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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1969
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
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Draft quotas cut;
Nixon urges reform
President Richard M. Nixon Friday
cut back projected draft calls for the
remainder of this year and in a
special Washington press conference
promised to institute changes in the
Selective Service System if Congress
fails to enact draft reforms.
Nixon said proposed calls of 29,000
for October, 32,000 for November and
18,000 for December could be cut to
10,000 per month because of lessened
military requirements, due in part to
Vietnam troop withdrawals.
Nebraska's October quota was pro
portionately decreased from 277 to 95.
There is also the possibility of a cut
back in the January call of 35,000,
according to Secretary of Defense
Melvin R. Laird.
The President also proposed certain
Fee hike due
to rising health
costs and Union
Beginning with the fall semester,
University students will pay an- addi
tional $12 per semester in student
fees, which raises the total fee to
$51.40. The additional fees include $8
for Student Health facilities, $1.50 for
the Nebraska Union, and $2.50 as
bonded support for the Union.
The hike in fees in due primarily
to the increasing cost of operating
student health facilities, according to
Carl Yost, comptroller for the
University.
"Student Health has been operating
with a deficit for the last two years
and we reached the point where we
would either have to curtail the pro
gram or obtain more financing. Last
year, Student Health probably lost
over $100,000." Yost attributed the loss
to rising salaries and expensive new
medical equipment. He added that
health costs were rising more than
any other living costs.
University officials agreed that
since a raise in student fees was
necessary for health facilities, more
money could be obtained at the same
time tor other expenses.
The Nebraska Union received a
total increase of four dollars, chiefly
to cover proposed recreational and
expansion expenses. Yost said that
future plans for the Union include
"satellite" unions and expansion of
East Campus facilities.
One of the recreational areas which
will receive part of the higher fees
is the land by the railroad tracks
east of campus to be used for football
and intramurals.
Alternatives to increased student
fees were considered, according to
Yost. One proposol found a solution
in mandatory student insurance and
higher rates of coverage, which would
nearly equal the $12 hike.
Over 1,000 students replied to a
survey concerning student health. The
consensus of the survey was that most
students would prefer to see an in
crease in general fees rather than
to pay a physician for clinic visits.
University officials concluded that
an increase in student fees would be
the least painful and most fair way
of continuing to provide facilities.
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changes designed to reduce
registrants' uncertainty over possible
induction. Under the present system,
young men may face disruption of
college, career and marriage plans
at any time between the ages of 19
and 26.
The oldest are selected first, work
ing down to the youngest, with the
average draftee's age reaching from
24 before the Vietnamese conflict to
20 in recent calls, according to a
report by the National Conference on
the Draft.
Suggested reforms would attempt to
minimize the uncertainty and disrup
tion by calling 19-year-olds first.
Secretary Laird explained that this
system is intended to limit the draft
to those in the 19 year old age
group. The administration Is asking Con
gress to approve a number lottery,
in which each available registrant Is
given a number. Each man would
be inducted as his number was
selected at random.
Chairman of the House Armed
Services Committee Mendel L. Rivers
said that the President's plan will be
considered by November, but in
dicated that it probably will not gain
approval. In that case Nixon has said
he would adopt, by executive order,
an age-group or "birthday" lottery.
The oldest in the 19-year-old
classification would be taken as each
call came up. A youth who escaped
the draft at 19, the "prime age
group," would be placed at the bottom
of the 19-year-old list and be called
up only in a national emergency.
As under the present system,
graduates and registrants with ex
pired student deferments would be
placed back into the prime age
group.
Of those given student deferments,
57 per cent eventually serve, ac
cording to the American Veterans
Committee's report on the draft.
Opponents of the proposed plans
argue that a lottery system would
result in a decline of enlistments,
because of a greater certainty that
those not drafted at first would never
be called.
Senator Edward Kennedy, who in
1966 proposed the same draft reforms
now under consideration, denies this.
He points out that draftee's would
in most cases not have civilian
careers to return to, and therefore
the rate of reenlistment would rise.
The decision of those already in the
service to remain in the only trade
they would have thus far learned
could compensate for any decline in
enlistments, and this could be further
remedied by increasing pay for re
enlistment, he argues.
The draft and its reform have been
hotly protested and debated sine1?
conscription began in the United
States in 1863. A recent youth opinion
?U conducted by the United States
outh Council indicated that three
fourth's of those surveyed feel that
the Selective Service System needs
some type of reform.
Great inconsistancies among the
nation's 4,000 local boards and the
need for stronger national guidelines
were the most often cited problems.
Uncertainty attendant to the draft,
alternate service rather than im
prisonment of resistors and more
tolerance of conscientious objectors
were listed as major areas of con
cern. President Nixon appears to be tak
ing a first step toward such reforms.
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hands of Fullback Mike Green (34).
Completion in 1971
Engineering
By Bill Smitherman
Nebraskan Staff Writer
The ex-parking lot south of
Nebraska Hall is fast becoming a
building.
Work was begun this summer on
a new $5.1 million engineering com
plex, according to Lyle E. Young,
assistant dean of the college of
engineering and architecture. The
building is scheduled for completion
in the spring of 1971.
Young explained that the new com
plex will provide teaching and
research facilities for four
departments of the college the
engineering mechanics, electrical,
mechanical and civil engineering
departments.
These departments now occupy
outdated facilities, he said Sunday.
Some of the buildings are over 60-years-old
and were built at the time
engineering was taught as a skill,
Young continued.
He explained that engineering
teaching now concentrates on theory
rather than practical skills and that
the old buildings have become out
moded. With some 150,000 feet of floor
space, the new facility will triple ex
isting space, Young observed.
The new building will have a
number of features not now available
at the University. It will contain a
materials' testing lab and a number
of environmental control rooms. Also
Included in the building will be a
nuclear research facility.
A structural test bed in the materi
als' lab will make it possible to test
framed structures or large beams
under normal use conditions, Young
explained.
As an example, the materials to
be used in a bridge could be tested
under the same stress conditions they
will experience in the actual struc
ture. photo by Don Ldly
complex to cost $5.1 million
The environmental control rooms
will, for practical purposes, isolate
the objects in them from the outside
world. Young said that the environ
ment in the rooms can be completely
controlled to test the effect of en
vironment on materials and people.
The building will be constructed
with a nuclear testing lab and it is
possible that a small nuclear reactor
will be built in the future, he said.
Within the building the four depart
ments will share mixed facilities,,
Young continued.
"We hope that this will lead to in
Union hosts Dr. Spock;
guest speaker Thursday
This nation's best-known combina
tion baby doctor and proponent of
draft resistance will appear here
Thursday as the first speaker in a
series sponsored by the Nebraska
Union Talks and Topics Committee.
He is Dr. Benjamin Spock whose
famous career began in 1946 when
his first book, "The Common Sense
Book of Baby and Child Care," was
published. It has become one of
America's best sellers with over 21
million copies sold.
Spock will speak in the Centennial
Room at the Union at 3:30 p.m.,
Thursday.
In recent years, Spock has devoted
much of his time to the cuuse of
peace in the world a continuation
of the humaiiitariunisin that has
marked his entire career.
Despite his concern for peace. Spock
does not label himself as a pacifist.
"I thought we ought to get into the
war against Hitler long before we ac
tually did. I agreed that in 1950 the
United States should go to the aid
of Smith Korea when it was invaded
by North Korea. I was and still
am for concerted action to repel
aggression. But I do not think
America is repelling aggression in
Vietnam,", he says.
In 1967 Spock retired from his pro
fessorship at Western Reserve
Medical University in Cleveland to
devote more time to the peace move
ment. He wrote the book, "Dr. Spock
on Vietnam." That same year he
helped word and sign a statement,
"A Call to Resist illegitimate
Authority," which declared that young
men who resisted induction were
serving their country with high
patriotism.
Because of his association with drat
resistance, Spock and four other pro
minent persons were indicted in
Junuury, 1968, on a charge of con
spiring to counsel, uld and abet viola
tions of the Selective Serv ice Act.
The others were William Sloane
Coffin Jr., chaplain at Yale; Mitchell
Goodman, a writer; Michael Kerbcr,
a graduate student; Marcus Raskin,
a member of President Kennedy's
White House staff and now co-director
of the Institute for Policy Studies in
Washington.
The four-week-long trial in May and
June 1968 has been written in the
book "The Trial of Dr. Spock" by
Jessica Mitford, who achieved fame
through her book attacking the high
cost of funerals, "The American Way
of Death."
In July of this year the U.S. Court
of Ap(eals freed Spock.
Spock will be the first of five
speakers sponsored by the Talks and
Topics Committee. The other will be
Chancellor search
lessens; secrecy
by John Dvorak
Nebraskan Staff Writers
After less than three months work,
the ten-man Chancellor search com
mittee has narrowed the list of pro
spective NU leaders to 45 in anticipa
tion of an October 1 deadline for
nominations.
"The search is proceeding surpris
ingly well," remarked John H .
Moseman, who is the committee's
student representative from the Lin
coln campuses. "We started with a
gigantic list of names, but w.e've now
narrowed the list down to' a fairly
small number."
The search committee is soliciting
names of prospective chancellors
from all members of the University
community, Moseman said. Students,
especially, are urged to offer sugges
tions. No more nominations will be ac
cepted after Oct. 1, Moseman con
tinued. After further study, the search
committee then hopes to present a
list of less than 10 people to the Board
of Regents, who will make the final
selection.
The University of Nebraska has
been without a permanent chancellor
since January of this year, when Dr.
Clifford M. Hardin became Secretary
of Agriculture in President Richard
terdisciplinary cooperation," he said.
"We feel that this Is a good thing."
The building will combine teaching
and research labs, Young added.
There will be no classrooms included.
"A classroom and office building
has been planned but not yet funded,"
he continued. It will be some years
before the structure is built.
In the meantime, engineering
classes are to be held in Nebraska
Hall. Young explained that this will
be convenient because most of the
collection of engineering books is to
be moved to the undergraduate
library now under construction there.
Dr. Benjamin Spock
Arthur C. Clarke on November 6; Bill
Russell on December 4; Roy Imnis
on February 12 and Dr. James
Kavanaugh on March 12.
Author of the book, "2001: A Space
Odyssey," Arthur C. Clarke was
awarded the Franklin Institute's Gold
Modal in 1963 for having originated
the communication satellite in a
technical paper published in 1954.
Recently he collaborated with "Life"
magazine and CBS television network
In covering the nation's current ac
complishments in space.
The revolution wrought by Rill
Russell in the National Basketball
Association Is still being felt by every
shooter In the game of basketbull.
Everytlme a player leups to block
a shot rather than simply to hurry
his opponent, you can bluine Bill
Russell because he invented the
maneuver.
Now retired as a player and coach
of the Boston Celtics, Russell operates
a Boston restaurant and owns a rub
ber plantation in Liberia.
Roy Innls has risen fiom the streets
of Harlem to become national director
of CORK (Council on Racial Equali
ty). It can be said that Innis is chiefly
responsible for the shift from the in
tegrationlst goals of COKE to a
movement for control of the institu
tions In areas where blacks
predominate.
"A Modern Priest Looks at His
Outdated Church" has catapulted Dr.
James Kavanaugh into national pro
minence as America's best known
former priest. Currently he is director
of a program which seeks to develop
small intimate groups in search of
vaiue, meaning and personal growth.
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M. Nixon's new cabinet. Dr. Merk
Hobson, an NU faculty member and
administrator since 1950, has been
acting-chancellor .
Hardin, who had been given a one
year leave of absence, resigned as
Chancellor May 31. The Board of
Regents approved members of the
search committee at a June 23
meeting.
In addition to Dr. Cecil Wittson,
president of the University Medical
Center at Omaha who chairs the
group, the search committee is com
posed of one student and two faculty
members from each of NU's three
campuses.
Besides Moseman, the Lincoln
campuses are represented by Dr. Paul
A. Olson, professor of English and
Dr. Everett E. Peterson, professor of
agricultural economics.
Representing the University o f
Nebraska Medical Center are Dr.
Harry W. McFadden Jr., professor
of microbiology; Dr. John R. Jones,
professor of surgery; and Steven
Lagerberg, student.
Representing the University o f
Nebraska at Omaha are John V.
Blackwell, chairman of the art
department; A. Stanley Trickett,
chairman of history; and Steve Wild,
student.
"We spent our first few meetings
discussing the qualifications for the
new chancellor," Moseman began.
He must be persuasive and able
to deal with the Nebraska
Unicameral. He must deal with ques
tions of academic freedom. He will
have to handle tension well.
There is a black issue developing
now and in the years to come, so
the new chancellor must deal with
this, Moseman said. He must not be
a racist; he will have to deal with
black problems.
The new chancellor must be
amiable to students, faculty and ad
ministrators, Moseman continued, and
he must not be older than 55.
The last qualification is one of the
few guidelines being rigidly followed,
commented Moseman, a first-year law
student. "We'd like to have this man
for as many years as possible. There
is no minimum age."
The new chancellor will not
necessarily be a long-time educator,
Moseman pointed out.
"We're not limiting ourselves to the
academia," he said. "It is doubtful
of course that a man who has never
come into contact with a University
could be selected. If the new man
had no knowledge of what a professor
does, for instance, he would be
severely handicapped."
Race, religion or political beliefs
will not enter into the selection pro
cess, Moseman stated. Nor will
geographical considerations be im
portant. "We on the committee just
generally agreed to these qualifica
tions," Moseman said. "We didn't
write them down." The Board of
Regents left the selection process up
to the committee.
In their charge to the group, the
Regents said simply that the com
mittee should "actively consider can
didates from both inside and outside
of the University" and to "submit
their suggestions to the Regents as
soon as possible."
Moseman would not predict when
the names would be submitted to the
Regents, or how soon the Regents
would select a chancellor after
receiving the committee's recom
mendations. "We're working as quickly as
possible," he said. "But we're not
hurrying to the point of being
haphazard. Naturally everybody is
anxious to have a " p e r m a n e n t
chancellor."
The committee meets on a semi,
regulur basis about once a week.
Nominations ure considered and
members of the group ure assigned
to research the various candidates.
Candidates ate not interviewed, and
in fact do not know they are under
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Friday is deadline for
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registration
Friday. September 26. is t h e
deadline for registration for the Oc
tober 10-12 "Live-in" on Omaha's
Near North Side.
"For the past two years 'Live-ins'
have proven helpful in understanding
some of the dynamics of the inner
city and of ghetto life." according
to Mel Leutchen of the Wesley Foun
dation. The registration fee of $16 covers
all costs of meals, lodging and
speaker fees and may be paid et tho
United Methodist Student Center, 640
N. 16th Street (432-0355).
Participants take sleeping bags and
sleep on cots In the Urban Studies
Center on North 25th Street in Omaha.
Cars providing rides will leave the
center at 4:30 p.m. cn Friday, October
10. Informal dress is appropriate. .
The group will return on Sunday
afternoon. Participants should take a
sleeping bag and trsonal items.
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