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Faculty defeats student appeal By refusing to alter the calen dar for fall in any way, the majority of the faculty at yesterday's Faculty Senate meeting succeeded in reas serting the axiom that students are niggers. Hiding behind parliamentary procedure and expedient appeals the action effectively says to many con cerned students: Your concerns are not as valuable as the good will of the doling legislature. Morality was successfully out bid. It is a farce to expect students to believe that the wishy-washy en dorsement of "no sanctions' has any meaning at all. Perhaps teachers will be prevented from giving hour ex ams or papers in that two week per iod, but perhaps will come a quiz, or an hour exam the day of the elec tion, or a test over that material of DAILY NEBRASKAN Saeon dan aosraga otltt at Ltacan,, Nao. TWlHWMt aMItar 4M-23, uamaaa Nawa CIUM. StHMcriptiooi rata ara s wr wiwaatan ar la par yaar. HiMlaha Monday Waonasday Thursday and FHday during tn atnoo yaar axcap aunna vocation am mam aariaOa. Mamaar or inlarcoHasiaKa Vaaa. National Educational Advar Using Sal-vie. Tha Dally NaorasKan Is sftioan cuWlcaNon, bKtaaandant at No UnNanity or Nebraska' admimstration, facalty and tfa dan govarnman. Adtfran; Daily Nabraskan 34 Naoraofca Onto Unlvarvtv or Nebraska Lincoln. Nadraaka m Idktoriat Snd Editor Jim Padarn; Managing Editor Susan Elsanhart Naws Editor Joftn Dvorak,- hiabraskan Staff Wrifars Bill; Smitharman, Caroh Anderson. Gary Saacrast, Jan. Parks,. Brvca Wlmmary Mick AAorlarty Linda Ulrich, Marsha Banqart; Pnotograpttar Sara Paterv Don Tramairv Sparta Editor Randy York, Assistant Sports Editor Stava Sinclair, literary Editor Can Ladaly, Entertainment Editor Fretf Eisenhart, News Assistant Susanna Schatvr; Editorial Assis tant Sua Schlichterneier;; Copy Editors Connia Winkler, Jim Gray, Karon Holm, Juna Wagoner, Dan Ladaly;: Night Navy) Editors Dave Filipi,. Tom Lanswortn Bvaineu Start Business Manager J ana ki dwell; National. Ad Manager , Martha Todd,- Bookkeeper Ron Bowlln; Business Secretary and Subscription Manager Janet Boatman.-- Circulation! Managers Kelly Baker,, Dan Ladely. James Stelzer, Classi fied Ad Manager Joa Wilson. Production Manager Rack Johnson," Account Representatives, ken Seven tier, Sarah Evertv, Martha Todd, Joa Wilson, Kelly Baker. 970 Cornhusker Strike Supplement . The most complete coverage cf the spring strike. $1.00 On Sab till May 29 Union the two weeks soon following the campaign. But more basic than that is the obvious point that many students who miss two weeks of class find it impossible to complete the semester. No one need mention what possible sanction power this has over a stu dent with a I-S deferment. Likewise it is farcical to expect students to trust any sort of pro posed review board to enforce the t4no sanction' rule. The experiences of the past few weeks,, and of years in unresponsive departments have convinced students they have no re course as far as many faculty are concerned. Matching this sellout indeed surpassing it was the amendment to the Human Rights Commission re port Benign what? But where will the faculty be this summer: where ever, but not at 27th and Vine and not at 24th and Lake. There are perhaps three groups who must feel vindicated: those fac ulty who chose expediency those people who would deny any dissent ing voice and the radicals whose prophecies are being realised. June Wagoner Susie Eisenhart Mi Two views on faculty action (Editor's note: Following Thursday's Faculty Senate meeting a faculty member and a student quickly responded to the Daily Nebraskan.) Dear Editor: Yesterday's action by the faculty amounts to a total moral and ethical refusal to accept the responsibility placed on the faculty of the University of Nebraska to act in a manner befitting pro fessors who teach the virtues of citizenship. At the point of student disturbance the faculty voted to accept the principle of student participation. When the confrontation was over the majority of the faculty returned to playing parliamentary games and adopted an immoral position. When the faculty essentially voted against the increasing participation of minority group students and when it accepted Professor Braeman's formulation of altering the report of the Committee on Human Rights the majority of the faculty en dorsed the worse racist principles that go funda mentally against justice in the United States of America.. For those of us who have supported the middle course who have counseled against violence the action of the majority of the faculty comes as a tragic and unfortunate reversal Let all of us in the future remember John Kennedy's words "Those who make peaceful change impossible make revolutionary change inevitable. Ivan Volyges Dear Editor: I am sick and tired of people telling me to work within the system and then acting in such a manner as to make it impossible to do so. I had counted on spending the pre-election months working for anti-war candidates realizing that the crucial period of the campaign is the two weeks immediately prior to election day. Now the faculty has apparently told me that they will not let me do so. If I choose to fulfill my civic responsibilities I must complete 15 weeks of classwork in only 13 weeks. Whether we like to label it as such or not that amounts to a penalty. Having recently visited Senators and Congressmen as a representative of University students, I was repeatedly urged by them to change American policy by changing American policymakers. That option is now largely foreclosed to concerned students by the action of the faculty. Ken Wald Cambodia . . . two views (Editor's note: The Daily Nebraskan recently received this letter from a serviceman in Cambodib.)) Dear Editor Thank you for jour support ' in the condemnation of the President's recent actions in Cambodia. News stories of protest throughout the nation are the only morale boosters we have in Cambodia. I, speaking for a majority of the members of this unit presently in Cambodia, ap preciate the concern you have shown for our welfare and more important for the welfare of our nation. Many of today's so-called 'leaders pull the American soldier into their arguments telling the silent majority that to support their policies of aggression they are saving our lives. These leaders have not bothered to take a poll of Americans in Vietnam and Cambodia. They either do not recognize or they Ignore our deep resentment at being used as a patriotic shield for their aggressive and unpopular ac tions In Southeast Asia and at home. Only through constant protest and determined information programs can you ear representatives In American society stop the madness of war and put the voice of the people back in the leadership of America. Sincere thanks James Carroll Service Battery 7th Battalion 8th Field Artillery APO SFC9622T (Editor's note: These are excerpts from a letter from a soldier in Cambodia to a University student.) . When I first found out about the move I had mixed emotions. I was disappointed as hell at the idea of expanding the war, but I was also getting tired of watching our ground units try to fight an enemy that could hit us at will and then disappear across the border before we could bring our far superior fire power onto h&n. As you may know, I've never been a fan of Slippery Dick Nixon (but I've never been so optimistic about the situation as I am now. What is discouraging is news of people's reactions back in the world. They're trying to crucify Nlaon for the smartest move anybody's made sine the war began The thrust Into Cambodia was well timed and well ex ecuted, a tribute Indeed to the 1st Air Cav which handled the operation in the "Fishhook." What it amounted to was an airmobile assault that com pletely and totally surprised the gooks and had them sur rounded and cut off in a matter of hours. The 2nd 3rd and 4th days of the operation were devoted to strengthening and establishing fire support bases for the initial insertion. I didnt get to- go on any assaults until ihe 3rd day. Since then I've flown the area quite frequently. After they'd established themselves the troops started moving in. They ran into con. tact numerous times but every time they did they pulled back and dug in and called the world th on top of Charley artillery, air strikes Cobra gun ships the most devastating array cf military air power the world has ever seen. And that's why the killed-In-action ratios have been so overwhelmingly in our favor Burning a man to death is a horrible way to change his politics but after you've been here a while and been shot at a few times you realize that Charley's sole purpose in life is to kill you and he's not playing games. Hi bullets don't discriminate between war mongers and peace-lovers and ' neither do his rockets. Having sat througb about a dozen Continued a Page 3 PAGE 2 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN FRIDAY. MAY 22, 1970