Third
rate
University
tfisinif.iw Varner has comDieted his nrst year si
the University of Nebraska, lhe past year nas oeen
trying, not only for students, but perhaps especially
so for administrators.
It seems fair to say that during the past year, Mr.
Varner has shown himself to be a reasonable and
effective voice for the University.
As for the Chancellor's courage, his budget speaks
for itself. His primary concern must surely be to
make this University a center for learning.
Unlike his predescessors, Mr. Varner is not afraid
to tell the legislators what it costs to have a first rate
institution. Judging the reactions of the legislators, it
seems clear that many of them had expected the
Chancellor to make the traditional budgetary request
for a third rate University.
Spending, of course, will continue to be the most
important recurring issue the Chancellor has to deal
with.
But in addition and conjunction with the fiscal
policies of the university, The Chancellor also has to
contend with various interest groups in the university.
Unifying these elements remains an illusion.
The Regents continue to vie for the number one
ranking in the all-university power struggle. The
Administration, as expected, stays two steps behind.
And students are not allowed to participate in the
contest.
So, guess who remains alienated irom the
university? Then consider whose task it is to "bring
us together.
It is the sincere hope of the Daily Nebraskan that
Chancellor Varner has more success this year in
unifying the University than President Nixon has had
in unifying the nation.
Finally the facts
The fact-finding committee investigating the case
of political science professor Stephen Rozman will be
releasing its report to the Board of Regents this week.
This report will be significant for many reasons.
Most importantly, it will be indicative of the political
mood of the university. The report should also be an
accurate measuring tool for determining the extent of
politicization of the university.
And it should be revealing to find out what the
facts really were concerning last May's disturbances.
Hopefully, the Regents and all members of our
community will respect the findings and the
recommendations of the faculty committee.
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clear editor
Dear Editor: Kindly publish
the following at your earliest
and oblige -
To: Head of the Computer
Center.
Dear Head,
I think yours is the lousiest
organization.
1) The computer is down
half the time.
2) Other half time it goes
bananas and gives stupid results.
3) Your analyst is never,
never available just when you
need her help. For God's sake
make her sit at the table
and help students instead of
running 2T,ay all the time.
4) Turn around time of 2
hours is sheerly and
nonsensically absurd.
I may as well use a desk
calculator.
A Frustrated.
The American and the Un - American
by FRANK MANKIEWICZ
and
TOM BRADENS
WASHINGTON-Something
very odd and not very much
like the United States of
America is going on here, and
Americans who go to church or
who practice their religion
seriously in other ways ought
to be paying attention.
What is going on has to do
with two priests who are
serving jail terms for burning
and pouring blood over draft
records. There is no question
that they should be serving jail
tcrms-they deliberately broke
the law in order to call
attention to what one of them,
Fr. Daniel Berrigan, S.J., calls
the fact that "we care more
about burning papers in a draft
office than burning babies in
Vietnam." , . .
They never denied their
off ense; in the ancient
tradition of civil disobedience,
which in this country runs
from the Boston Tea Party to
Henry David Thoreau to
Martin Luther King, they
accepted the penalty. They
understand the Christian
notion of witness, and they
have lived it all their lives-in
the peace movement and
before thai for civil rights and
before that for the belief that
the people of the
underdeveloped world are not
laboratory specimens upon
whom economic experiments
are to be tried, but are brothers
with a brother's claim to bread
and love.
Along with other priests and
two nuns, the Fathers Berrigan
have now been indicted again.
It is alleged they conspired to
blow up some of Washington's
heating systems and to kidnap
President Nixon's national
security adviser, Henry
Kissinger. The indictment
follows a public
announcement . by J. Edgar
Hoover that the priests were
guilty.
Into this situation some
weeks ago stepped a most
remarkable man. Rep. William
Anderson of Tennessee. Before
his election, Anderson was
Capt. William Anderson, USN,
submarine hero of World War II
and skipper of the nuclear
submarine Nautilus, which
Anderson took on the first
voyage under the polar ice cap..
Last year Anderson and a
colleague found a prison in
South Vietnam, paid for by
American dollars and
supervised by American
technicians, where men and
women were crowded into tiny
cells, their legs shackled to an
iron bar a foot above the
ground, their cries for food and
water met by showers of lime.
Anderson's eloquent
plea-carried to the White
House-that the United States
denounce this outrage was met
with the answer that it would
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be improper for us to
intervene.
Then, last month, he spoke
out against Hoover's public
accusation against the
Berrigans, who could not speak
in their own defense. When the
indictment followed, Anderson
said he was pleased the matter
would be settled in court.
By this time he had
come to know the Berrigans
and had come to believe in
their intense dedication to
nonviolence. (A recent letter
from Daniel Berrian to the
Weathermen contains one of
the most articulate and
passionate pleas against
violence the revolutionary
movement has ever produced.)
This led Anderson, last
week, to urge the National
Council of Churches to use its
influence against violence in
behalf of the Berrigans. It
would be a catastrophe, he
warned, if the cause of these
nonviolent men were to be
taken up by violents means.
Anderson's speech to the
churchmen was low-key,
devout and instinct with the
idea that the Berrian
controversy should be settled
by law. He was attacked the
next day by Vice President
Agnew.
''Reprehensible,
"clap-trap," "popping off,"
said Agnew, and accused
Anderson of advocating
nationwide demonstrations and
calling the Berrigans "heroes."
It is possible that the Vice
President was misinformed
though neither the text of the
speech nor any newspaper
account of it lends the faintest
credibility to his accusations.
But what the Vice President is
doing-and he is doing a lot of
it lately-is un-American in the
deepest and truest sense of that
much misused word.. He owes
Rep. Anderson an apology, and
he owes his countrymen a
better example.
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