TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1970
FAGE 7
SUMMER NEBRASKAN
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Part of the closing ceremony was the lowering of the flag.
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The gourd dance, performed here by a young lady, is a favorite
of both young and old pow wow goers.
The idea of going to the 104th annual Winnebago Indian
pow wow and photographing it for the Summer Nebraskan
had sounded at first very much like a good idea.
It was then that I went in good faith to the pow wow
on July 25 in a small clearing near Winnebago, Nebr.
Within the first few minutes I knew that my project as
originally designed was a failure.
The festivity of the pow wow seemed to be the sort of
thing that so many people would like to see, therefore allowing
the truer problems of the American Indian Nation to go
unobserved.
The staring faces of hungry Indian children and sub-standard
housing also seemed to be a common theme for past photo
stories.
There may be no dynamic flow of ideals or concepts in
these photographs but rather hopefully they will seem as many
photographs from your own family reunion might appear, making
one realize that the Indian people are indeed human beings
to be treated as such.
James L. Dean
Visitors at the pow wow adorned themselves with Indian handi
craft available at several concession booths behind the dance arena.
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A young Indian boy tired of dancing and drums falls asleep in
his mother's arms.
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Braves both young and old enjoyed dancing to the traditional
songs and rhythms.
Facilities for handicapped
students are still 'inadequate'
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Miss Knipmcycr explained that staff
members will visit a prospective student
at his home "to see whether he would
be able to work here at the University."
Sometimes, she said, the student will
be referred to a one-building college,
such as at Chndron, for a period of
one year. Depending on the results there,
the student may then be admitted to
the University.
According to Miss Knipmeyer, there
has been no noticeable rise in the
number of physically handicapped
students applying for admission. The
Vietnam war, she said, will probably
not be felt for a few years, since many
of the GI'S are still undergoing extensive
physical rehabilitation.
Of the veterans who have returned
to the campus, Miss Knipmeyer said,
"They're some of the finest guys to
work with, and some of them have been
pretty badly Injured." She praised the
field hospitals in Vietnam, which she
said are saving a far higher proportion
of battlefield cases than the hospitals
of World War II.
Kenneth G. AlUson asrreed with Miss
Knipmeyer about the University's rate
of progress. Allison la district supervisor
tor the ataie'i Divkion of Rehabilitation
Servtan. "12 would be nice to have
the main campus of Nebraska open to
the handicapped," he said. He felt that
the design of the university ia keeping
immobile disablod students from apply,
ing.
According to Allison, many students
seeking the Service's help have been
referred to colleges at Pershing, or
Kearney, which have many ramps and
elevators, or to Beatrice, which is built
on one level.
Allison felt that a prime problem In
constructing special facilities fur the
handicapped Is the lack of funds. Ha
expressed a wish that those who had
been helped through the Service would
"take notice of the needs of services
and facilities for the disabled in the
state." He stressed that through the
rehabilitation program, a disabled
person can become a fully able worker,
no longer dependent on society.
Phi Upsilon Omicron, a women's
honorary In the College of Home
Economics, has Just completed a survey
in which university facilities and grounds
were checked tor accessibility to those
In wheelchairs. The survey Included 85
buildings on both the City and East
Campuses.
The survey, a special project for the
honorary, dealt with whether a han
dicapped person would be able to enter
classroom buildings without help and
how many of the buildings were com.
plctely usable by the handicapped.
The completed survey will be submit
ted to the administration In September,
according to Miss Mary Dais McGregor,
housing speckSst with the University
Extension Service.
Reasons for developing university
facilities and grtiittuis for handicapped
persons "are economic as well as
humanitarian,' Miss McGregor said.
"It's Just good business.
Return from the 'Green Circus'
Students don't stop questioning when they become soldiers
(Editor's note. Long-time students and
faculty members may remember Frank
Partsch as editor of the Daily
NEBRASKAN in the fall of 1968 and
creutor of the column "Closet Case."
Partsch hus since graduated from NU,
went on to receive his Muster's Degree
in Journullsm from Ohio State "Universi
ty, and spent two involuntary years In
the Army, one in Korea, from which
he just returned.
By Frank Partsch
A lotta sewage has sludged under the
ol' bridgo since 1966, when last these
lines saw print, and It's perhaps only
because of the sisterly forbearance of
the present proprietress that they can
insinuate their way onto the page now.
The topic is radlcallzation, and It will
be noted that conscription reared its
ugly head at one point during the
aforementioned silent period. Although
the Pentagon Isn't likely to provide any
figures on the increased radicallzation
of draftees, It Is my suspicion that the
inequities of the draft and the idiosyn
cracics of the service are producing
radicals and activists from groups
traditionally considered Immune, that ts,
from the very guts of the silent majority.
As I perceive It. there are two groups
of leaders In the Green Circus, the
natural leader and the institutional
leaders. The latter are the lifers, and
far too many of them are dull,
uninspired Individuals, impressed with
their own status and bound to tradition
(and the need to retire with clean
records).
Among the "lower" ranks, however
a great deal of leadership Is exerted
by the natural leaders: college students,
union chiefs, Panthers, streetflghters.
The old assumption that the army
"breaks" and "levels" its subjects into
a single mmd has always been Inac
curate, but It has never been more false
than today. The point Is that when the
natural leader has a proclivity to protest
and dissent, those whom he Influences
will react in kind.
This is happening. I have no way
of knowing how strong it Is but letters
from associates In units all over the
world would indicate that, In varying
degrees, it is present everywhere, from
the halls of the Pentagon Itself to a
sinull missile site In the mountains of
Asia.
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press, has documented many manifest
tions of this Increased radicalism. These
manifestations are good, and the in
stitutional leaders have begun to take
note. A few small improvements have
been made (change never happens
without pressure), and more are on the
way.
Mora Important, to my way of think
ing, art the conscripts who are willing
to do tha Uttlt things for now (military
Jails are not by any stretch of the
Imagination preferabla to civilian ones)
and save their manifestations until they
get out. These manifestations are good,
too. They appear in Veterans for Peace
groups and uncover My Lai's and things
of that sort.
If my observations are correct, Mr.
and Mrs. Smith had better think twice
about sending Johnny to the army to
get him straight before he goes to the
university. Johnny just might come back
from the war with a few ideas and
habits not considered socially acceptable
in the hulls of silence.
Proponents of the draft, too, might
consider this. Perhaps they would be
less anxious to punish all students for
asking questions if they realized that
they continue to ask questions while
in uniform. And teach farmers and
steelworkers and reservation Indians to
ask questions too.
It might also be a worthy topic of
discussion before they get too slaphappy
about universal lnvolunatary servitude.
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from tha morning sun.
Hold the mmjio
of a suddon breeze.
Keep those momenta alive.
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tor a lifetime
with a diamond
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Orange Blossom.
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