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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 91970
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
VOL. 94, NO. 44
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Faculty Senate asks
Rozman case delay
The Faculty Senate Tuesday
requested the Board of Regents
to hold action on the Stephen
Rozman case until a hearing
has been held before its
members.
The resolution, introduced by
Edgar A. Pearlstein, professor
of physics, , states, "The
University is concerned that
the case of Prof. Rozman be
conducted in accordance with
the proper procedures.
"We therefore request the
Board of Regents make no
decision as to Prof. Rozman's
status until there has been a
hearing before the Faculty
Senate."
The Regents have advised
Senate tables proposals
on student appointments
The Faculty Senate Tuesday
tabled all motions concerning
graduate student appointments
to the Senate's committees.
In the process, the Senate
also adopted one proposal af
fecting undergraduate
representation.
The action came in response
to a question over whether ap
pointment of graduate students
to Senate committees should be
made by ASUN or the as yet
unorganized Graduate Student
Association (GSA).
GSA's constitution has not
been approved by ASUN. If it is
approved, the group must ap
peal to the Board of Regents
for the power to make direct '
appointments to the Faculty
Senate committee. ASUN is
now the only student organiza
tion with this power.
It will take "several mmths,,
for GSA to go through the
necessary procedures to get
this power, according to ASUN
Pres. Steve Tiwald.
John A. Braeman, associate
professor of history, made the
motion to table a proposal to
add one graduate student to the
Calendar and Examination
Committee. This proposal was
the first of two to be tabled that
related solely to graduate
students.
In addition, a proposal . to
designate one undergraduate
and one graduate student to the
Grading Committee was tabl
ed. Henry E. Baumgarten, foun
dation professor of chemistry,
moved to defer action on the
proposal until both graduate
and undergraduate ap
pointments could be con
sidered. During the discussion, Dav.'d
J. Hibler, Instructor in English,
protested that while there was
some reason for tabling mo- '
tions relating to graduate ap
pointments, he failed to see any
in those relating to un
dergraduate representation.
Rozman that he might not be
reappointed to the University
faculty.
The resolution was added to
the annual report of the
Academic Privilege and Tenure
Committee.
This committee is consider
ing charges against Rozman,
associate professor of political
science, that he acted im
properly for a faculty member
during last May's student
strike.
Vernon F Snow, the com
mittee's chairman, refused to
comment on the case.
"This committee is playing a
judicial role," he said, "and it
simply can't comment."
"If we're going to contest
student representation, let's at
least have the honesty to vote it
down rather than to cloak it
over by tabling motions," he
said.
In his request to table the
first motion, Braeman had
questioned ASUN's represen
tation of students.
The Faculty Senate approved
proposals to include faculty
members below the rank of full
professor on seven committees
and a proposal to designate two
additional students to the
Committee on Honors Con
vocation. Turner tries
My Lai trial
University law professor
Wallace Rudolph, attorney for
Thomas W. Turner of Bellevue
who offered startling testi
mony in the My Lai court
martial trial, said Tuesday his
client wants to avoid publicity
in the affair.
"He (Turner) simply did his
duty as a citzicn," remarked
Wallace, adding that Turner, a
student at the University of
Nebraska at Omaha, would not
be tried for any offense con
cerning the case.
Wallace said he became
Turner's attorney because the
former soldier came to him
asking for "some advice."
Turner, 24-year-old former
Infantry team leader for Lt
William L. Galley, testified
Monday that Cailey had
organized the mass slaughter
of Vietnamese civilians. Cailey
Is charged by the government
for the premeditated murder of
102 civilians in the Vietnamese
village of My Lai on March 18,
1968.
The military judge at
Galley's trial, Col. Reld W.
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Herberg . . . "professional intellectual is particularly
Intellectual should know place
in public affairs Herberg
It's fine for an intellectual to
participate in the political life
of his country, but only if he
to avoid
publicity
Kennedy, denied a defense
motion for a mistrial on the
basis that Turner's testimony
went beyond the confines of
prosecution covered in the
government's bill of
particulars.
The bill mentioned only 30
killings in the southern part of
My Lai, 70 killings in a ditch
area and two individual kill
ings. The defense contended
that Turner's testimony of a 90
minute parade of several
groups of civilians to the ditch
was testimony that went
beyond the bill of particulars.
Kennedy late Monday
granted a defense motion to
strike out the other startling
point of Turner's testimony
that he saw Cailey pump
bullets into the chest of a young
Vietnamese woman who had
her arms upraised in a sign of
surrender.
Under cross-examination by
defense attorney George W.
Latimer, Turner was unshaken
in his story.
keeps in mind "the disad
vantages he has in being in
tellectual," according to a well
known social philosopher
speaking in the Nebraska
Union Tuesday.
"An intellectual is a free
wheeling, all-purpose social
critic, not necessarily well
educated or intelligent," said
Will Herberg, graduate pro
fessor of philosophy at New
Jersey's Drew University.
"What he wants is to be listen
ed to with deference."
Herberg, in a Nebraska
Union lecture sponsored by the
University's Institate for
Political Analysis organization,
said the appearance of the
dissenting intellectual Is one
aspect of a "Europeanixailou"
of America.
The Renaissance threw out
the cohesive, static society of
the Middle Ages and introduced
"the idea of the unlimited ex
pandability of man's horizons,"
Herberg explained.
Ideas like this produced
western society's first
"masterless man", he con
tinued. The masterless man brought
about the disintegration of
Middle Age social structures, ,
be said. The impact of this
disintegration fell upon the in
tellectuals. Intellectuals represented the
only segment of the population
that could sot fit fate the new
unfit for public affairs.
capitalist society after the
trade nnion movement rein
tegrated industrial workers,
Herberg said.
"The working class became
the most conservative segment
of the system," he said. But
intellectuals "have not had the
equivalent of a trade union
movement to give them a
vicarious sense of social
power."
Some of these alienated in
tellectuals "seem to believe
they have the right to be con
sulted in matters of policy as if
they were a third house of
congress," Herberg said. But
'a professional intellectual is
particularly unfit for public
affairs."
He mentioned that the late
Sen. Robert Kennedy regarded
Arthur Schlesinger as a "court
Jester" in his brother's ad
ministration. Robert alledgedly
asked Herberg, "do you believe
John is being governed by this
pipsqueak?"
Herberg said a good in
tellectual "pursues his
academic vocation single
mindedly and with full dedica
Uon,"and "studies the politics
of his country responsibily."
He said Henry Kissinger and
Daniel Patrick Moynihan are
"good Intellectuals. They have
specialized knowledge but don't
pretend to be running
things,"
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