Court denies student power FBI director warns
students 01 radicals
The independence of the New
York State University Student
Association at Albany was
declared illegal, and its opera
tions effectively shut down, in a
decision rendered Sept 17, in
New York Supreme Court.
The decision may set a
precedent for all state schools
whose student governments
operate with mandatory stu
dent activity fees.
It was the outcome of a suit
brought by two Albany State
students over the expenditures
in 1969-70 for "political" mat
ters such as transportation to
Washington for the Vietnam
Moratorium, creation of a free
school, and a black cultural
weekend.
The decision enjoined the
University and the Student
Association leaders from
permitting the making of any
further expenditures the in
curring of any debts until the
Board of Trustees had review
ed and approved the budget.
The action immediately af
fected every student activity at
Albany. State, including in
tercollegiate sports, club ac
tivities, dances, concerts and
the operation of the student
news media. It placed the stu
dent government in the unusual
position of facing complete or
partial control by the Board of
Trustees.
That's an interesting
development," said Bob
Pfiefer, ASUN First Vice
President Nebraska is also a
state university which , uses
student fees to fund student
activities.
"But I can't believe anything
like that would happen here,"
added Pfiefer.
"All the moratorium, strike,
and Free University money
spent at NU in May came from
private donations, he ex
plained. "None of it was stu
dent fee money."
Student government gets
some complaints about its
speakers program, but the
program is well-balanced, he
continued. "For every Adam
The Nebraska Union
Foreign Film Society
presents
The Yvjo otf Us
Clayton Powell there's a Bill
Russell."
Pfiefer said the ASUN
Legislative Liasoo Committee
does a good deal of lobbying.
But this lobbying is done
mainly on items of the
University budget that are in
the students' interest, be ex
plained. "We deal in all kinds of
politics," he added, "but ASUN
money is being used for the
student good."
However, the New York
decision was widely regarded
as a landmark. The decision
makes it possible for any stu
dent in any state supported
school to move for a
restraining order against his
own student government pro- -vidmg
the government funds
itself through a mandatory ac
tivity tax.
Weightlifting
meeting Tuesday
A meeting for students in
terested in competitive
weightlifting is planned for .
Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the
Coliseum basement.
A group of lifters formerly
known as the Lincoln Lifters, is
now a student organization
known as the University of
Nebraska Weight-lifting team.
Tryouts for the team will be
held in weight divisions of 123
lbs, 132, lbs., 148 lbs.. 165 lbs.,
181 lbs.,198 lbs., 242 lbs. and
super heavyweight for both
Olympic and power competi
tion. Team members must be
NU students in good standing
carrying 12 or more hours.
Any interested student who
'cannot attend the meeting
Tuesday should contact Boyd
Epley of the Men's Physical
Education Department
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WASfllNGTON - (CPS) -FBI
director J. Edgar Hoover,
in an "open letter to college
students" issued at the opening
of the fall school year, has
pinpointed eight ploys used by
radical extremists in their ef
forts to steer justifiable cam
pus protest into violent and
destructive channels."
Hoover listed eight ways that
"extremists will try to hire you
into their activities.":
'They'll encourage you to
lose respect for your parents
and the older generation. This
will be one of their first at
tacks, trying to cut you off
from home. You'll hear much
about the "failures" and
"hiocrisy" of your parents
and their friends.
"They'll try to convert you to
the idea that your college is
"irrelevant" and a "tool of the
establishment". The attack
against the college ad
ministration is often bitter, ar
rogant and unreasoning.
SDSers, for example, have
sought to disrupt colleges by
demanding the right to select
professors, determine the cur
riculum and set grading stan
dards. "They'll ask you ta abandon
your basic common sense.
Campos extremism thrives on
specious generalizations, wild
accusations and unverified
allegations. Complex issues of
state are wrapped in slogans
and cliches.
"They'll try to envelop you in
a mood of negativism,
pessimism, and alienation
towards yourself, your school,
your nation. This is one of the
most insidious of New Left
poisons. SOS and its allies
judge America exclusively
from its flaws ... I would
want you to lock for the deeper
unifying forces in America, the
moods of national character,
determination and sacrifice
which are working to correct
these flaws.
"They'll tell yea that any
action is honorable and right if
it is 'sincere' or 'idealistic
ia motivation. Here is one of
the most seductive New Left
appeals that if an arsonist's
or anarchist's heart is In the
right place, If he feels he Is
doing something for
'humanity or a higher
cause, then his act, even if il
legal, is justifiable ... Just
being a student or being on
campus does not automatically
confer immunity or grant
license to violate the law.
"They'll ask you to believe
that you, as a student and
citizen, are powerless by
democratic means to effect
change in our society . . . Public
opinion time after time has
brought new policies, goals and
methods. The individual is not
helpless or caught in
'bureaucracy'' as these ex
tremists claim.
"TheyH encourage you to
hurl bricks and stones instead
of logical argument to those
who disagree with your views. I
remember an old saying: 'He
who strikes the first blow has
run out of ideas.
"Violence is as ancient as the
cave man; as up-to-date as the
Weatherman. Death and injury,
fear, distrust, animosity,
polarization, counter-violence
these arise from violence.
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THE NEBRASKAN
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1970
