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MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1970
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
VOL. 93, NO. 85
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AS
UN holds 'big top' election
Many critics have charged
that ASUN this school year has
resembled a circus, so it is only
fitting that voting on the City
Campus for this Wednesday's
ASUN elections will be in a big
tent.
ASUN's "big top" is 40 feet
by 60 feet and will be located in
the closed-off portion of 14th
Street.
Electoral Commissioner
Glenn Nees said he hopes using
the tent wHI increase the voting
turnout. Previously the voting
on the City Campus was done
in several locations according
to colleges.
Students will be voting
Wednesday for ASUN ex
ecutives and senators, advisory
board members and May
Queen. Voters will also decide
the fate of three proposed
ASUN constitutional
amendments.
If the amendments are ap
proved the quorum in the
ASUN Senate will be lowered
from two-thirds to three-fifths
of the membership.
The proposed ASUN
amendments to be ratified
must be approved by a ma
jority vote with at least thirty
percent of the eligible students
voting in the election, or by an
affirmative vote of fifteen per
cent of the eligible voters when
less than thirty percent of the
eligible students vote.
Thus the situation could arise
Wednesday where fifteen per
cent of the University students
ratify amendments which
would permit 11 senators out of
a total membership of 35 to
pass legislation and resolutions
when a quorum is present.
However, appropriations bills
would still require the approval
of two-thirds of the entire
voting membership of the
Senate.
To be eligible to vote
Wednesday students must
present their I.D. cards.
The schedule for Wed
nesday's elections:
City Campus from 8:00
a.m. to 3:30 p.m. all voting will
take place in the election tent
on the closed-off portion of 14th
Street. From 6:00 p.m. to 8:30
p.m. all voting will take place
in the Nebraska Union.
East Campus from 8:00
a.m. to 5:30 p.m. all voting will
take place in the East Union.
Only students from the College
of Dentistry and the College of
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hoo by Don Trwn'n
Earth Day is Wednesday. See the
Rag's special section, page 5.
Agriculture and Home
Economics will be voting on tho
East Campus. From 6:00 p.m.
to 8:30 p.m. all voting will take
lace on the City Campus in the
Nebraska Union.
Editorials page 2
Pollution page 6
Sports page 12
Regent objects to
homophile course
Regent Richard L. Herman of Omaha has raised objec
tions about an interdiciplinary course in homophile studies
scheduled to be offered next fall.
"My principal objection to the course lies in the Instruct
tor, Dr. Louis Crompton," Herman said. "I don't really
think an English professor is qualified to teach a course
like this."
The course is cross-listed in English, anthropology, and
psychology. Crompton, an English professor, is course
coordinator.
Herman said he saw no reason why the course should
be listed under English. This type of course should be
taught by psychiatrists and sociologists, he said.
Crompton is national chairman of the religious committee
of the North American Conference of Homophile Organiza
tions. He is also the group's platform chairman.
"Dr. Crompton has made statements in the past that
homosexuality is a natural phenomenon," Herman said. "I
question whether any man who has made statements like
this can teach a course on homophile studies objectively."
Herman said he may bring the course to the attention
of the Board of Regents in its Wednesday meeting. Before
the meeting Herman plans to do more research on the
course and on Crompton's background, he said.
Dean of Faculties C. Peter Magrath said the course
was approved in a normal fashion. As well & being approved
by the curriculum committees of the departments involved
the course was unanimously approved by the curriculum
committee of the College of Arts and Sciences.
Since it carries graduate credit, the course was also
unanimously approved by the Graduate Council, which con
sidered it on two separate occasions, Magrath said. He
emphasized that the course was reviewed intensively before
being included in toe 1970-71 schedule.
"In my judgment this is a soundly constructed and
academically relevant course," he said.
"The course was cross-listed because it deals with many
aspects of the homosexual In society," Magrath added.
"It is listed in English because one of the major questions
about the problem of homosexuality is how it has been
treated in literature."
He said Crompton is highly qualified as an Instructor
of Engtish literature. The course will also encompass religious
questions about homosexuality which Crompton is highly
qualified to teach, he added.
Magrath said the course will draw resource people from
a number of sources as well as the three listed instructors.
The other instructors listed are James Cole, director of
the University's clinical training program in psychology
and Dr. Louis Martin, chief psychiatrist in the mentai
health divisiion of the University Health Service.
Crompton said he had no comment about the course.
Meet the masters
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Students will have an opportunity to meet and talk with
fifteen outstanding University alumni at an informal coffee
during Masters Week Monday afternoon.
Co-chairman Joe Voboril emphasized the get-together Is
for all students. The coffee is from J to 3 Monday.