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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1970.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
VOL. 93, NO. 57
Resolution introduced
ASUN seeks faculty merger
by GARY SEACREST
Nebraska!! Staff Writtr
A resolution requesting
ASUN to consider the creation
Council seeks
New
of a student-faculty senate was
introduced in the ASUN Senate
Wednesday.
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Finding new ways to learn is the primary responsibility
of the University Teaching Council. The council was formed
last spring at the. instigation of C. Peter Magrath, new Dean
of Faculties.
"The Teaching Council was established to improve instruction
at the university wherever possible by whatever means possible,"
Magrath said. "Its function is not to avoid academic controversy,
but to promote discussion."
SINCE THE COUNCIL became operative last spring it has
engaged in a number of projects designed to improve teaching.
These include the establishment of eight Teaching Council
summer fellowships, a student-faculty conference on improving
instruction, and financial support for small projects proposed
by the faculty.
"During the fellowship period the instructor works to develop
new courses or improve his teaching methods."
MAGRATH EXPLAINED that the fellowship recipient is
required to present an informal seminar on his work and
what he has learned from it in the fall. These seminars are.
open to anyone interested in them, he said.
Magrath said the Council is "very interested in faculty
evaluation." The debate surrounding recent ASUN faculty
evaluation has show the academic community is interested
in evaluation matters, he added.
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The proposed "University
Senate" would be composed of
not less than 70 per cent
graduate and undergraduate
students.
First Vice President Diane
Theisen said that many
senators had "expressed a
desire to start work and in
vestigate alternatives to the
present structure of ASUN."
She said that Sen. Phil Medcalf
will head a committee to in
vestigate the possible re-structuring
of ASUN.
Also introduced in the
meeting, held at the East
Campus, was a resolution re
questing the Board of Regents
to clarify the powers of the
various student legislative
groups. Since the creation of
the Council of Student Life
there has been some confusion
concerning the powers of
various student organiza
tions. The ASUN Senate Wednesday
passed a resolution pledging
ASUN support for efforts to
repeal the current conscription
laws in the United States.
However, the Senate defeated
a resolution calling for ASUN
support of the national Vietnam
Moratorium Committee's "We
Won't Go" campaign. The
campaign is intended to reveal
the widespread opposition to
the draft.
The ASUN also Wednesday
defeated, then reconsidered
and passed an organic act ap
propriating $200 to support
Engineering Week. The theme
of the 1970 E-Week is en
vironmental control.
After the appropriations act
was first defeated many
senators said they voted
against the act because it did
not benefit all the University
students.
However, Sen. Bev
Goodenberger attacked the
Senate for defeating the act
and said "We gave the Afro
American Society $800 and I
don't see how spending that
money affects me. You are
never going to find an issue
that is going to benefit every
student on campus."
After more discussion on the
E-Week act, the Senate decided
to reconsider the bill. The bill
was passed after its sponsor
Fritz Olenberger introduced an
amendment requiring that the
money would only be used for
activities of E-Week - directly
related to environmental con
trol. Also introduced in Wednes
day's meeting was a resolution
instructing the Council on Stu
dent Life to evaluate the right
of the Housing Office to tell
students to leave their off
campus residence on the
grounds of racial discrimina
tion by the landlord.
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Gen. Hester Peaee in our time?
A heavily decorated veteran of three
world wars, Wednesday condemned
American foreign policy as a "program
of world domination" and as a "global
grab for power."
"If we continue with our present
military program, we'll have other Viet
nams," said Brig. Gen. (ret.) Hugh B.
Hester in the Nebraska Union Ballroom.
"IT'S TOO LATE for world domination
by any nation or groups of nations. No nation
has been capable of world domination for
any extended period of time since ancient
times,", he said. To try it in a time of
spaceships is absurd and maximally
dangerous, he added.
Hester has written President Nixon 16
letters since his nomination urging that
the United States pull out of Vietnam.
All 16 letters said the war is "illegal,
immoral and genocidal."
Hester told 250 persons he voted
for Nixon because he thought Nixon had
a program for getting the U.S. out of
Vietnam.
"I thought he had the wisdom to see
the mistakes that former President Johnson
made," the 74-year-old Hester said.
"Instead, he turned to the same thing
Johnson was doing with minor modifica
tions to suit his political needs."
"THE BOMBING is greater today than
it ever was In Johnson's time. "This is
a thing the American people don't realize."
Before retiring in 1951, Hester served
In World Wars I and II and Korea. He
won the Silver Star, the French Croix de
Guerre and the Distinguished Service
Medal.
Although calling former President
Elsenhower a "man of peace", Hesfer
blamed him for perpetuating the problem
in Vietnam. Eisenhower broke a U.S.
pledge not to interfere with Vietnamese
elections in 1956 as proposed by the 1954
Geneva Conference. Eisenhower prevented
.the election because he had become con
vinced that Communist leader Ho Chi Minh
would be the overwhelming choice of the
Vietnamese peopte, Hester said.
"HO CHI MINI! was no more an ag
gressor in Vietnam than was Abraham
Lincoln when he tried to bring the South
back to the fold in the Civil War," he
said.
"People don't commit aggression
against themselves," he said. "The only
aggressor in Vietnam today is the United
States."
Hester called for a unilateral
withdrawal of U.S. troops, the formation
of an international conference to establish
a stable peace in Southeast Asia, and
negotiations between the U.S. and the
various groups in Vietnam on how to repair
the damaged country.
At a press conference Hester offered
opinions on several world problems:
-IF RED CHINA is asked to aid the
North Vietnamese with fighting men, she
will do so. "If Red China enters the war,
it'll be a different war, a thermonuclear
war before it ends."
ROTC has "no place in our defense
system." All the U.S. will need for future
defense is a highly-trained professional
army of 500,000-600.000 men, he said.
The Russians want the Vietnam war
to end as much as the U.S. does. The
Russians were "forced into this thing and
would damn well like to see it end."
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