Controversy continues
M&N janitor
by BRUCE WBVLMER
Nebraskan Staff Writer
The controversy on whether
the doors of the Military and
Naval Science Building were
locked on the evening of May 4,
1970, is continuing. A janitor
says he locked the doors of the
building shortly before students
"forcibly entered" the
building.
Oscar Johnson, the janitor,
said Thursday a campus police
officer Instructed him to lock
the doors of the ROTC building
and he did so.
Earlier this week Campus
Police Capt. Ken Markle told
The NEBRASKAN the doors
were not locked. Police Chief
Gail Gade confirmed that in
formation Thursday noting that
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says
to his knowledge
'the doors
were not locked."
Gade said he based his
statement on the fact that
about five minutes before the
demonstrators entered the
building for the overnight oc
cupation last spring, he and
another officer h&ti entered
through the same doors and
had found they were not lock
ed. Meanwhile the janitor who
reported locking the door also
said he found a piece of the
broken lock on the floor when
he returned to the front doors
after the initial entry.
Gade said he did not see or
hear any lock break. However,
he added that the lock could
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have been broken In several
different ways whether the
door was locked or not
Another Individual, who ask
ed not to be Identified, was
teaching a class in the building
at the time of the entrance. He
said he stood by the door just
before the demonstrators
reached It to identify his
students for a campus police
officer who would then unlock
the door and let them into the
building.
Gade said he had no idea who
this officer could have been.
The police chief identified the
only three police officers at the
building as himself, Markle and
officer Thurmond Stevenson.
Markle remained outside, Gade
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was locked
said, while he and Stevenson
went Inside.
Officer Stevenson is now
employed by the Seward police.
He said Thursday that he could
not remember how he and
Gade had entered the building
but "the doors appeared locked
tome."
Stevenson said the
demonstrators tried to open the
east set of doors first and found,
them locked. "Then they mov
ed to the middle doors and
after a few quick jerks the door
and lock parted ways."
This information would
parallel that in the Spelts
commission report which notes
"one student was able to pull
on one of the doors with suffi
cient strength to break the
lock."
It also confirms a story
which appeared in the 1970
Cornhusker strike supplement
signed by Dan Ladely, whom
Cornhusker to bel2
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staff writers and sales person
nel for the current year, ac
cording to Cornhusker editor
Bill Ganzel.
The 1971 yearbook will be
published in a 12 magazine
format, Ganzel said. The
magazines and a separate
poster are to be issued together
in a sturdy box.
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yearbook which has been tried
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the commission said was one of
the leaders of the occupation.
In the story . Ladely says,
Getting in was easy. The old
and inadequate locks come
open with one hard jerk."
Gade said he was certain the
doors were pushed open the
wrong way when the group
entered. He offered this as one
possible explanation for the
broken lock.
Another campus police of
ficial, detective Robert
Edmunds is quoted in the Lin
coln Journal as saying on the
night in question, the persons
involved pushed the doors in
ward instead of working them
correctly, thereby springing the
latches. He also said the doors
were not locked.
Gade added, "Everything
really happened so fast that it's
hard to remember all the little
details of something that took
place over four months ago.' '
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in only a few other places in
the nation," he said. "We feel
that in the task of reporting a
year's activities within a com
plex institution like the
University it is impossible to
treat each aspect individually
in one or two books."
Correction
Ou to printers error there was an
Incorrect statement In the Wednesday
Nebresfcan's story on parking. The Una
for parking In a University lot without
a permit Isn't 1110, Its only 110,
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