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A & S faculty meet to by CAROL ANDERSON Nebraikan Staff Writer The College of Arts and Sciences faculty meets Friday to discuss whether to continue the acceptance of ROTC credit hours toward a degree in Arts and Sciences. The 3:30 p.m. meeting in the Morrill Hall auditorium will consider a resolution from the Arts and Sciences Executive Committee. The resolution supports the idea of a Joint ROTC Com mittee, including students, that would review and evaluate all ROTC courses and review all ROTC staff appointments. A Holmquist asks for inquiry into strike by MARSHA BANGERT Neoretkan Staff Writer A state senator who said he is "friendly towards the University and its football team" will ask the Executive Board of the Legislative Council Friday to conduct an Inquiry into recent campus events. Sen. C. W. Holmquist of Oakland said an Inquiry would inform the people of Nebraska about what happened on campus and for what reasons. He added that Nebraskans now are upset about campus events and that he fears the Univers ity's budget will suffer. "Somebody has to actually protect the University," he said. "The University needs both money and students to operate. "Students conducted themselves well during recent cam pus events considering what they went through," Holmquist said. "A minority of students were involved," he added. "I believe a majority of the students still want an education." Holmquist noted that he had received many complaints from taxpayers,. Of 150 letters, he said that one sympathized with campus events. Many of his letters came from parents of University students. "The strike really upset people in Nebraska, he com mented. "It's not going to end the war in Vietnam or pull the troops out of Cambodia, but it did divide the student body and instructors." Holmquist labeled James Kavanaugh, former Roman Catholic priest, an outside agitator. Kavanaugh addressed the peace rally May 9. He was an invited speaker. Proof of such outside agitators exists in newspaper reports including those of the DAILY NEBRASKAN, Holm quist said. Eighty members of the English faculty. Including the ' chairman of the department, who signed an ad printed in the DAILY NEBRASKAN were also "more or less agitating," according to Holmquist. The ad supported the student strike and condemned the American invasion of Cambodia. He said that the ad "excited people who did not agree" with Its viewpoint. If people in eutstate Nebraska ever learned that instruc tors had been Involved in such an action, those people would be "jumping up and down," according to Holmquist. The "College of Life' Is a side show, he also said. He suggested that wording on blackboards near the tents be erased, calling the wording "til thy." "Those tents are a blight on the campus and the university Itself," he said. Remember the speakers, movies, entertainment pool, bowling and food AIR CONDITIONING For dates and times consult the weekly calendar which will be prominently posted. Joint ROTC Committee was first proposed this month by a committee set up last fall by C. Peter Magrath, Dean of .Faculties, to study the rela tionship of ROTC to the academic community. The Arts and Sciences Ex ecutive Committee will further recommend that the College's faculty accept the position of the Arts and Sciences Student Advisory Board. The Board urges a thorough review of the ROTC curriculum to determine the merit of continued credit and to suggest course reforms. But the advisory board con tinues, "At present, however this Summer the argument that the needs of the country demand a liberally educated officer training corps persuade a majority of the Board that, for the time being at any rate, credit should be retained." The Executive Committee further recommends that Arts and Sciences drop its ROTC minor without changing the number of ROTC credit hours the college will accept Cur rently the number is 16-20 ROTC credits. The resolution also urges the College Curriculum Committee to consider options ranging from granting no credit for Cambodian letters Continued from Page 2 rocket and mortar attacks I can have some compassion for the terror I know he endures for his beliefs. But I'm gonna kill him if I can before I'll let him kill me even if it takes napalm and nothing works better in the jungle Summer seminar views education A special summer conference is being planned this summer on the recent crisis in American Education and its relation to social issues. Its purpose will be to continue the dialogue begun this May on reforms and innovations at the University of Nebraska. In particular, participants will focus on the apparently widening gap between the university and the state. A specific task will be to make recommendations for a more ambitious Summer Institute on Social and Environmental Problems, which may be held in 1971. Participants in this summer's conference will include faculty, administration and students at the University, as well as guests invited from the com munities and institutions serv ed by the University. Anyone Interested In participating in the conference should send his name and ad dress to Stephen HMlard of the English Department U jLJuivrjiJL discuss ROTC to encouraging the ROTC program. Other options include limiting the number of ROTC credit hours accepted and "counterbalancing' ROTC military training-by requiring other courses such as Political Science 252, "Civil Liberties in the U.S." In addition to recommending a Joint ROTC Committee, Magrath's study group ad vocated the following: 1) Eliminating the require ment that all chairmen of ROTC programs be "native Nebraskans." 2) The University should urge the Navy Department to allow married students and students majoring in pre-medicine and agriculture to participate in NROTC. 3) The Navy should be urged to allow a delay of active duty requirements of up to four years for graduate or pro fessional training. 4) If a student is kicked out of Army or Navy ROTC for non-academic reasons (disciplinary), he should be allowed to finish his current ROTC courses and receive credit for satisfactory work. (Air Force ROTC already has such a provision.) 5) The University should re quire the ROTC departments to open up another ROTC pro 10 lb. LOWEST ICE CUBES N TOWN AT IVIDEND 16th & P St. Just South of Cc!S!pJS Dividend Bended Gas WE NEVER CLOSE ROTC gram requiring no physical exam or oath which also would not provide pay for tuition, books, uniforms, etc. Under such a program the student would have the choice of ac cepting or declining a reserve commission up to the day he received his degree. 6) The federal government pay the University fully for the institutional costs of ROTC. The report concludes that efforts should be made to "break down the present state of semi-isolation which ROTC now occupies on this campus and to incorporate the ROTC programs more fully into the academic community." Magrath set up the etudy group on the assumption that as a land-grant college operating under the Morrill Act, the University Is "obligated to provide reserve officer education." The Morrill Act of 1862 provided that "military tactics" was to be among the "branches of learn ing" to be taught by the in stitutions benefiting financially from the act Some members of the study group disagreed about the ex tent of the "obligation" to teach military tactics. One view is that a single course in military operations could satisfy the obligation. Bcsg PRICE (ti mm sal I FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1970 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN PAGE 3
