Integrated cathouse; segregated church
by JAN PARKS
Nebraskan Staff Writtr
More integration exists in a house of
ill repute than in a house of the Lord,
Charlie Washington told University
students this weekend in an Omaha
near north side live-in.
Washington, editor of the Omaha
Star (a black newspaper), called the
church the "most guilty institution."
Sunday schools are "perhaps the most
segregated school system, and 11 a.m.
on Sunday morning is the most
segregated hour of the week," he said.
"White people only want to give lip
service to the opportunities of blacks,"
he said. Christian churches have given
more money to Biafra than to black
causes in the United States," Washing,
ton continued.
Now even the most affluent blacks
are angry, Washington said. Pointing
out the urgency of the situation,
Washington asked one live-in partici
pant when she wanted the war in
Vietnam to end.
"Now," the coed meekly replied.
"That's exactly the way blacks feel
about gaining the rights of a first-class
citizen," Washington said. "We're not
going to take it any longer. I want
something concrete and tangible in my
lifetime, and I don't care what I have
to do to get it. If it scares you, so be
it."
Washington was one of six speakers
who formally addressed a group of
eight students and Rev. Mel Luet
chens, associate minister-director of
the campus Methodist chapel.
Over 3,000 people have attended live
ins at the Urban Studies Center at 25th
and Evans in the past two years, ac
cording to Pat Bracken, a Dana
College junior and weekend
coordinator of the center.
The center, financed by the United
Methodist Metropolitan Ministries, "is
a place for black and white con
frontation," Bracken explained.
The urban center is located in the
heart of Omaha's ghetto. If the black
community didn't think something
worthwhile was being done, they
wouldn't allow the urban center to
continue, Bracken explained.
"The reason we don't spend time in
the homes and among the people is
that we would be only looking at the
symptoms. We're trying to get you to
look at the cause the white com
munity," Bracken said.
Larry Miller, a staff sergeant at
Offutt Air Force Base who married
interracially, and his son, Erick,
three, conversed with the group.
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ally nebraskan
Monday, February 9, 1970 Lincoln, Nebraska
Vol. 93, No. 51
No hours 'feels good'
by CAROL ANDERSON
Nebraskan Stiff Writtr
All women's dorms plan to
officially implement the no
hours policy Monday, Feb. 9. All
except Pound and Women's
Residence have found night
watchmen.
East Campus women's halls
and sororities will use an ex
panded key system because the
reduced size of housing units
would make the night watchman
system a financial burden to the
residents who must pay the
watchmen's salaries.
Formation of the no hours
policy began earlier this fall
when AWS asked the Council on
Student Life (CSL) to approve
their proposal to expand the
Sandoz Hall no hours experi
ment to second semester
freshmen and to other women's
dorms. This first proposal would
have excluded first semester
freshmen and retained parental
permission for all participants.
CSL passed the AWS resolu
tion, but some members ob
jected to the exclusion of first
semester freshmen and parental
permission. AWS was asked to
reconsider their proposal.
Dec. 9 AWS presented CSL
with a revised resolution call
ing for no hours for all women
and no permission. CSL passed
it unanimously Jan. 6.
Chairman John Robinson
wrote President Joseph Soshnik
explaining the system and
"drew his attention to the fact
that the Regents have the right
to review it."
Soshnik read Robinson's letter
to the Regents and according to
Robinson, the Regents respond
ed "that they were pleased to be
informed."
Ely Meyerson, director of
housing, whose office is in
charge of implementing the
policy said "this kind of pro
gram gives students the op
portunity to behave in an adult
way."
Women's hours have been
liberalizing for two or three
years before the Sandoz no
hours experiment last year.
"This was a sound way to
evolve student responsibility,"
Meyerson said. "It is one reason
Schramm Hall votes
4ycs' for coed living
by BILL SMITIIEKMAN
Nebraskan SUM Writer
Over 85re of the residents of
Schramm Hall voted in favor of
a proposal to make their
dormitory a coeducational
residence hall Thursday.
The proposal provides for
conversion of Schramm Hall
into a bi-sexual dormitory,
much like Centennial College or
Burr Hall. If approved by the
Housing Policy Committee and
Council on Student Life, the
plan would go into effect next
September.
Mike Eyster, chairman of the
Schramm Hall government
committee which devised the
proposal, explained to the Daily
Nebraskan why It is necessary.
Eyster said that he noted a
great difference in the at
mosphere surrounding male
female relationships after
moving to Schramm from
Selleck Quadrangle. It seemed
to him that much of this dif
ference was caused because
men and women had no op
portunity to socialize in
formally, he said.
"Each dorm in this complex
(Harper-Scfiramm-Smlth) has
a beautiful lounge of its own,"
Eyster added. "Because of this
there is no reason for men to
use the women's dorm lounge
or vice-versa."
He explained that as a con
sequence male-female rela
tionships are harder to form
where dorms are strictly sex
ually segregated.
In a year-long program of
research Eyster interviewed
administrators and students of
socially integrated dormitories
at Kansas University and
Wayne State College.
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the administration is so com
fortable with it. It hasn't been
reckless."
Watchmen will be on duty
Mon.-Thurs. with their salaries
paid by hall residents. The
charge per girl depends on the
size of her living unit. The cost
varies from $2.50 for each San
doz girl to $4 at Selleck and
Smith.
Pound and WRII will use one
entrance and share a night
watchman which will cost their
girls $3 each. Pound Hall
residence director Susan
Crockett said a proposal to open
the lounges in the Pound-Cather-WRH
common's building 24
hours a day is in early planning
stages.
Smith Hall implemented the
system a week ago. One Smith
freshman commented, "I like It.
I haven't used it yet and I dont
know of anyone who has, but it
just feels better."
Open hours for women is
touchy business at colleges
throughout the country. From
progress to stagnation to ex
treme conservatism each
campus presents a diversity of
programs.
In the East the University of
Maryland is a prime example
of what has happened on many
campuses.
There are no longer hours for
women because of the pressure
applied by AWS and women
students on the campus.
On the other hand at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin the Board
of Regents abolished hours for
all women In 19f8 but recently
reversed their decision and
reinstated women's hours for
freshmen.
One member of the Board of
Regents said the change was
due to the "immaturity" and
the "need for guidance" of
women.
The University of Southern
Florida at Tampa uses
"courtesy cards" which after
being placed in a lobby rack
allow women students to come
and go as they please. The
cards contain the name of a
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