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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1970
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
VOL. 93, NO. 86
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Hurry, hurry, hurry! Tlie ASUN circus is
about to begin! Under the bigtop you'll find bal
lots and pencils for the 1970 ASUN elections. The
tent is on 14th St. next to the Student Union.
University-a soap box
A university politicized is a
university doomed, according
to Morris B. Abrams, former
president of Brandeis
University who addressed the
University's 42nd annual
honors convocation Tuesday.
"The university should be a
soap box. Every man can stand
and speak his will. The box
should not be tilted so either
left, right, or center falls off,"
Abrams said.
Students today, Abrams con
tinued, contest the mission of
the university as a transmittor
of learning and a searcher for
new truth. Students in the 60's
micstion the neutrality of the
institution in seeking the truth,
he snid. However a university
trying to be neutral is better
than a system computerized to
one side, he added.
Abrams, until recently the
president of Brandeis
University, has had a
distinguished career in public
service and has heM important
assignments in the U.S.
government and in the United
Nations.
Radicals say the university is
tilted to what "ij " and the '
maintenance of what "is."
They see the university as a
powerful instrument for social
change. Abrams said.
"The university is attacked
because it is near and
vulnerable," he f.aid. "The
young believe in instant
perfectability and assume that
if the university is not with
them it is against them.
"The university does not ex
ist to solve political and social
problems. It is supposedly
neutral," Abrams said. A
university should celebrate
things of reason, not of feeling,
Tlie highest scholastic award for University students
was presented to four seniors during the 42nd annual honors
convocation Tuesday morning.
Victoria Dianne Burgin received the Boucher award
fur the highest cumulative grade average for a senior woman.
A graduate of Bitburg, Germany American School, she
is majoring in psychology and has a 4.25 grade average.
John Harlan Mahaffy, from Lincoln received the Boucher
award for the highest average for senior man. His average,
earned in physics and mathematics, is 4.223.
Paul Lamont Engstrom was named the Reserve Officers
Training Corps (ROTC) candidate with the highest four-year
cumulative grade average. Engstrom had a 3.986' average
and is a mathematics major from Grand Island.
Randall Robert Reeves earned the Boucher award for
the senior sports letterman with the highest four-year
average. Reeves, from Omaha, has a 4.059 grade average,
lie lettered in football three years while playing defensive
safety for the Cornhuskerrs.
Also at the Honors Convocation, Tuesday, five teachers
Grad visitation gets OK
CSL approves
controversial
The Council on Student Life
Tuesday approved three con
troversial proposals that will
have to pass the Regents' in
spection before becoming
University policy.
CSL passed proposals
permitting limited visitation In
two graduate dorms in Selleck;
okayed a motion expanding the
sponsorship of open houses and
IDA hours in Cather-Pound to
student assistants and dorm
government officers; and
unanimously approved a
student's right to privacy
statement.
The visitation proposal is the
graduate students' fourth try at
gaining Regent approval. But
this time CSL has added its
endorsement to that of the
Housing Policy Committee
(HPC).
The proposal calls for visita
tion by specific invitation only
from noon to 11 p.m. Monday
through Thursday and from
noon to 1 a.m. Friday through
Sunday.
According to graduate stu
dent Elsie Shore, the graduate
he said. Sensitivity sessions
should be held outside the
university community.
Major disruptions In
universities eventually involve
the question of university
government. Abrams said it is
often a matter of proper mix
ture of faculty and senate control.
students in Benton and
Fairfield Halls have approved
the proposal. The few students
voting agr.inst it have said they
would go along. She said the
average age for graduate
women is about 25 and 32 for
men.
Miss Shore said the Regents
turned down the proposal
before on the basis of the in
adequacy of dorm facilities to
protect privacy. Although the
students said they were willing
to put up with the inconve
nience and had presented other
safeguards such as residents
escorting visitors, the Regents
gave no other reasons for axing
the proposal, Miss Shore
said.
In answer to the comment
that if graduate students didn't
like living in the dorms they
. could move out, she said, "I
disagree with the like it or
leave it idea."
She said graduate students
value dorm living highly and
"If you like a place you stick
with it and try to change it."
After passing the visitation
measure CSL dug into Cather-
for every man
Abrams noted the difference
between student and faculty.
Student ideas in government
and in appointment of teachers
and curriculum choice are good
he said, and should be con
sidered, but power is different
from advice.
Reform in the university
structure, Abrams said, is
at the University were cited by the University Foundation.
Each received $1,000 plus a distinguished teaching medallion
from Foundation I'resident Harry It. Haynie.
The teachers honored were:
Audrey Newton, chairman and professor of the depart
ment of textiles, clothing and design;
John Janovy Jr., assistant professor of zoology and
physiology;
William S. Kramer, chairman and professor of pedon
dontics; Donald M. Edwards, associate professor of agriculture
engineering.
Students gave the Builders Student Professorship award
to Keith W. Pritchard, associate professor of history and
philosophy of education in Teachers College.
Pritchard became the sixth winner of the award, prized
because the professor Is student-elected and because the
$500 award is raised solely by student contributions.
Lloyd D. Teale, associate professor of romance languages,
was recognized with the Annis Chaikin Sorensen Award
for distinguished teaching in humanities.
three
moves
Pound's proposal to expand
open houses and IDA hours.
The big difference between the
present policy and the proposed
policy is the addition of student
assistants and dorm officers to
the list of sponsors that now
include faculty, staff and
parents.
Debate heated up when CSL
members John Lonnquist and
Lynn Webster tried to modify
the proposal to insure Regent
approval. They suggested
omitting student government
sponsorship and adding only
student assistants.
John Marker, IDA vice
president and Cather resident,
who defended the measure ob
jected to omitting students
saying students are capable of
governing themselves.
Bill Chaloupka called the
suggestion "an affront to all
students."
Housing Director Ely
Meyerson said the University
should provide students with
experience at governing
themselves and
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possible by using the system.
Demonstrators must play by
the rules and forgo violence he
added.
"The crisis of today was left
by my generation and that
before it. Your job, as a
students, is to see that , the
crisis of our times will not be
your legacy, Abrams said.
