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Allegations that undercover
or plainclothes policemen
recently operated on campus
prompted a Faculty Senate
resolution to establish a fact
finding committee.
At Tuesday's meeting,
David Hibler, assistant
professor of English,
introduced a resolution which
states that the alleged police
scrutiny at public meetings
"should be met with a sense of
apprehension and alarm" not
only by students, but by
faculty and administration as
well.
The resolution will be
considered at the Senate's
March meeting.
The allegations charge that
plainsclothesmen took
photographs and compiled
dossiers of persons attending
Saturday's Board of Regents
meeting and Monday's ASUN
meeting, according to the
resolution. At the ASUN
meeting, President Joseph
Soshnik denied any knowledge
of such police scrutiny.
The ad hoc committee, to
be established under the
jurisdiction of the Senate's
Human Rights Committee,
would determine whether such
agents had functioned on
campus. If so, the resolution
states, the committee would
investigate who was responsible
for their presence, what use is
being made of the gathered
information and what relevant
University policies exist.
In an attempt to discuss the
resolution at Tuesday's
meeting, Hibler asked for a
suspension of the rules to
permit discussion of an item
not on the agenda. The move
failed for lack of a necessary
two-thirds vote.
Hibler then resubmitted the
resolution as new business to
be placed on the March 3
agenda. Applause from about
100 student observers followed
his reading of the resolution.
The Human Rights
Committee already has
received three complaints
regarding the undercover
police, said Paul Olson, the
committee's chairman. The
committee has just begun its
investigation.
Olson added Tuesday that
he had no objections to
Hibler's resolution though he
would consult his committee
to obtain their opiniun.
"The committee has a
tremendous number of things
to do. there aren't that many
people and all of us are busy."
he said. "This matter will take
tremendous consideration."
He thoughtfully concluded,
"I just don't know if we can
get things done quickly."
HRIL urges 'moral leadership'
Freddie flies high
After about an hour's wait the Freddie Hubbard
Quintet arrived to a packed audience in the Nebraska
Union ballroom to give a free jazz concert Tuesday.
Hubbard, who was voted the second best trumpeter
in the 35th Annual Downbeat Reader's Poll,
performed for about two hours.
In an effort to expose
discrimination in many of the
nation's private organizations,
the NU Human Relations
Insight League (HRIL) is
asking prominent Nebraska
political figures to resign their
memberships in the Elks Club.
Included in the list of eight
Nebraskans who received
letters from HRIL are:
Governor J. J. Exon and
Nebraska Supreme Court Chief
Justices Paul White and Harry
Spencer.
University Regents Ed
Schwartzkopf and J. G. Elliot,
Nebraska State Sen. Terry
Carpenter and Jules Burbach,
and Nebraska Equal
Opportunity Director Reid
Devoe were also singled out.
On January 28, 1971, the
HRIL received a letter from
Devoe indicating that he had
privately terminated his
membership from the Elks
Club.
No response from the
remaining seven individuals has
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been received by the League,
according to HRIL President
Linda McNickle. The group is
primarily composed of
University students and
faculty.
In the letter from the
League it was stated, "It is our,
and we are sure your, feeling
that public leadership demands
moral leadership.
"We feel it is clearly
immoral to belong to an
organization which racially
discriminates. Thus we are
asking you as a major public
leader to pubcally resign your
Elks Club membership."
Seeing that the internal
reform of the Elks
discrimination policy has been
unsuccessful, the letter stated,
a public designation of
disapproval with the policy
would have the greatest effect
on Elks and non-Elks alike.
Concluding the letter, the
League pointed out, "We wish
to make clear that this is not
an attempt to make a
scapegoat either of you or the
Elks Club; we feel that racial
discrimination, even in 1971, is
still broadly based in this state
and country."
"Other powerful
organizations have
discriminatory membership
policies and we hope to focus
public attention upon those
organizations, but today you,
by renouncing your
membership to the Elks Club,
can demonstrate your
a b ho ranee of discrimination
based on nothing more
important than the color of a
man's skin."
HRIL believes that persons
who hold these important
offices in the state should be
capable of disassociating
themselves from organizations
which discriminate on the basis
of race.
Local Elks lodges have
indicated that the
discriminatory policy which
exists is presented to them by
the national B.P.O.E.
regulations.
An attempt last summer to
change the qualifications for
membership was defeated at
the national Elks convention.
The proposal for the
resignation of these public
figures from their Elks
memberships if one facet of a
continuation of earlier HRIL
actions.
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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1971
