Martin Oppenheimer:
.Revolution necessary
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While revolution is necessary to
reconstruct a decaying society, tactics
and leadership are a must according
to sociologist, Martin Oppenheimer.
Oppenheimer, an activist in civil rights
and peace movements, addressed the
World in Revolution conference at the
University Wednesday morning.
He warned the audience not to "cop
out" on mankind. Government is work
ing on many diversions but, "don't get
caught-up in diversions like the en
vironmental bag," Oppenheimer said.
These issues are important, but, "hit
the , industrial complex, that's the real
target when talking about the environ
ment." The professor at Lincoln University
In Oxford, Penn., said blacks and poor
whites want a piece of society's action.
"If that society is smart it will give
them that piece of action and have
peace," he said.
OPPENHEIMER said, "Look at the
urban areas, the center of modern life.
Revolution will probably have to take
place there sometime." But, if anyone
Among oilier things
is serious about that kind of change
he must mold tactics."
Author of the book "The Urban Guer
rilla," Oppenheimer said revolutionaries
should establish a set power base and
leadership, decide on the method of
revolution and plan the new society to
follow.
He advocated using the "white collar
proletariat for a power base." Most
people would think the best group for
revolution would include blacks and poor
whites.
"Yet these groups are too easily
satisfied without a major change in
society and they don't communicate
well," said the former Congress on
Racial Equality (CORE) member.
Oppenheimer said "peasants can be
the cutting-edge for a revolution but
they can't reconstruct the new society
to follow."
"If I were in the establishment I would
legalize drugs, free sex. and things that
would get people to think less and less
about political aspects." Drugs, Op
penheimer said, cloud the mind and hide
the real evils that confront society.
"If you really want change, you have
to be committed."
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Nebraska Union
Thursday, March 19
Noon
Emeriti Assn.
U of N Foundation
Cody Elementary School,
Omaha
12:30 p.m.
Placement
College of Engineering &
Architecture
1 p.m.
World in Revolution
2:30 p.m.
Union-Weekend Film Con
mittee
Hyde Park
3:30 p.m.
4 p.m.
Court delays library funds
There is no way to tell how long it may be before
a decision is reached on funds for the proposed addition
to Love Library, according to University of Nebraska Lincoln
campus president Joseph Soshnik.
Work on the addition cannot begin until the state
Supreme Court decides whether the construction appropria
tion is legal, he said. The court has been considering
the validity of the appropriation since last fall.
Soshnik explained that the bill containing $4 million
In appropriations for the $6.5 million addition passed the
Unicameral on Its first two readings by a two-thirds majori
ty. But, it only passed by a simple majority on the final
reading.
The Governor did not veto the appropriation, he said.
However, since the bill was not proposed by the governor,
the state constitution stipulates it needs a two-thirds majority
to pass.
Soshnik said the question on the appropriation is whether
the two-thirds majority on the first two readings is sufficient
to fulfill the constitutional requirements.
Regents refuse
Lindsay degree
Berkeley, Calif. (CPS)
Mayor John Lindsay may be
good enough for New York, but
he's not good enough for the
University of California Board
of Regentts and Gov. Ronald
Reagan.
The Regents, In an 11-10 vote,
refused to give Lindsay an
honorary degree, making him
the first Charter Day Speaker
In the University's 101-year
history to be denied the
honor.
Opposition was led by
Reagan and other conservative
regents, one of whom asked,
"What's Lindsay ever done to
deserve anything like that
(honorary degree)?"
The action was seen as a slap
In the face of Berkeley
Chancellor Roger Heyns, who
invited Lindsay. Reagan is
known to wish Heyns would
quit, and only the fear of
University reaction has kept
the Regents from firing him.
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The library staff is doing all that is possible to get
ready to begin if the court decision is unfavorable, he
added. But, contracts for construction cannot be let until
the appropriations question is settled.
"The impetus to wrap up specifications and plans has
to wait for the action of the Supreme Court," Soshnikv'
said. "It is really impossible to say when this action
will come."
He added that though $4 million of appropriations are
involved in the courts, $2.5 million have been passed and
are not contested.
"There is no planning going on concerning a $2 5 million
expansion if the other appropriation is ruled illegal," Soshnik
said. "Our planning and needs are geared to a facility
of not less than $6.5 million."
He said that the feasibility of constructing a lesser
addition would have to be studied very closely Wore any
action might be taken.
Also Involved In the courts are appropriations for a
new Home Economics building on the East Campus. The
Governor vetoed this appropriation. The question Involved
Is whether two-thirds majority the bill had on one of
Its first two readings was sufficient to override the veto.
Union Board
6 p.m.
IEEE Dinner
Financial Aids Meeting
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia
AUF-Exec.
6:15 p.m.
YWCA-Cabinet
6:30 p.m.
Christian Science Org.
AUF-Board
7 p.m.
Quiz Bowl
Parking Appeals Board
NU Chess Club
Sigma Alpha Eta
Students for Laurldsen tor
Regent
Quiz Bowl Isolation
7:30 p.m.
NU Flying Club-Red Barons
Math Counselors
Spring Day Mens Games
Dept. of Latin American
Studies, Prof. Skidmore
I p.m.
NHRRF-Teen Age Project
I: IS p.m.
UHC, Dr. Stanley King
t:39 p.m.
Delta Tau Delta
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Jazz cellist to perform
Pinning
Jane Bender, Delta Zeta
senior in speech pathology and
audlology from Humphrey, to
Bill Wittmann, Triangle senior
In mechanical engineering
from Omaha.
Wanda Bessey, Zeta Tau
Alpha junior In elementary
education from Grand Island,
to Mark Stelk, Acacia junior in
economics from Grand
Island.
Jane Etmund, freshman In
Teachers College from Lincoln,
to Bill Otto, Delta Sigma PI
sophomore in business ad
ministration from Falls City.
Judy Berg, Alpha Delta PJ
junior in home economics from
North Platte, to Michael
Huebner, Ag Men Junior In
Teachers College from North
Platte.
Engagements
Joyce Nlederkleln, Selleck
Hall sophomore In home
economics from Daykln, to
Larry Meeske, Junior In
Teachers College from
Daykln.
Janice Drlewer, Delta Zeta
sophomore In business teacher
education from Hebron, to Dale
Klaumann from Falrbury.
Janice Fldler, Alpha Delta Pi
, senior in interior design from
Omaha, to Al Kammerer, NU
alum In English from
Omaha.
A famous jazz cellist and
trombonist, composer and now
teacher at the University of
Indiana, Dave Baker, will
perform with and direct the
University of Nebraska Lab
Band In the annual phi Mu
Alpha Sinfonia Scholarship
Concert.
The concert, entitled
"Portraits in Jazz XII," will be
held at 8 p.m. Thursday in
Kimball Recital Hall It Is open
to the public and all proceeds
go for scholarships to music
students at the University. The
band is directed by Robert
Bcadcll, professor of theory
and composition.
For several numbers, Beadell
will turn the baton over to
Baker. He will lead the group
in playing a number of his own
compositions.
Baker has played with such
jazz groups as Stan Kenton and
Lionel Hampton; he has been a
soloist with the Boston
Symphony Orchestra; has been
guest conductor of the In.
dianapolis Symphony and Civic
Orchestras and has taught at
Lincoln (Mo.) University, In
diana Central College and In
diana University.
An authority on Black Jazz.
Baker has won a number of
awards for his compositions,
which range from Jazz to
religious music. A number of
his pieces and many of his
performances have been
recorded on popular labels. He
Is also the author o several
books on Jazz technique and is
currently writing two books on
black music.
While on campus, Thursday
and Friday, Baker will also
lecture to students In an Afro
American studies classes. At
9.30 a.m., he will speak on
"Black Music," In Kimball
Recital Hall, and at 2:30 pm.
on "Liturgical Jazz.
On Friday Baker will speak
' at 9:30 a.m. In the choral room
of the Westbrook Music
Building.
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1970
