University
ky MARSHA BANGERT
Nebraskan Staff Writer
Three University ad
ministrators, five Regents and
various members of thfe
University community paraded
before Terry Carpenter and his
subcommittee Thursday to de
fend the new homophile course.
"This course is not going to
have a long life if I have my
way," Carpenter thundered
after the morning session. "The
Board of Regents will rne the
day they ever thought of it."
In the Douglas County Com
missioners' hearing room,
Carpenter criticized the Board
of Regents' handling of their
approval of the in
terdisciplinary course about
homosexuality. He charged
that the Regents discussed the
course in secret and failed to
gain sufficient knowledge about
what would be taught.
The Board discussed the
matter in executfve session
Deadline nears
for report on
discrimination
Associate Dean of Arts and
Sciences John W. Robinson,
who is preparing a special re
port on campus discrimination
for the University Board of
Regents, said recently his re
port "is coming along fine."
However, Robinson said any
one who is aware of discrim
ination on campus should con
tact him immediately. Robin
son is scheduled to have his
report completed by Nov. 15.
A policy adopted by the Re
gents in 1965 states, "selection
of students for membership in
student organizations at the
University of Nebraska must
be based on criteria which will
not include race or color."
Chancellor D. B. Varner last
May asked Robinson to deter
mine if the Regents' policy is
being effectively implemented,
investigate any areas of stu
dent life where evidence exists
that the policy is not being
satisfactorily implemented, and
recommend programs of action
or policy modifications which
will make the policy more ef
fective. reAt urtiiNu
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30,
community defends
during which no minutes were
kept, according to G. Robert
Ross, corporate secretary for
the Board of Regents. He ex
plained that the Regents were
apprehensive of media and pub
lic reaction to the course.
"Sometimes it's in the best
interest of the University not to
discuss things publicly," Ross
added.
The senator from Scottsbhiff
also charged that the Regents
have no real knowledge of
University courses. He said
courses are established by the
faculty without the Regents
being involved except to
"autom atically accept"
recommendations.
"Who's running the
University?" he asked. "It isn't
the Board of Regents in my
judgment. They're helpless
about what the University
recommends."
Joseph Soshnik, president of
the Lincoln campuses, said
each of the ten colleges studies
the courses offered. It would be
an impossible task for the
Regents to do such an in
vestigation with their limited
time and staff, he added.
Regent B. N. Greenberg
commented the Regents must
have confidence in the faculty.
He added that they are of I en
the most competent to judge
the worth of a course.
"The course underwent more
scrutiny than any course in the
first 100 years of the Universi
ty," because of its con
troversial nature. Regent
Richard Adklns remarked.
Carpenter also disdained the
secrecy resulting from Peter
McGrath's, dean of faculties
refusal to release the names of
students enrolled in the course.
McGrath said the student's
course schedule is considered
confidential under the bylaws -of
the Regents. "This does not
apply only and specifically to
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this course," he emphasized.
Carpenter also questioned
how the course was going to
help homosexuals.
"I've never seen a
homosexual admit it or that
they were sick or that they
liked it."
The Senator later said, "I
am completely without
knowledge in this matter. I
have had no contact with
homosexuals."
Carpenter said he wondered
how an Instructor who had not
had homosexual experience
could teach the course. "I
would think that all these in
structors ought to go out and
try it if they're going to
teach," he said.
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by Carpenter if homosexuality
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homophile course
Martin, University Health
Service psychiatrist, replied
that homosexuality is not one
simple problem. Rather it is
"a bushel basket full of com
plex problems," he said.
Martin accused Carpenter
and Sen. Henry Petersen Jr..
Omaha, of attempting to force
witnesses to take a stand on
the morality of homosexuali
ty. "All the instructors feel it is
not our job in this course or
any other to propagate any
moral teaching." Martin
said.
Pedersen joined Carpenter
in questioning the worth of the
course. "For a long time it
was understood that a queer
was a queer. Do you have to
take a 40-hour course to le
told there are nice literary
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queers as well as dirty
queers?"
"I hope this course teaches
that homosexuality is ab
normal conduct which should
be avoided," he added.
But the purpose, according
to James Cole, associate pro
fessor of psychology and
coordinator of the homophile
course, is to give the students
an understanding of the
phenomena of homosexuality
using all existing information
on the subject.
Pres. Soshnik expanded, the
course does not provide
"knowledge for knowledge's
sake. But the course will help
students who will come into
contact with homosexuals
know "the nature of the
behavior and the implications
of this behavior."
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