
allow ASUN to "exercise all powers
and responsibilities dealing with solely
student affairs." ,
The subsequent six subsections were
in effect all those articles concerning
participation by students in the
allocation of fees, in determining
social regulations, housing rules and
regulations for participation in student
activities which made up Government
Bill No. 24 passed last semester by
Senate.
Naeve opposed the addition of these
articles to the constitution.
"A constitution should be made to
last," he said. "There may come a
time in the future when we won't
want to worry about social regulations."
NEBRASKA
officer for the last five years, said
that both successes and failures have
highlighted the tests of the two
missiles. The exact percentage of
successes and failures is classified.
The thin system, which Nixon ap
proved, means there would "not be
very many missiles," according to
Moore. The ABMs would protect many
American intercontinental ballistic
missile bases. In a thick system,
every large city would be surrounded.
That is the eventual goal of Nixon,
according to Dr. Stephen L. Rozman,
assistant professor of political science.
"He wants to go all the way,"
Rozman said. "This step will justify
the next step, and the next step will
justify the next.." There really is no
compromise on the ABM system,
Rozman continued. You can't be half
pregnant. You are either pregnant or
you're not.
The problem is, Rozman said, that
the United States is too hung up on
power. In the name of national
security, the President can d o
anything he wants, he added.
Nixon emphasized that his decision
would not promote a costly and
undesirable arms race between world
powers, but Rozman disagrees.
"It will promote suspicion and will
make de-escalation that much more
insurmountable," he commented. "It
will be another factor to promote
distrust."
Shannon called Nixon's statement
"wishful thinking." Ingredients for an
arms race are there, he explained.
Another assistant professor of
political science. Dr. Joan K. Wadlow.
believes that Nixon's decision was
"very rational."
"It Increases the credibility of our
deterent system," she said. "It is of
primary importance that the United
States have such a deterent."
It will be impossible for Peking or
Moscow to believe that they can get
by with an attack on the United States
without suffering retaliation, Mrs.
Wadlow said.
American capacity to retaliate will
"If it be admitted that Gallo's works are satirical in intent, then it must also be understood that
is the satire of identification and affection." Girl on a couch by Frank Gallo. It is part of the 1968
International Biennial Exhibition of Art, on display at Sheldon Gallery March 17-April 13.
WHY MAKE a constitution that will
be obsolete, Naeve asked. Govern
ment Bill No. 24 is just as binding
as the constituion only it is in the
form of legislation.
Prier suggested that since the
students must approve the constitu
tion, this would provide an opportunity
for a referendum on Government Bill
No. 24. A referendum specifically for
the government bill was set for some
time in February by Senate but was
later withdrawn.
When a move to suspend the rules
to vote on the addition to the con
stitution failed, the proposal was
tabled.
All other minor changes were made
in the constitution as the result of
proposals by the Structure committee.
The Miscellaneous committee sub
mitted lesislation dealing with NSA
delegates and the NSA coordinator
which was also approved by the convention.
ABM decision
be protected, and that's important,
she said. We can't let ourselves be
unnecessarily exposed.
All three political scientists agreed
that Nixon indicated a strong fear
of Red China, and used that fear
partly to justify the deployment of
ABMs.
Actually, Mrs. Wadlow said, there
is a fantastic gap between the United
States and China.
Dr. Luke T. Lee, visiting professor
of political science, also discounted
the Red Chinese threat. Lee received
an A.B. degree from St. Johns' in
Shanghai. China, before the Com
munists took the mainland.
"People say that as soon as Red
Greek Week begins
'An attempt at awareness-' is tlt
theme that the executive committee
has given to the programs for Greek
Week. March 17-22.
"This is the first year we have ever
attempted to express and utilize a
theme in our programs," said June
Wagoner, co-chairman of the ex
ecutive committee.
"We selected this theme because
we realize that there is a tendency
for greeks to isolate themselves from
their community." she said. "They
either Identify only with their houses
or only with other greeks."
This isolation is not just a problem
with greeks, Miss Wagoner continued,
but can be seen throughout the
University community. The com
mittee Is trying to utilize the convlent
unit of a greek house to break through
this wall of Isolation, she said.
The program consists of two parts,
a speakers series and a carnival.
"We felt that we should completely
break with past traditions In planning
this year's activities," said Gary
Warren, co-chairman. "The speakers
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A subsection was added to the sec
tion on the powers of the second vice
president which provides that the NSA
coordinator shall be the second vice
president. The convention also approved an
addition to the powers of the Ex
ecutive committee of ASUN which
allows the committee to appoint NSA
convention delegates from the student
body as a whole. An added subsection
provides that Senate must approve
the committee's appointments.
According to Cochrane, the pro
vision for Executive committee ap
pointment of NSA delegates was sug
gested in hope that the committee
will appoint students who will be in
a position the following year to im
plement what they learn at the NSA
Congress.
The proposals made by the Reap
portionment committee were tabled
and will be discussed and voted on
during the next session of the conven-tion.
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China has a delivery system they will
use it," Lee noted. "That idea is far
fetched. Red China has always said
they would not be the first to use
nuclear weapons."
Red China's adventurism is far less
than Russia's, Lee continued. Of the
world's great powers, all have trooDS
in somebody else's country except
Red China.
While Nixon's pronouncement car
ries great influence, the ABM system
is by no means a reality yet. For
such an expenditure. Congressional
approval is needed and it won't come
automatically. Mrs. Wadlow pointed
out.
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-represent -individual" house Involve
ment, while the carnival represents
a whole system effort."
Warren stressed that this was not
another form of isolation.
"The carnival is opened to all. we
want everyone to come. T.ie proceeds
will go to the Cedars Home for
Children and will involve greeks again
in community awareness." Warren
said.
Miss Wagoner and Warren agreed
that it would be hard to measure the
success of this year's effort.
"What we are attempting is to turn
the focus of Greeks outwards. One
appearance of a state legislator or
administrator in a house won't ac
complish this aim but maybe it will
start the process." Miss Wagoner
said.
Warren stressed again that the
Carnival and the speakers in the
houses were open to all.
He said the times for the speakers
could be obtained from individual
house members and the Carnival will
be held Saturday from 7-11 p.m. In
the Nebraska Union ballroom.
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