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MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1970
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
VOL 93, NO. 63
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Robinson: 4I don't expect cooperation'
The Council on Student Life will keep
pushing for non-discrimination in University
organizations although the black walk-out
last week "demonstrated clearly that they
aren't interested in joining fraternities and
sororities," according to Prof. John W.
Robinson, CSL chairman.
"I wish we could talk to each other,
but I understand why they walked out,"
Robinson said. He was referring to the
20 Afro-American Collegiate Society (AACS)
members who left the CSL meeting last
week a'long with two black CSL student
members.
"They've been seriously maltreated for
a long time, so I don't expect them to
cooperate," Robinson continued.
He said he wasn't "terribly optimistic"
about making much progress "because the
problem is so difficult. The solution lies
in education." CSL alone "can't do all
that much," the chairman said. "But we
can get things moving."
This is the first time in six years
that racism has been publicly discussed
Robinson explained. The Regents 196b
policy statement banned discriminatory
practices in the selection of members in
University organizations. Not much has
happened since then, he added.
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John Robinson
CSL member Walt Strong, an ad
ministrator in the student affairs office,
said he hopes his resolution concerning
alleged Greek discrimination will be con
sidered by the CSL Tuesday. That meeting
will extend the discussion of discrimination
at the University to other campus areas
besides the Greek system, Strong said.
He said his proposal is aimed at more
than the black-white issue. "It gets at
whether this University is going ahead or
going to keep on being hypocritical."
Strong said the AACS students left last
week's meeting "because they are fed-up
with hypocricy on campus and with the
statements of the IFC president who said
he had no solutions. No one has any solutions
when the chips are down."
University discrimination is beyond
debate and up to University policy, Strong
continued. He said his proposal wasn't in
tended to encourage blacks to join Greek
houses.
"You can't blame blacks for not wan
ting to join fraternities and sororities,"
Strong said. "When something is unjust,
even if you don't want to have anything to do
with it, you want to change it."
As students protest
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Zink sentenced to
About 150 demonstrators
stood silently outside the U.S.
post office building Friday
while Larry Zink, a former
University of Nebraska stu
dent, was sentenced to a max
imum of four years imprison
ment for burning his draft
card.
The quiet group of protestors
carried signs and listened to
the people who spoke about the
war and the draft.
Zink was sentenced under the
Federal Youth Corrections Act,
which means he will be able to
apply for release at anytime
after starting to serve his
sentence.
A major In electrical
engineering at McCook Junior
College, the 23-year-old Zink
dropped out of s c h o o 1 during
his senior year. He burned his
draft card and classification
papers before about 200 people
during a Hyde Park session in
the Nebraska Union Feb. 13,
1969.
Some of the signs at the
demonstration read: "End
Conscription Now;" "Burn
Paper, Not People;" and "Set
Freedom Free Repeal the
Draft."
U.S. District Court Judge
Robert Van Pelt denied Zink's
request to be placed on proba
tion. "I think it would be im
proper if you were given a
sentence to escape service
while some other boy from
your community serves in," the
judge said.
In his own defense, Zink said
that it is "such a waste for
myself to spend some years in
prison when there is a
possibility I could do some good
in this society."
The Rev. R. H. Powell,
pastor of the Christ Temple
prison
Mission began the demonstra
tion with a prayer.
Those opposed to war and
conscription must redouble
their efforts to make this
society an open one, said Ron
Kurtenbach, a graduate student
in English.
"Larry's committment is a
great one, and at times I envy
him. I am a conscientious ob
jector, but maybe I should have
gone to jail too," he said.
Kurtenbach also asked those
gathered to help fight the
hopelessness and cynicism in
society. "We feel desperate
sometimes, but we've got to
continue."
Jim Riordan labeled the draft
and the war a waste of people
and a crime against humanity-
"It's sickening to watch peo
ple go to jail and rot for
nothing, he said.
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