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Housing study to begin Nearly one half of the students at the Uni versity of Nebraska live in on-campus housing and every one of these students is affected by Uni versity housing policies policies which in the past have emanated from many sources. Three years ago the Regents provided for the creation of the University Housing Policy Com mittee. Composed of seven students appointed by ASUN and five faculty-administration members, this body has since become a permanent commit tee of the Council on Student Life and this year is particularly active in several areas of housing policy. Target areas for the group involve social policy in all the on-campus living units matters of study will include closing hours, room guest privileges and other concerns of this nature. The committee has also been charged with investigating the problems of married and low income students, an area of major concern to a large number of students. The committee will be reascarching this subject between now and the be ginning of second semester and urges anyone with housing problems in this or any related areas to contact Housing Polcy Committee members through the Housing Office. This University ranks last in the Big Eight in regards to the number of married student housing units . . . hopefully the recommendations of the Housing Policy Committee will help to rectify this situation. Barry Pilger Staff member Dr. Hip Pocrates fw hM I READ NEXT 1.Mt"Tttr cpir? Adventures of emiljue: Drugs can be dangerous to everyone, boys and girls! by EUGENE SCHOENFELD, M.D. Dear Dr. Schocnfeld: I don't know whether I'm pregnant or whether my system is Just very fouled up. The first time I ever had in tercourse was two months ago. Ten days later I had my period but only a very little. I haven't had my period since. Is It possible for me to be pregnant? I thought after hav ing my period it was impossible but I'm now 17 days late and very worried. During the past few months I've been doing a lot of drugs smoke, diet pills, downs, meth, MDA and psylidbin. I did the last 2 dur Ing the past weekend. Could these drugj be affecting my system causing me to be late? I really don't know what to think. If I am pregnant, how do I go about cettinc a lceal abortion? Do I have to tell my parents? It would just hurt them so much. I'm 19 (20 in February) and am going to school at the University of Miami; I have so much on my mind right now I'm having a hard time doing my school work. In fact, I'm having trouble doing everything. I never thought I'd have this problem. Even now I can hardly conceive the idea. I can't believe I'm writing you either. ANSWER: Your menstrual period could be delayed by the drugs you mention, emotional upset (such as fear of pregnancy or pregnancy. A pregnancy test obtained through a gynecologist or Planned Parenthood would answer your question very quickly. If you should be pregnant Planned Parenthood also pro- THE NEBRASKAN Telephones Editor: 472-7SM, BwneMI 47J-25W, Newt) 472-J5W. Second clau SWoS? ZmTfrvft ..m....r or M.SO per year. MtM MMK Wednesday, Thurtdny and Friday during the achool year except during vaca tion, a Member of the Intercollegiate Pre, National Educ TN"""to Vtuent publication. Independent of the Unlvertlty Of No rasKa'a admlnltratlon, faculty and Kudent Government. Addrosu The Nebraikan i 34 Nebraska Union J Unlvertlty of Nebraska Lincoln, Nebraska M5M vides counseling services, In cluding referrals for legal abortions whjen indicated. Dear Dr. Hip Pocrates: I am very concerned about the effects marijuana smoking has upon me. Almost always I have a bad time. I get very frightened and paranoid. Often I can't talk and at times I start to shake. I feel very unconfident. This has caused me to shy away from hip people which is not where it's really at these days. When turned on with grass I get a very fast, pulsating (about strobe light speed) vibration. With acid or speed I do not notice the vibration or fear and helplessness. Any In formation you can give will be greatly appreciated. ANSWER: Marijuana often produces feelings of paranoia but the symptoms you describe should cause you to stop using the drug now. People who are truly hip won't put you down because you don't use marl juana. Dear Dr. Hip: Please tell mc If it is possible that certain people can have a - kind of allergic reaction to smoking grass. It seems that too often when I smoke I get a kind of suffocating feeling. As silly as it sounds, I feel that I have to burp" and I can't, then pressure seems to build up. If medically this is Im possible then I guess I have to come to terms with this on a psychological basis. ANSWER: See the letters preceding and following yours. Allergy to marijuana Is possi ble or you may be swallowing rather than Inhaling the smoke. Dear Dr. Schocnfeld: I've been smoking marijuana for about 3 years. During this time I've passed out several times while taking a hit. I would like to know if the brain suffers any damage during this period of unconsciousness. I sure like smoking dope but I don't want to go crazy. ANSWER: Stop smoking dope and get a complete physical examination. Be sure to tell the physician your symptoms when you are exanuu d, Losing consciousness as you describe It Is neither normal hor healthy. Besides the possibility of harm from pass ing out frequently, you might fall and seriously injure yourself. WARNING: If you're con- siderinff seeing a film called THE ZODIAC COUPLES, save your time and money. Un fortunately I sat through this loser at the opening of San Francisco's First International Erotic Film Festival. The ZODIAC COUPLES manages to make both astrolorrv and sex insufferably trite and bor . ing. Dr. Schocnfeld welcomes your letters. Write to him at 2010 7th St., Berkeley, Cal. 94710. FSM speaks, free Dear Editor, Last Monday some members of the Free Speech Movement (FSM) met in the ROTC building, since other locations such as the Union and UMHE seemed so familiar as to stifle creative thought and since these familiar places, for all we know, are bugged. Ten or 15 of us gathered informally in the front hall of the ROTC building to think about rock dances, picketing, and such acts of sabotage. After consultation, ROTC officials suggested the use of what appeared to be a combination conference room and war room, and we ac cepted their gracious offer. For the next hour, our meeting was constantly inter rupted, first by surveillance of ROTC people, and then by the .appearance of the Chief of Campus Police, Gail Gade himself, and several of his lieutenants. Chief Gade thought we should have asked permission to hold a meeting, and said that the forces of law and order might take an in terest whenever three or more people gather in public, say on O Street. The campus police proceeded to take apparently meticulous minutes of the proceedings. It was hard to keep track of our visitors, but Wednesday's Rag says they included at least two University officials and the ASUN President, who were there apparently to mediate an expected revolution. At least three photographers mean dered through the room, taking snapshots for reasons known only to themselves, the campus cops, the ROTC, the FBI, the CIA, Army Intelligence, NATO, and CINCPAC. Somehow the Letters FSM people managed to make some decisions about the future of freedom and peace in Nebraska, and adjourned peacefully at 5 o'clock. In the light of all this it was startling to read in Connie Winkler's Wednesday editorial that "The Campus Police and ROTC officers are to be com mended for keeping their cool." It looked like Alice's Restaurant all over again, with the police breaking out lots of fancy cop equipment and con tingency plans they'd been dying to use. The extent of their panic, indecision, and general loss of cool evinces a degree of paranoia heretofore thought to be the monopoly of the radical left. With the cops and ROTC officers tied up monitoring a meeting to plan a dance, who knows what evil could have been perpetrated elsewhere on campus by the forces of darkness? Miss Winkler goes on to report, correctly, our con clusion that all one has to do to get attention is something unusual. As explained above, the goal of FSM wasn't really publicity, though we are grateful to the Rag for whatever notoriety it can lend. What was most unusual was not so much the fact that the FSM informally gathered in an experimental mood in a cam pus hall, but that the campus police and their friends reacted so extraordinarily. With all due gratitude, it is they, not the FSM, who really deserve publicity. We commend to the University community's curiosity these topics: (1) The campus police seem to have adopted the ad ministrator's prerogative of making up rules as they go You KNOW they were framed! Presidential riot indictment unfair by ARTHUR 1IOPPE I am flying back to Washington to offer my President my full support In his hour of trial. As you may know, a grand jury in San Jose, Calif., has been investigating the riot that broke out at a Republican rally there shortly before the recent, unlamented election. The riot started when Mr. Nixon, ac companied by Governor Ronald Reagan and Senator George Murphy, left the auditorium. According to press reports, Mr. Nixon climbed atop his car and made the peace sign to the demonstrators, remarking to aa aide that this would reully infuriate them. It worked like a charm. Mr. Nixon, Mr. Reagan and Mr.' Murphy got thoroughly stoned and the Republicans, In the closing days of the 'election, made as much political hay out of the incident as they could which, as it turned out, wasn't much. So the grand jury has been considering Indictments. Obviously, there's only one they can logically return. But it isn't fair, the President can count on me when he's Indicted for crossing state lines to incite a riot. Presumably, Mr. Reagan and Mr. Murphy will be charged as accomplices under our loose and vaguely worded conspiracy laws. Thus, I have joined with a dedicated group of justice-minded citizens to form "The Fair Play for Dick, Ron & George Committee." Looking forward to the long ordeal ahead, we are already making placards bearing our stirring slogan: "FREE THE SAN JOSE THREE." We hope to hire the best legal talent available to defend the San Jose Three. If we can't get William Kunstler, we'll get Charles Garry. Money's no object We plan to stage marches, rallies and benefit rock concerts from coast-to-coast. A huge be-in in Central Park should raise thousands from button sales alone. Our buttons read: "Justice for the San Jose Brothers." We're grimly predicting a long and costly trial. Our defense, of course, will be lack of intent. It's the only one we've got. Clearly, Mr. Nixon did willfully cross state lines. Clearly, Mr. Nixon did, in tentionally or unintentionally, incite a riot We can't argue with the facts. But can the prosecution prove Mr. Nixon crossed state lines with the intent to incite a riot? We think not. Is there one shred of evidence that Mr. Nixon told an aide in Washington that fateful day, "I think I'll go out to San Jose and start a riot?" We doubt it Just because Mr. Nixon thought he would profit politically from the riot doesn't prove long-range intent Starting the riot could have been a spur-of-the-moment decision, unplanned, on premeditated. The law Is on our side. 'ow some will say we are trying to extricate Mr. Nixon through a legal loophole. But that's the American way. Remember, it is our cherished American heritage that our President is innocent until proven guilty. So send in your pennies and dimes to the San Jose Three Defense Fund, Support is pouring in from all walks of life. As my radical friend, Abbie (Che) Hayden said on contributing bis two cents worth: "May he get the justice ke deserves." along. Chief Gade's suggestion that one should get permission to hold a meeting appears to reflect a prejudice that there should be regulations to cover every conceivable situation. So also does the Chiefs recent edict that faculty members cannot eat or sleep in their of fices. None of these quaint, old world ideas, of course, has any bais in University regulations, and it is time people stood up to ad hoc legislation on the part of those lacking legislative authority. (2) How effective Is a cam pus police force which is either so bored or so subject to panic as to turn a routine meeting experiment into a three-ring circus? And how safe are equally law-abiding persons if campus police show the same lack of proportion in their judgments about using weapons? (3) What's to be done with the photos and the minutes which the authorities took at our meeting? What kinds of secret files are we now men tioned in? In general, what kind of procedures do the campus cops and cohorts have which may tend to incriminate or limit the freedom of members of the com munity? (4) The cops along with the Rag editorialist lost sight of the fact that it would have been a simple matter to determine the intentions of the FSM in holding their meeting, and then to have ceased their harrassment Would FSM members be allowed to sit in on a campus cop or ROTC officer meeting and similarly disrupt it? (5) Miss Winker suggests, apparently in all seriousness, that "a special merit badge should be awarded to the ROTC officer Who handed out ROTC pamphlets entitled 'How to make a college education a degree better" While he has the legal right to distribute any pamphlet he wishes (unless Chief Gade rules otherwise), it is perhaps worth considering whether the officer has a moral right to promote a system which contributes to disasters like Vietnam. Personally I regard such pamphlets as a moral outrage. In any event, it is the campus p o 1 1 c e, not the FSM, which the average member of the University community is most likely to come in contact with. And I suggest it is not the ran dom romanticism of the FSM, but the humorless, overreac ting, bureaucratic tendencies of the campus cops which merit the most reflection. Stephen Voss THE NEBRASKAN PAGE 5- THE NEBRASKAN THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1970 PAGE 4 'THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1970