Roxanne Arvin,
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1969
Control of drag addiction
will directly reduce
by Ron Whitten
Nebraskan Staff Writer
More than half of America's crimes
against property are committed by
youth, the United States Attorney
General said Friday night in Omaha.
John Mitchell, addressing a $100-per-plate
dinner in honor of Nebraska
Sen. Roman Hruska, said, "Half of
those now being arrested for drug
abuse are under 21 years of age."
The attorney general talked of the
Nixon Administration's proposals to
combat crime. Mitchell told an
estimated crowd of 1200 persons at
Omaha's Civic Auditorium that the
new anticrime programs were largely
the result of the guest of honor, Sen.
Hruska.
"Our most ambitious program to
combat local street crime," Mitchell
said, "is the Law Enforcement
Assistance Administration."
LEAA battles
The LEAA, part of the Department
of Justice, has been designed to aid
state and local -gwrmnwUis- in-im-provements
to juvenile programs,
criminal justice systems, and police
agencies, Mitchell explained.
"The battle against narcotics is an
Integral part of the administration's
antistreet crime program," he added.
"A reduction in addicts will result
directly in the reduction of crime."
One proposal now in Congress, the
Controlled Dangerous Substances Act
of 1969, would re-evaluate and
reorganize existing drug laws Mitchell
said.
Mitchell said the proposal would
Help Line unique service;
assists with all problems
A unique telephone service designed
to assist students who need any type
of Information or help will open.
Wednesday under direction of the
University of Nebraska.
"Many times there are questions
and problems, or information that
students need but are reluctant to ask
someone about," Dr. Russell II.
Brown, dean of student development,
said Sunday. "There are times when
students do not know who to ask or
where to go."
Help Line will hopefully solve the
problem. Students, or staff and faculty
as well, need only dial 472-3311 or
472-3312 during hours of operation.
Persons calling the Help Line
number will either get an immediate
answer to their question, wait while
an answer is found or be given the
name of a specific person to contact.
As far as student affairs officials
know, no university In the United
States provides a similar service.
"We. have a lot of services available
Student court prohibits
Peters suit against ASUN
Student Court has vd to prohibit
Stan Peters, unsuccessful ASUN can
didate, from filing suit against former
ASUN Electoral Commissioner John
McCoIlister and ASUN President BUI
Chaloupka concerning last sprlng's
ASUN electioas.
Peters charges that he was not
notified of a 30-day time limit for
contesting ASUN elections last spring.
He filed after the time limit.
Peters plans to appeal the decision
to the Council on Student Life (CSL).
CSL must first agree to hear the ap
peal. If the council does hear the case,
Peters will ask CSL to direct the Stu
dtiti Court to hear Peters' charges
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"expand federal administrative
authority to control narcotics" and
also expand the authority of search
and seizure.
The Attorney General commented
that the new programs "may appear
a bit gray," but that introduction and
presentation of the new programs has
been purposely low key.
Johnson administration
"The Johnson administration at
tempted to solve these problems
through the illusion of words,"
Mitchell continued, "and through the
projection of succeeding images of
impossible dreams which w ere
replaced by more impossible dreams
when previous commitments could not
be met."
This method worked for a while,
Mitchell said, because "it is healthy
every so often, to have a burst of
color and imagination. But imagina
tion is no replacement for well-conceived
and well-funded programs."
Mitchell added that, it has been
Nixon's policy to avoid too much color
and present a low profile. "We do
not want to offer more hope than
we can realistically deliver," he ex
plained. The man whom many Washington
observers consider the most influent
ial cabinet member added that the
Nixon administration was not,
however, opposed to criminal reform
proposals.
"While the Justice Department can
sympathize with physical conditions
and emotional problems which may
cause persons to commit crimes, we
at the University, " Brown com
mented. "We have to inform people
of them."
Students just don't want to come
Into an office or talk with an ad
ministrator, he added. On other oc
casions, students don't wish to identify
themselves by coining into an office,
"We feel this service will make it
easier as well U3 more convenient
for students to test out possibilities
and find answers to their questions,"
Brown said.
The Help Line service will be
available Monday-Thursday 8 a.m. to
11 p.m.; Friday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.;
Saturday 7 to 11 p.m.; and Sunday
to 11 a.m. Manning the Help Line
will be either Cheryl Daigger, a senior
n psychology, Jerry Gaies or Jerry
3avLs, graduate students in counsel
ing. It is assumed that many questions
will be of a procedural nature. The
three students, therefore, have done
some boning up. But they cannot be
against McCoIlister and Chaloupka
concerning last spring's ASUN elec
tions. "We're going to stress the need to
find out what happened In last
spring's elections," said Terry Schaaf,
counsel for Peters. "The 30 day
technicality lis not the central issue.
The central issue Is What happened
to those ballots."
Schaaf said the ballots were
tampered with and miscounted.
Schaaf also charged that there was
illegal campaigning by Chaloupka on
election day of last year.
The Council on Student Life will
hear the arguments on Nov. 11 as
to whu'Jier it will hear the appeal.
Wesleyan beauty
A Nebraska Wesleyan coed was ch
osen from 12 contestants Saturday
night to reign as Miss Black Nebraska
Coed.
Roxanne Arvin and runner up were
named at a dance following the
pageant in the Union ballroom. The
contest was sponsored by the NU
Afro-American Collegiate Society.
First runner-up was University of
Nebraska cheerleader Annette
Hudson, a sophomore from Lincoln.
JoAnn Donaldson, an NU freshman
from Omaha, was second runnerup;
and Karen Glover, also a Nebraska
Wesleyan sophomore, from Omaha,
was third runner-up.
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cannot sympathize with those who
only seek to excuse criminals,"
Mitchell said.
Research projects
"Of course," he added, ''we
recognize the need for and strongly
support research and development
projects which may help us solve
crime tomorrow."
"But tomorrow is too late for the
housewife who is mugged, or the
small store owner who is killed by
a narcotics addict," he said.
To immediately combat crime,
Mitchell explained, the LEAA pro
gram will emphasize funding police
efforts to immediately fight crime.
taw enforcement officers "felt that
at best they were ignored by the prior
administration," Mitchell said. "Now
they know they have friends and allies
working in the federal government."
Mitchell said he hoped that
Congress would appropriate the re
quested $296 million for providing
funds to law enforcement agencies.
The Attorney General said additional
funds have also been asked for the
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous
Drugs, again to provide adequate law
enforcement.
Rehabilitate addict
Mitchell noted that the controversial
Mexican Operation Intercept border
check has "dried up markets in some
areas and driven the price of
narcotics to the sky in other areas."
Additional money would be used to
expand other international operations,
he said.
"Our goal is not the apprehension,
expected to answer all questions,
Brown said.
The three students will attempt to
locate the answers to Help Line ques.
tioiis, if they cannot be immediately
answered.
"In other cases," Brown said, "we
will tell the caller exactly who to
see In the faculty or on the University
staff. We'll then tell the staff member
that the caller is coming."
Brown speculated that the service
will help students who are experienc
ing emotional difficulties. The three
Help Line students are qualified to
help with some personal problems.
They will also have a list of faculty
members available to help with
personal problems.
The Help Line was Brown's idea,
who admitted he Is intrigued by the
telephone Help Line idea.
Brown is hopeful the service, which
operates out of a tiny office In the
administration building's main floor,
will be utilized often.
Mobilization group
to meet Monday
A me' iL f for uU people who are
interested in going to Washington D.C.
on November 15th for the National
Moratorium will be held Monday at
9 p.m.. in UMHE.
Information will be available on
transportation, lodging and the activi
ties that will be taking place in Wash
ington. All interested persons are encour
aged to attend. Mobilization committee
is attempting to organize a contin
gency from Nebraska to carry the
names of the Nebraska war dead in
the planned March of Death. Funds
will be available to help defray some
of the expense of the trip.
Plans for the observation of the
November Moratorium at the Univer
sity of Nebraska will also be discussed.
Walt Strong, the University's Black
Coordinator, opened the pageant "to
honor the Black coed in all her splen
dor." The contestants were judged on
original Afro-designs which they
modeled, talent presentations, poise
and awareness as well as beauty.
Miss Arvin modeled a long, flowing
dress with matching turban in a rose
colored African print. She gave a
soulful rendition of Lou Rawls' "Dead
End Street" in the talent competition.
Asked about the Black woman's role
in the Black revolution, Miss Arvin
said, "It is to stand by the Black
man and make him feel that he's
more than the man he already is;
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conviction and imprisonment of a
narcotics addict." Mitchell continued.
"This type of individual should be
the object of research and rehabilita
tion, preferably at the state level.
"Our goal is the apprehension and
prosecution of those who make their
living by dealing in these substances."
The Nixon Administration has also
declared war on organized crime,
which Mitchell noted has major deal
ings in drug traffic.
Bills presently under consideration
directed specifically at organized
crime are an amendment to the Wag
ering Tax Act, a law designed to make
it a federal crime to corrupt local
police and public officials, and a
general witness immunity law to pro
tect potential witnesses, said Mitchell.
Funds increase
The attorney General added that a
$25 million increase in funds has been
requested to promote these efforts.
Mitchell said that a major problem
to all these administrative prospusuls,
"the disease of cynicism which
seems to be so alarmingly prevalent
in our nation today a cynicism
that duly elected government,
particularly tle federal government,
has lost Its relevance to the aspira
tions of our citizens,"
Carriers of this "disease," Mitchell
said, include young people, who are
rejecting traditional political pro
cesses, middle class working men,
who are rebelling against inflation,
and under-priviledged minorites, who
distrust the representation govern
ment is providing them.
Mitchell said, the commitment of
the Administration and the
Republican Party is to ''bring the na
tion back on an even keel; to exert
responsible control and leadership
over racial, economic and political
divisions and to re-establish optimism
in the future."
. Optimistic age
"I think that the nation should be
hopeful today. I think we can enter
an age of optimism," Mitchell told
the audience.
Mitchell said he was confident that
"as this administration's anticrime
program moves , forward through
Congress and into operation, the mood
of the nation will change from
cynicism to optimism."
Nixon's administration, said
Mitchell, will "restore civil tranquility
to the streets of this nation."
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performers freeze for the finale of "How the Grinch Stole the
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and to use my education to help my
children."
She is a sociology-psychology major
at NWU. She is the daughter of Mrs.
Carol Arvin of Omaha.
Other NU contestants included:
freshmen, Marilyn Ashby, Cynthia
Baltimore, Jody Carr and Christine
Sanders; sopohomores Virginia Hogan
and Ingrid Lentz; UNO contestants,
juniors, Trese Hudgins and Maria
Wood.
Judges were Charles B. Washington,
news editor of the Omaha Star; Lin
coln housewife Lela Shanks; Barbara
Taylor, public relations associate for
Western Electric Co. ; Raymond
Taylor, public relations associate for
KK first place Traveler's Act winners Jim Weaner arrd Bryon
Benson.
Kosmet Klub stages coed show
"How the Grinch Stole the Fountain
of Youth" stole the show Saturday
night at Kosmet Klub's first coed
performance in many years. The
winning skit was performed by Phi
Gamma Delta fraternity and Delta
Delta Delta sorority.
Second place was awarded to Sigma
Alpha Epsilon fraternity and Gamma
Phi Beta sorority, while the third
place winners were Theta X i
fraternity and Delta Gamma sororitv.
Beta Theta Pi fraternity and Chi
Omega sorority received the best
music award and the Grinch, Steve
Taylor, was named best actor of the
KK performance. A singing duo,
comprised of Jim Weaner and Bryon
Benson won the traveler's act com
petition. I'am Rash was crowned Nebraska
Sweetheart and Guy Ingles received
the Prince Kosmet title.
Kosmet Klub memorial scholarships
were presented to three University
juniors at the performance.
The Steven Carillon Cass scholarship
was presented to Arthur Denney from
the College of Engineering. Dan
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Careers; James Grigsby, supervisor
of the Urban Affairs department of
the Wesley House in Omaha; Ozzie
A. Wilson of the State Human Rela
tions Commission and Jack Slegman,
assistant professor of sociology at NU.
Model UN entries
now being processed
Applications for the 1969 University
of Nebraska Model United Nations,
to be held December 12 and 13, are now
being accepted. All intersted students
may pick up an application in the
Nebraska Union Program Office.
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Schmidt, a music major, received the
Jack Layson scholarship and Chris
Bullant, a drama student, received
the Greg Andrews scholarship.
Safe opened
Approximately $4.1100 in cash and
checks was taken sometime Saturday
from a locked safe in the Cornhusker
office, according to year book editor
Bob Thacker.
A yearbook stuff member checked
the safe before leaving for the football
game Saturday afternoon, according
to Thacker. Another slaff member
found the open sale following the
game.
Campus Police De'ective Paul
Spahn is investigating the incident,
but he was unavailable for comment
Sunday.
Thacker emphasized that no book
receipts were stolen, and any student
who purchased a 1970 yearbook this
fall by check or casli can obtain it
in the spring upon presentation of the
receipt.
performance Saturday. Above,
Fountain of Youth."
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