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? WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1969 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN PAGE 3 Afro -American studies major now part of Yale curriculum Read Nebraska Want Ads 1 1 Wanted: A Bullwhip Instructor Bill Szymanski will do a bull whip dance as Atahuallpa, Inca king and Sun God, in "The Royal Hunt of the Sun," a play to be presented on Howell stage begin ning April 30. Szymanski wants anyone who can teach him to use the whip to call the drama department. NU student lobbying termed frustrating Student lobbying In the Unicameral has been moderately successful, ac cording to Diane E. T h e i s e n , chairman of the ASUN's Legislative Liaison Committee. "We're students," Miss Theisen said. "We can't be full time lobbyists. We just can't put in the time." Lobbying is a full-time job, she continued. Often the task trying to get acquainted with the senators and to present a point of view seems overwhelming and frustrating. The committee would like to express student viewpoints on legislative bills such as open housing, she said. But mostly, lobbying has been con centrated on bills of particular in terest to students. LOHHYIXG was done on the defeated marijuana bill, the bill lowering the contractual age in Nebraska and several measures relating to higher education. n past years, student lobbying has been limited to the University budget, but Miss Theisen said that the com mittee has tried to branch out more this year. "The question is often asked, 'do we want student lobbyists at all?' " she said. "Personally I think we should." DKSI'ITK the problems, Miss Theisen feels a great deal has been accomplished. "Some senators have been very Impressed," she said. "Some senators have said they like hearing student views." The state senators often ask what the student opinion is around the campus. In past years, the student lobbyists had n o comprehensive figures, she explained. The committee, in reality, has much broader duties than just lobbying, Miss Theisen explained. Some of these duties do involve the Legislature. "Student Public Relations" could be the term for it. she said. The committee has contacted senators and invited them to come to the campus for a general tour or for speaking engagements. The com mittee is trying to familiarize senators wi!h the University. So far, about half of the Unicameral members have replied to Invitations. Miss Theisen said. Some senators have already visited the University, but at the request of other organize lions. Most of the senators' visits will M HI For your intcrtainment delight Diamond Jim proudly prsnt . . THE It LOC Appearing Wed.-Sat. evenings BEEF AND BOURBON 8-11 p.in Free Parking Kraft or Car Park sMth rd M ..... m..rt-ninii-i-rtittiiimi iimTi'rfcrtMiTit"Tr" V 1 have to be concentrated after spring vacation. IN CONJUNCTION with their public relation's tasks, the committee is planning a series of monthly half hour television programs on station KUON TV. These programs, Miss Theisen said, would help illustrate student life all over the campus. 16th & P St. Just South cf Campus ROOM s9 477-1900 T - ii-Yt"---"-"- New Haven, Conn. (IP.) For the first time, a new curriculum at Yale has been developed not by the faculty alone but jointly with students. The Yale faculty voted recently to establish a new program in Afro American Studdes. Effective next September Yale students will be able to major in this field during their four undergraduate years. The planning committee consisted of four professors and four students the latter all members of the Black Student Alliance at Yale. Although many colleges, Including Yale, have been offering individual courses in Afro-American studies, the new Yale program is the first of a major university that makes this subject a field of study leading to the B.A. degree. The committee anticipated the ob jections of some scholars that Afro American courses are being proposed for political and not intellectual reas ons. Robert A. Dahl, Sterling pro fessor of political science who was committee chairman, emphasized that the strongly stated desire for the pro gram among some Yale students "should hardly be considered a disadvantage, much less a dis qualification. HOWEVER, HE SAID, "the only valid justification of the proposed pro gram, and the only one advanced by those of us who propose this major, is that it fulfills legitimate educatonal needs at Yale and meets the standards we expect n all our majors." The. program, he pointed out, is designed to meet the needs of white students as well as black. "It is hard to say which is the most appalling," he said, "the ignorance of whites about black people or the ignorance of Afrlo-Americans about their own ex perience." Charles H. Taylor, provost of Yale, emphasized that "the Black students' recommendation of a major in Afrlo American studies has been especially persuasive on two counts: "First, they have insisted from the beginning that it is educationally iff war, ignorance poverty and disease don't bother you . . don't bother us. Peace Corps Nebraska Union Building March 31 - April 4 or Ron Eagtln 472-2484 ICE CUBES 10 lb. 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