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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1969
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
VOL. 29, No. 88
Tuesday's Hyde Park discusses evolution
of U.S. civil rights movement since King
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Sam Cornelius director of the Nebraska Technical
Assistance Agency; "Any body in the year 1969 who
thinks the blacks have to wait for the Communists
to tell them what to do is crazy."
Vigil, memorial service
honor King Wednesday
A silent peace vigil and a memorial
service are scheduled for Wednesday
as part of the week-long series of
programs honoring the late Dr. Martin
Luther King.
The peace vigil will take place at
14th and R Sts. in front of the Ad
ministration Building from 12:30 p.m.
until 3:30 p.m., according to Susie
Jenkins of the Nebraska Union Pro
gram Council. Miss Jenkins urged
students and faculty to attend for
part or all of the vigil which im
mediately precedes the memorial ser
vice. "The vigil Is In honor of the Ideals
and goals of Dr. King," Miss Jenkins
said. "We want to remember not only
his thoughts on civil rights, but also
his views on war and the entire broth
erhood of man."
Following the vigil, the Afro-Amcr-Ican
Collegiate Society will present a
memorial service honoring King at
3:30 p.m. in the Union Ballroom, ac
cording to Lonetta Harrold, Society
member. I
"This program evolved from our de-
sire to do something concrete in honor
of Dr. King," Miss Harrold said. 'Both
blacks and whites have helped set up
the whole week of events."
Following is the schedule for the
memorial service:
Prayer and Benediction, Joe But
ler; Eulogy, Lonetta Harrold;
Music, Alpha Williams and Jarvis
Green;
"I Have a Dream," recited by
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Schedule of Programs
1 Wednesday, April 2
i 12:30-3:30 Peeace Vigil, Corner of 14th and R Streets
3:30 Martin Luther King Memorial Program, Union Ballroom, MIJv
1 readings, singing and the black and white views of King's death,
1 presented by Tom Windham ami Phil Scribner
I Thursday, April 3
I 12:30-3:30 Films on Black America, Union Lounge
1 "A Time For Burning"
"Freedom Movement," 1877 to present
"Martin Luther King, Jr: A Man of Peace"
"Martin Luther King"
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Black views on white America voiced
by Jim I'edersen
Nebraskan Staff Writer
Martin Luther King Week opened
Monday with scant participation from
a largely white audience in a question
and answer panel discussion by
members of the Afro-American Col
legiate Society.
Prior to the start of the discussion
held In the Nebraska Union lounge,
Rev. Donald Immlng of the Newman
Center gave a short eulogy for late
former President D w I g h t D.
Elsenhower.
4 After dedicating the week to King.
"th symbol of the revolution and the
Moses of the Negro people," Lenetta
Harrold. who moderate 4 the
discussion, asked the panel why there
Is not more participation by blacks
in student activities and social functions.
Debra Cruder;
Poems, Alfred Lewis and Roger
Elliott;
Opinions, Tom Windham and Phil
Scribner.
Two ASUN Senators seek
re-election on spring ballot
by Jim Pederscn
Nebraskan Staff Writer
Only two ASUN senators have in
dicated that they will definitely seek
re-election to Senate in the spring
general election.
In a survey taken recently by the
Dally Nebraskan, 13 senators said
they would not run again for Senate
and four senators said they had not
yet decided.
Of the original 35 senators elected
last April, eight were replaced during
the course of the year through elec
tions when they resigned, switched
colleges or were dropped from Senate.
Three of those 35 will graduate In
June.
THREE MEMBERS of Senate will
be seeking executive positions in the
upcoming elections and are not cross
filing for a senate seat. Finally, Dave
Landis, Ron Pfeiffer and Dennis Col-
"The channels to participate and
achieve roles of leadership have been
closed to us," Jessie Payne said.
"Social life Is reserved for white
students."
The passive attitude of the black
student is drawn from the con
servative attitude of the whites on
campus, he added.
"We feel as much for America and
we are as much a part of America
as whites are," Payne continued, "but
we aren't as much a part of society
as whites."
Why should blacks go to a party
when the only people who will be
th-re are white? Alfred Lewis arked.
"I get sick of hearing from whites
that they know what our problem is
and they want to help," he said. "If
by Susie Jenkins
Nebraskan Staff Writer
A special Hyde Park Tuesday was
the vehicle for a discussion of the
U.S. Negro civil rights movement and
its evolution from the philosophies of
Dr. Martin Luther King.
The Hyde Park was part of the
week-long series of programs honor
ing the late Dr. King.
Wayne Williams,' moderator for the
Hyde Park panel, and president of
the Afro-American Collegiate Society,
criticized white society for being
uninformed about the problems of
racism in America.
"I HAVE little faith In discussing the
race issue with any white person,"
Williams said. "There is no excuse
today not to know what the race issue
Is all about."
"We don't have time now to gather
up disciples and preach the gospel.
All you have to do is scrape up $1.95
and buy a book to be informed.
Willirms said that the code of non
violence advocated by Dr. King is
losing relevance, and he blamed this
on white attitudes.
"A few years before he (King) died,
he was slowly realizing that non
violence was not the answer,"
Williams said. "That assassin's bullet
that killed Martin Luther King was
your last hope for non-violence."
"DER KING did his thing, and you
(whites) proved him to be wrong and
(proved) Stokely Carmichael to be
right."
Joe Butler, University ad
ministrator, called Dr. King "a vital
bridge across the chasm that existed
at that time."
King didn't compromise, Butler
said, and that is the "key."
"His tactics were extremely ef
fective for that time," he said.
lins could not be reached.
The two senators who have stated
their intentions to run for another
term are Tom Wiese and Bruce
Cochrane.
"I think there Is a lot that can
be done with Senate," Wlese said.
"Senate has made progress in the
last year and it will be even more
meaningful in the future."
Wiese feels that Government Bill
No. 24 and the Student In the
Academic Community document are
Steps toward more equitable student
participation in University policy
making decisions.
Cochrane said that he simply en
Joyed participating in Senate the past
year and hoped for another year of
Senate work.
ALTHOUGH TIME was an Impor
tant factor in the decision of those
who chose not to run, many senators
had far less kind remarks for ASUN
Senate.
"I would prefer to work on a com
mittee for ASUN," according to Glenn
Nees, "than come Wednesday after
noons to Senate and watch everyone
play the game."
"I worked on reapportionment for
seven months only to see it fall,"
Dave Bingham, a member of the
ASUN Reapportionment committee,
said. "If the students don't care enough
to vote on a referendum, why should
the representatives care?"
Mary McClymont also said she
would not run and added that "the
apathy on this campus is sad."
Bill Mobley, who Is involved in the
planning of the Centennial College,
feels there are more significant things
student can do on campus.
"RIGHT NOW I am more Interested
in education," he continued. "ASUN
In the future may be insignificant
anyway."
you know our problem, then I have
to ask 'How do you know our pro
blem?" "Are you going to tell me you lived
In a ghetto for a weekend? Big deal.
I lived In one for 17 years. There
isn't anything you can tell me about
them."
According to Lewis, student
government will never give power to
blacks, but blacks can have a voice
on campus through the Afro-American
Collegiate Society.
"I came to the University with high
ideals about dormitory government,"
Jerome Drckeford said. "I ran for
president of my floor and I only got
one vote my own."
The only way for black Indent.
to get power on campus Is to band
together, he continued. ASUN could
In answer to a question concerning
his aliffiation with the University Ad
ministration, Butler explained the
position of many of the blacks his age.
"MY GENERATION got the restau
rants and had catsup poured down our
necks," he said. 'The restaurants are
open and now we are in the ad
ministrations. It's your turn to do your
thing."
"I can't revert now. I do mine as
a 40 year old man."
Sam Cornelius, director of the state
Technical Assistance Agency, is black
and handles appropriation of all state
connected welfare funds.
"Anybody in the year 1969 who
thinks the blacks have to wait for
the Communists to tell them what
to do is crazy," Cornelius said.
Butler noted that after King's death,
white citizens were expecting another
"long, hot summer" in 1968.
"Lincoln wanted a riot so badly they
could almost taste it," he said. "But
it didn't come. We fooled you."
Williams explained the lack of
violence last summer, postulating that
the so-called militants now realize it
would be foolish to resort to violence
"until they have some sort or
organized guerilla movement."
"People ask why, with the ratio of
weapons, we would even think about
fighting," he said. "You fight when
you're frustrated even if you can't
win."
PART OF the black revolution's tac
tics is to apply pressure on President
Richard Nixon, Williams said.
"We want him in his present posi
tion," he said. "Unless he wants the
cities to be his Vietnam, he must
act now."
"When violence does occur," Butler
For others,
outside Senate
another term.
time committments
precluded serving
"I don't feel that I have enough
time to devote to Senate to be an
effective senator," Teena Kudlacek
said.
According to Georgia Glass,
graduate studies and work in the
Centennial College will make another
Senate term impossible.
The eligible senators who said they
will not run include Bingham, Nees,
Mobley, McClymont, Kudlacek, Glass,
Kent Boyer, Curt Donaldson, Carol
Madson, Chris Seeman, Paula Tiegler,
Gary Toebben and Dave Rassmusen.
Those senators who will graduate are
John Wirth, Jim Sherman and Fred
Bocsiger.
SHONE COTNER Sue Thompson,
Tom Lonnquist and Larry Anderson
said they had made no decision as
whether to run again.
"I am loaning heavily against run
ning right now," according to An
derson. "I wasn't going to run for
sure until the constitution failed. I
don't know now."
Lonnquist's Senate plans hinge on
whether he will be attending the
University next year.
The seven senators who were
replaced through elections were
Jack Adklns, Larry Donat, Gary
Hubbard, Helen Larson. Mark
Moseman, Donn Rojeskl and Tom
Morgan who moved from his Speaker
Pro-tempore position to first vice
president when Craig Dreeszen
resigned as ASUN president.
Bill Chaloupka, Bob Zucker and
Diane Theisen are the three senators
seeking executive posts.
With or without reapportionment,
ASUN Senate will be composed of
many new faces after the spring
election.
not do anything, even if It tried, he
charged.
Miss Harrcld then opened the
discussion to questions from the au
dience. There was no Immediate
response. In the course of the forum
only five students actually directed
questions to the panel.
One student asked the panel if
blacks are willing to accept whites
In the black movement In general and
the Afro-American Society in
particular.
"1 am Interested in whites who will
join our numbers under our
leadership." Lewis said "Whites have
led us too much."
"I ant afraid that whiles will lead
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said, "I try best to understand it.'
Any activist programs should be
studied for application to other situa
tions, he said, whether it is students
or black civil rights workers.
Cornelius noted that the aftermath
of 'ghetto" violence is conversion of
the inner city into a "laboratory"
where whites come to do research
and "tell us why we're rioting."
"Instead, we have to get people into
city and state governments who have
sensitivity," he said. "Also, we must
bring about greater awareness from
the citizens who have gone out to
suburbia."
Cornelius told whites in the audience
to start within their own spheres of
influence.
"THIS IS the hardest place to start,
because when you begin to talk you
begin to lose friends," he said.
He especially urged members of
fraternities and sororities to begin
work.
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Afro-American Collegiate Society president Wayne Williams:
"That assassin's bullet that killed Dr. Martin Luther King was
your last hope for non-violence."
Petition drive now under ivay
to place constitution on ballot
A petition drive is currently un
derway to place a new ASUN con
stitution on the spring general election
ballot, according to Bruce Cochrane,
ASUN senator, and drive sponsor.
"Judging from past referendums, It
Is difficult to stimulate voter interest
at any time other than the spring elec
tion," Cochrane said late Tuesday.
About 900 signatures would be
needed, he continued. Cochrane's
proposed constitution differs only in
places from a previous document
written by the constitutional conven
tion several weeks ago. That con
stitution was placed before t h e
students last Friday, but not enough
votes were garnered to validate the
referendum.
"NO ONE was entirely pleased with
the constitutional convention's docu
ment," Cochrane said. "There appears
to be several main areas of dissent."
Under Cochrane's document, the co
ops would be considered off-campus
groups, not on-campus groups as the
Nine amendments passed
in A WS Constitution vole
University women passed nine of
eleven proposed amendments to the
AWS Constitution in an all-campus
referendum held last Thursday, Fri
day, and Monday.
The two measures which failed to
secure the 825 votes needed to pass
would have lowered the minimum
grade-point average for officers, con
gress members and court of appeals
members to 2.0. AWS will revert to
rules In the old Constitution regarding
those Issues, requiring a grade of 2.4
for president and the vice-presidents
and 2.2 for congresswomen and court
members.
Article HI, pertaining to mem
bership, passed, and will change the
AWS Constitution to read that all
undergraduate women "are entitled"
to membership In AWS."
Changes In tho Executive Branch
of AWS will abolish the Cabinet veto,
provide for a Speaker of the Congress
and allow the new AWS Congress to
select three members to serve on the
Cabinet, These ""visions passed by
a vote of 923 to 51.
Many white students feel that the
only way to accomplish anything U
to "go down to the ghetto" and help,
Williams said.
"However, our attitude now is
control our own destiny," he said.
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ONE LISTENER told Williams that
there were many sincere but "naive
and ignorant" whites, who really did
wish to do something constructive, but
did not know how to start.
"That question can't be answered
for you by another person," Butler
said. "All we can do is give sugges
tions and guidelines. Once you have
made a personal commitment, the
opportunities will arise."
Williams explained that the Afro
American students at the University
are now willing to work within the
boundaries of the institution "as long
as we can see that our goals are being
accomplished.
"But once that door is shut, we
will be willing to use whatever means
necessary to achieve them."
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previous proposed constitution was
written.
Concerning Government Bill 24, the
tone of Cochrane's constitution is dif
ferent. He Is against "dogmatically
demanding power." Cochrane said
that the wording of the previous pro
posed constitution was not the best
way of accomplishing the goals of
Government Bill 24.
There are several other differences
between Cochrane's constitution and
the previous document. Under
Cochrane's proposal, off-campus
students would have one senator for
every 2,000 people. The previous con
stitution proposed a 1-1500 ratio.
UNDER COCHRANE'S proposal.
Greeks living in dormitories would
vote not with the dorms as had been
previously proposed, but with their
Greek living units.
"Five per cent of the students on
the Lincoln campuses must sign the
petition, and 1 am not confident we
will get that many," Cochrane said.
He speculated that about 75 0
signatures could be obtained.
The Workers Council will be ex
panded to Include sophomores as wll
as freshmeh, by a majority of 929
to 46.
Section 3, providing for election of
the president and the vice-presidents
of the Judicial and the Program Areas
shall bo noted on separate ballots,
passed by the margin of 924 to 43.
Provisions for replacement of ex
ecutive officers passed, 916 to 43.
Restructuring of the Judicial branch,
calling for all Court of Appeals
members to be members of Congress,
and providing for replacement by anv
qualified AWS member as selected
by Cabinet, passed, by votei of 924
to 40 and 915 to 52 respectively.
Article VI, dealing with election to
Congress, specifies that no sorority
may sponsor more than two girls to
run for AWS Congress. The measure
passed by 877 to 79.
Section 4. entailing provisions fr
replacement of Congres swomen, pass
ed by the margin of 823 to 40,
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