Committee hears favorable testimony on LB 445
The Legislature's Education
Committee heard nothing but
favorable testimony Monday on a bill
which provides for the dismissal of
faculty and expulsion of students who
take part in "disruptive activities," but
postponed a vote on the measure until
Tuesday.
LB 445, sponsored by Sen. C. W.
Holmquist of Oakland, received the
endorsement of such diverse
proponents as Stephen Rozman; Flavel
Wright, attorney for the Board of
Regents; and John Gradwohl of the
University law school. No one spoke
against trie bill.
HOLMQUIST SAID he introduced
the bill because the "Regents and
Administration didn't feel they had
the authority to penalize students and
teachers who occupied buildings or
disrupted University activities."
The bill lists as grounds for
dismissal or expulsion any use of
force, counselingof others to use force,
threat to use force, the seizure of
property or the prevention of
members of the institution from
pursuing their normal course of
activity.
The measure also provides for a
public hearing before the governing
board of the institution for anyone
charged with disruptive activity. All
evidence from the hearing which leads
to the dismissal or expulsion of an
individual must be contained in a
written order of notification.
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ROZMAN SAID he favored the bill
because it provides procedure and due
process which do not now exist at the
University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
"LB 445 would have given me the
procedure I was denied during the
whole period before my contract was
not renewed," Rozman said. "I don't
believe LB 445 would have allowed
the miscarriage of justice which
occurred in my case."
Rozman said he was particularly
pleased with the section providing for
a public hearing before the governing
board. He did not have a public
hearing before the Regents prior to the
termination of his contract. If the bill
is passed and implemented
retroactively, he would have to be
reinstated, Rozman said.
He suggested the term "disruptive"
be better defined in the bill. "For
instance, there is a difference between
occupying a building, as in the case of
the ROTC building last May, and the
seizure of a building," he added.
"During the occupation of that
building anyone was allowed to come
and go and no attempt was made to
stop regularly scheduled classes the
next morning."
SEN. GEORGE SYAS of Omaha
challenged Rozman with several
questions concerning the assistant
professor's activities during the
occupation, and then asked Rozman if
the faculty or the Regents, as specified
by law, should run theUniversity.
"If you want turmoil, then
arbitrary power should be used,"
Rozman answered. "If you want
harmony, then arbitrary power should
not be used by the Regents or anyone
else."
Wright told the committee that
Rozman had not been dismissed; his
contract had simply not been renewed.
Quoting from the faculty bylaws, he
said that certain procedures would
have been followed if Rozman had
been dismissed.
WRIGHT PROPOSED an
amendment to the bill to provide for
the hearings to be conducted by some
other group than the governing body
of the institution.
"The Regents are in no position to
conduct a hearing and furthermore, I
question the desirability of a public
hearing," Wright said. "There are
many things which can be better
worked out in private."
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Gradwohl, a member of the
University's Committee on Academic
Privilege and Tenure, said his
committee and the faculty in general
approve of the bill. Gradwohl pointed
out, however, that Wright's distinction
between dismissal and contract
non-renewal is not legally clear and, in
fact, is currently in litigation.
Because hearings of several other
bills lasted beyond normal time limits,
the committee voted to postpone a vote
until 1 :30 p.m. Tuesday.
Regents cancel
ASUN meeting
on legal advice
The special ASUN meeting
for February 1 6, which was to
have featured several members
of the Board of Regents, has
been cancelled because of
advice of University lawyers.
The University lawyers
issued a letter to the Regents
on Friday warning that public
statements at ASUN would be
a mistake in view of the
pending lawsuit by Steve
Rozman against the Board.
Several Regents had
previously agreed to speak to
the Senate but -withdrew
because of their attorney's
advice.
Since the special meeting
was only scheduled on the
condition that some Regents
would appear, ASUN President
Steve Tiwald announced that
the ASUN Executive
Committee decided to cancel
the meeting.
Tiwald said the Rozman
case would be taken up at the
regular Wednesday meeting of
ASUN.
by CHARLES FOLEY
College Press Service
San Francisco-Marijuana is
now as American as Spiro Ag
new's daughter -or so say exe
cutives of U. S. tobacco firms
who have been covertly eyeing
the underground market i n
"grass," officially valued at
better than a billion dollars a
year.
The real figure, say some
entrepreneurs, is nearer three
times that sum, and now that
the possibilities of legal
manufacture arc being
discussed in board rooms,
bootleg suppliers are organizing
to safeguard their interests.
Long before New Years
Day, when the government
shut down a S250 million
advertising industry by banning
cigarrctle commercials on
television, the tobacco men
had been busy on contingency
planning. One firm is allegedly
tunning a marketing test
scheme in Hawaii. At the start
the big manufacturers would
market their joints at about 25
cents each, well under current
black market prices.
BUSINESS SOURCES
predict the end of the
marijuana ban will follow the
close of the Nixon era. for the
soundly all-American reason
that (he swollen costs of the
"new prohibition" exceed any
good it may do. Fnforcement
costs in California alone are
now running at $32 million a
year and courts are clogged
with untried cases. Already 23
states have eased penalities -at
least for the first offense
possession of marijuanaand
more are expected to follow.
Former U. S. Attorney
John Kaplan, a Stanford
University law professor and an
authority on the subject, said
that marijuana "could and
should" be legalized. He favors
a government monopoly which
would rule out advertising.
Packets of the weed, graded by
strength and heavily taxed,
might be sold in government
licensed shops, lie believes this
open system would discourage
use, particularly by teen-agers.
Revenue would help to step up
control of hard drugs.
BUT THE UNDERGROUND
does not mean to yield its rich,
mean to yield its rich,
quasi-sacred grass market to
the big-money men. "It's the
economic basis of the
counter-culture." says Blair
Newman, a prominent San
Francisco pot advocale. "We
have to keep it out of the
hands of the tobacco tycoons."
Believing legislation will
come "within three years."
Newman said his friends have
formed a "philanthropic."
non-profit organization called
Amphoria. to stake their claim.
More confident still is a San
Francisco consortium of pot
dealers known collectively as
Felix the Cat. "Marijuana is
legal." they say in publicity for
their bold new venturea
packaged, filler-tipped brand
of pot urigarettes; named
Grassmasters.
ONE "MR. FELIX"
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
spokesman for the group told a
radio station interviewer that
320 dealers in the Bay area are
handling his first consignment
of 5,000 cartons. A packet of
18 joints now sells at $7.50,
but he hopes to pass on savings
to the smoker as the business
grows. By early spring they
plan to have an automated
rolling factory in Mexico and
two more, underground in San
Francisco and Berkeley, with
distribution centers from coast
to coast.
Wouldn't the police object?
"Oh sure." Felix says. "But the
government just isn't willing to
push this thing. It's like the last
days of prohibition when beer
trucks drove openly around.
The group hopes to have
some rucks painted with the
Felix symbol soon.
Felix claims to have a bail
fund reserve of $125,000 and
is prepared for two Supreme
Court appeals in the next
couple of years.
"Then well be out in the
clear," a spokesman for the
firm commented.
Play try outs
set Tuesday
Open tryouts for Kenneth
Brown's play "The Brig,"
directed by Jo Hill, wfll be held
in the Nebraska Union
basement Conference Rooms
Tuesday evening.
The play, to be produced in
conjunction with the World in
Revolution Conference and the
Union Program Council, is a
document of life in a military
prison.
There are 1 6 parts for men,
Hill said. No previous acting
experience is necessary.
CSL holds hearings
on discipline code
The Council on Student
Life will hold a public hearing
on the University Discipline
Co.le and Procedures from 2-5
p. m. on Feb. 18 rather than
the Feb. 16 as orginally
reported.
The hearings in the Union
are open to everyone as part of
CSL's effort to revamp campus
disciplinary procedures.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1971
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