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-PAGE 4 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN FRIDAY APRIL 18, 1969 FlPdllllln OlU,AZMl tl&tZlllWI -on Regents in feasible " .'-VVtho is going to be the student that is going to represent the total student body?" asked Dr. Joseph Soshnik, president of the University Lincoln campuses, in response to a query of whether he would support a non-voting student on the Board of Regnets. ""Soshnik, speaking at a meeting of the1 "East Campus Circle K Club, termed the proposal complex and overdrawn. -A'The idea of student participation is . acceptable," Soshnik said, "but the Suggestion that a student should be a member of the Board of Regents and the connotation that it changes the opportunity of students to relate to and communicate with the Board is unrealistic." -"We have encouraged over a long period of time," he added, "student attendance of Regents meetings with the thought of giving them the flavor of what is going on." "IS DISCUSSING the students role in determining University policy, . SAshnik allowed that one of the real questions is whether students will ap ' pi'flxe of decisions arrived at by some one their own age who they may feel docs not represent them any better than someone who isn't their age. ,'.Student participation should be at the grass roots, Soshnik said, where "you work with faculty members and the people who are responsible for departmental affairs." "At Nebraska there has been a long tradition in which students were in volved in student affairs. The tradi tions of this University are of close relationships between faculty and students," he claimed. But as in any university as complex as ours, he added, there is a certain lack of uniformity among departments and colleges in the degree of student involvement and participation. There are many underlying elements that must be taken into ac count when considering questions of authority and responsbility in decision making, he said. "There is an important distinction that should be made between decision making and the sharing in the pro cess," Soshnik said. "There are certain legal obligations that can't be set aside by people who are elected or appointed to various positions in the educational institu tions," he said. "Those who think that changes in the academic community can be sudden or revolutionary are wrong. "We must have in any open academic community freedom of ex pression. This is why many of the organizatioaships which can be made to work in other enterprises such as business don't apply in the Universi ty," Soshnik continued. "BECAUSE THE FREEDOM of expression is made tantamount by some for a special license to say or do anything at anytime they please, we begin to approach the crux of the problem of the aademic community," he said. Phrases such as "Student Power," Soshnik said, are too often thought to be synonymous with student domina tion or tyranny. "When we are talking about power in the legitimate sense, we are talking about participation in an at mosphere where it is understood that not everybody has exactly the same views at the same time," he said. Soshnik said the students at the University can express their interests and bring about changes, uoticably in the areas of curriculum and hous ing. In curriculum, he said, there have been numerous additions of courses and changes in their structure. The development of the housing board is especially indicative of the amount of student involvement and interest in this area, he said. i I --I k ; fT" ;4r; 'Beyond the Laiv9 film presented April 18-19 The Nebraska Union Film Com. 'mittee and Grove Press will present "Beyond The, Law," a film by Norman Mailer, April 18 at 2:30 and 7:30 and April 19 at 7:30 in Sheldon Art Gallery. , , Advance tickets may be purchased at the Nebraska Union North Lobby for $1.50. Tickets will be $2.00 at the Dr. Joseph Soshnik, president of the University Lincoln campuses, is the first administrator to express an opinion on the feasi bility of a Student Regent in his talk with Circle K members. Wotto Treat . . . Worta Guy, It's Cornhusker Land and the nation's Top 'Pop' entertainer . . . You've seen him on leading TV shows . . . You've spun his records for years. C'mon down, see him for real! Fri., April 25 8:30 P.M. eddv and his all star show TSU vK- M W 4n s PRICES: $3.00 $4.00 $5.00 ORDER TICKETS IY MAIL TODAY! Send chick or monty or. V t. PfRSHINO AUDITORIUM, P. O. BOX 7C6, Llnceln. Indole stamp. If addrttied en velope for prompt return of tickots! YOU MAY PUnCHASI TICKITJI 11 Noon TIM 4 Dally, Pinhlna Tlckvl Off(ft, rondtll, Milltr and Paint, Down town, Oatoway and Trwmro City durlna Iter hourt. New pledge contract Continued from page 1 IFC advisor to accompany them on any inspection, Sorenson continued. According to Miller, the eight houses feel an advisor is necessary so that not just the few individuals of the executive committee can decide when there is a violation and revoke the contract. The new contract also stipulates that any violation of the contract re quires a two-thirds majority of the IFC to cause revocation. "THE SERIOUSNESS of revocation of the contract means that a house would virtually be denied a pledge class if it lost the contract," Polikov said. "That is why it should take two thirds of IFC to revoke a contract." He added that on a first violation even the executive committee prob ably wouldn't agree to revoking a contract. Polikov also emphasized the addi tion to the contract of the sentence which will prohibit all forms of personal servitude. "This is the most constructive point in the new contract," he said. "Why wasn't this point in the original con tract IFC passed?" MUCH OF the criticism of the standing contract from these houses Is that it is not serving to improve pledge training methods. "This contract has been signed by many houses not to improve their pledge training but to hurt houses who cannot comply with it on one or two minor points,' according to Russell. "With the Sigma Chi it is a great deal of principle because we don't want to sign the contract unless we can live up to it," he added. "The existing contract is being used as a crowbar, not a guideline for pledge education." Polikov feels that the new contract better represents the attitudes of the Greek system because it has been drawn up by members of several houses instead of a few individuals on the executive committee. "THE CONTENT of this contract its merely a reaffirmation of the policy each house agrees to follow by becoming a member of IFC." Terry Grasmick, treasurer of IFC and a member of Theta Xi, said. There are some practices outlawed in the contract which will continue even if all the houses sign the con tract. Grasmick added. "The houses who won't sign the contract are concerned about major points such as line-ups," he said. "These are major points which have to go." ACCORDING TO Polikov, the dispute over the contract is a result of IFC accepting the contract now in effect before It was thoroughly worked out and discussed. "The contract now standing will be more destructive than constructive 'f there is a sharp division between houses," Miller added. If the IFC does not implement the new contract that will be proposed by the eight houses, those houses will be forced either to sign or not sign the existing contract. They will not band together and display the contract they have drawn up in rush week. "It would either be the new contract or none at all for Sigma Chi, Russell said. 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