Defense
fund,
letters
As seems obvious from the headlines of today's
paper, the campus has been flooded With a series of
confusing and controversial issues.
Adding to the initial controversy of the Stephen
Rozman case, there has since been another apparent
firing on a non-tenured faculty member and a few
arrests. There have only been four students arrested.
They were arrested on misdemeanor charges.
It should be hoped that there will be no more
arrests. There is too much important work to be done
at this time. If students are sincerely concerned about
these issues, there are plenty of avenues which should
be pursued.
If professor Rozman is to find justice, he has to go
to the civil courts. Going through the legal process is
expensive and time-consuming. What Rozman needs
is money. If students want to help him in the best
way possible, it is:, not by getting arrested. Many
students are convinced that Rozman was fired
unjustly. The Daily Nebraskan urges students who
feel this way to do all they can - to contact their
relatives and friends in efforts to raise money for the
Rozman defense fund. .
Professor Hubbard will also need money to take
his case to the courts. He has promised he will fight
his likely dismissal all the way. The least students can
do is help him establish a defense fund, and then
solicit contributions. A determined effort in this area
may be the only solution to helping both professors
Rozman and Hubbard.
In addition to discussing these issues with parents
and relatives, the Daily Nebraskan also urges students
to write to members of the Board of Regents asking
them to comply with a resolution passed by ASUN
Wednesday calling for a meeting of the Regents with
students and faculty. The Regents may be surprised
to find out just how deep the discontent on this
campus is. And, also, if they receive letters, maybe
the Regents will respond to the wishes of the student
government.
Write: the Board of Regents, University of
Nebraska, Lincoln, 68508.
These suggestions do not and should not limit the
things you can do to bring about your desired end of
justice.
Another avenue to be pursued is organizing
discussions and speaking engagements in the
University living units. Informing all members of the
community is another area that cannot be neglected.
It would also be helpful to discuss these issues
with your teachers. If every student concerned with
system of justice in the University relays those
concerns with instructors, it will guarantee that when
the faculty meets next week, something will get done.
I
dear editor
Dear Editor,
I am fasting near President
Soshnik's office to point to my
extreme sadness concerning the
Regents' decisions on Michael
Davis and Stephen Rozman. I
am also very sad about
Chancellor Varner's and
President Soshniks's defense of
the Regents' decision. I am
willing to suffer if necessary to
point to the depth of my
convictions and the need for
just change. Michael Davis
ought to be hired. Stephen
Rozman ought to be rehired.
There is a painful irony in
my possibily being expelled
and arrested for imitating
Michael Davis' fast who largely
for the s ame act was not hired
by the Regents.
I sit on my sleeping bag,
with a jar of Tang and some
essays by Camus. I plan to stay
here on this fast for three
complets days. I presume that
my act is not "inappropriate"
or "disruptive" to the normal
functioning of the University
of Nebraska. I don't like doing
this.
Sincerely,
Ron Kurtenbach
Dear editor,
I would like to
communicate for the benefit of
students and faculty several
commitments which President
Soshnik has given me
permission to make public. At
a meeting in his office
theafternoon of February 8,
President Soshnik stated that
he would put his "career on
the line" to protect the rights
of any faculty member who
was demonstrating his beliefs
in a manner which he and the
president's office had worked
out to be non-disruptive.
I believe that this offers a
degree of surety to the
untenured faculty member
who in the present
environment is concerned
about his freedom to express
his beliefs. I must state,
however, that I do not believe
that the president's
commitment sensures adequate
protection.
For instance, I personally
doubt that any University
professor presently has the
ensured freedom to verbally
express his ideas if those ideas
are considered to be highly
radical.
It seems to me obvious that
such surety must be obtained if
this university is to be
considered a place where
people representing all levels of
society can openly and freely
exchange their views. However,
I would like to publicly express
my appreciation to President
Soshnik for the way in which
the Everymen representatives
were treated during their fast
outside his office on Monday
and Tuesday, for President
Soshnik's "unqualified
endorsement" of the PACE
proposal, and for his personal
commitment to protect the
rights of untenured faculty
members.
Finally, I would like to
report that President Soshnik,
Dean of Faculties C. Peter
McGrath, and Assistant Dean
of Faculties Walter Bruning
will meet with Everyman and
minority representatives in
President Soshnik's office
Friday from 9:30 to 11:30
a.m. to closely discuss the
Everyman challenges relating
to minority studies. It is our
and, I am sure, President
Soshnik's expectation that a
continuing series of such
meetings will help given the
cooperation of the state
legislature to ensure the
establishment of a Chicano and
Indian Studies program at this
university and the recruitment
of a whole range of minority
faculty.
Sincerely,
Michael Willey
Instructor, Dept. of English
KI'M MERELY CUTflNe THE
by FRANK MANKIEWICZ
and
TOM BRADEN
WASHINGTON-Even as
U.S. combat forces are being
diverted to Cambodia and
Laos, U.S. civilians in the
pacification program are being
used in South Vietnam to help
re-elect President Nguyen Van
Thieu in this year's "free"
election campaign.
Today's pacification
activities are conducted under
the aegis of C.O.R.D.S., an
acronym standing for Civil
Operations Revolutionary
Development Support. The
name itself is worth noting as
part of the continuing U.S.
effort to confuse and
deceive-if possible-not the
enemy but ourselfes.
C.O.R.D.S. is not "civil" but
designed to support the
military effort; it is not
"revolutionary" but
counter-revolutionary; and it
offers "support" only in the
sense that the brain "supports"
the human body.
Part of C.O.R.D.S. regular
activity in Vietnam is the work
of Provincial Reporting Teams
(P.R.T. ). These are units of
three Vietnamese, operating in
each province, each "advised"
(that is to say, controlled) by
an American "political
reporter"-who is in fact an
employee of the State
Saigon vs.
Department
Their work is to determine
attitudes and
informationlocation and
strength of Viet Cong activity,
and to report which villages are
"secure" (that is to say,
without overt Viet Cong
activity in the daytime). Their
reports are the basis for those
which then come out of Saigon
on the progress of
Vietnamization.
In the last week of each
month the P.R.T.s carry out a
vurvey called P.A.A.S.
(Pacification Attitudes
Analysis Systems) measuring
such things as morale. It is the
closest thing to a public
opinion survey regularly
conducted in the country.
When it is P.A.A.S. time, the
leader of the P.R.T. goes to the
corps headquarters to pick up
the survey questions for the
month.
In November, some P.R.T.
advisers were surprised to find
that in addition to the usual
list there were several questions
relating to the 1971
presidential capaign in
Vietnam, in which President
Thieu will be a candidate for
re-election. The questions
asked what kind of man should
be President and offered a
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