Goodell: frustration causes alienation
by BILL SMITHERMAN
Staff Writer
Former U.S. Senator
Charles E. Goodell mixed a
cood bit of Dolitics into a
speech on "technological
alienation" in the Nebraska
Union Centennial room
Monday.
Activist youth are reacting
to a " thermonuclear
technocracy" they don't
understand and don't seem to
be able to influence, according
to Goodell, who was appointed
to the U.S. Senate in 1968 to
fill the unexpired term of
Robert Kennedy.
Goodell criticized the
actions of students during the
campus disturbances following
the Cambodian incursion as
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Students should realize that a
complicated situation cannot be
changeu in a short time with
simplistic methods, he said.
Goodell's speech keynoted
the World in Revolution
Conference and drew over 600.
THE NEW YORK
Republican said there is great
danger in the cycle of trying to
change the system through
activist means, getting
frustrated when changes aren't
fast, and dropping out. But,
the system is starting to
respond, he said.
The value of science, when
its results may be harmful, also
came under fire from Goodell.
People are questioning the
value of science, he said. For a
long time, he added, scientific
investigationhas been held out
as a way to answer all of man's
questions.
"Now, people are starting to
realize that science is just a
higher form of superstition.
"We are starting to see that
science doesn't have all the
answers."
He said that scientists must
,begin to take moral
responsibility for what they
do. If a scientist can see no
good for mankind from his
work and possible harm, he
must start to question what he
is dnine Goodell continued.
SOCIEY collectively does
not really know what it is
doing, Goodell said.
"We live in a world balanced
on the brink of nuclear
holocaust and still pursue
peace by using more and more
power," he said.
"We find ourselves, the
most powerful and most
affluent nation in the world,
bringing our power to bear
against a nation of 17 million,
people 10,000 miles away, and
unable to win," the former
senator said.
The war in Vietnam shows
the core of the moral problem
facing the United States, he
said. "People here get very
excited when Americans die,
and rightly so, but they don't
seem to mind when
Vietnamese die."
He accused President Nixon
of "de-escalating American
man-power while escalating
American fire power."
"IS THERE really any
difference whether you kill
individuals from 50,000 feet or
50 feet? "Goodell asked. "We
are killing more civilians now
than we were two years ago
when there was more
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Student affairs
starts investigation
by GARY SEACREST
Staff Writer
After a lapse of ten months,
the Student Affairs office is
apparently beginning an
investigation to identify some
of the students who violated a
University regulation by
refusing to leave the Military
and Naval Science Building
during last May's anti-war
protest.
Student Affiars has
informed 12 students, who
reportedly signed a letter
printed in the Daily Nebraskan
stating they refused to leave
the Military and Naval Science
Building, that the University is
investigating to determine "if
disciplinary procedures should
be used in the cases of any or
all the students allegedly
involved."
Ronald D. Gierhan, assistant
in Student Affairs, said he will
personally ask the students to
sign a copy of the letter that
was printed last month in the
Daily Nebraskan. Gierhan told
the students, in personal letters
dated March 19, that if they
sign any statement which
indicates they violated a
University regulation, they will
be subjected to disciplinary
action.
However, it appears that if
the students 'exercise their
rights not to testify against
themselves and refuse to sign
the statement, the University
will have no evidence to take
any disciplinary action.
"We don't feel an article
in the Daily Nebraskan is
sufficient evidence todetermine
if a student violated a rule,"
Gierhan said.
Gierhan said previous
disciplinary action has not
been taken against students
involved in the occupation of
the Military and Naval Science
Building because the Student
Affairs office "had no reliable
w a v of making positive
identification of those students
involved."
Seven faculty members
(four are untenured) also
reportedly signed a similar
letter stating they refused to
leave the building after
President Joseph Soshnik
declared the occupation
disruptive. C. Peter Magrath,
dean of faculties, said Monday
no follow-up action is planned
concerning the faculty letter.
Both letters protested the
Board of Regents' decision not
to rehire Stephen L. Rozman,
assistant professor of political
science, because of his actions
during the occupation of the
building. The letters asked the
Regents why Rozman was
singled out.
If a student does sign a
statement saying he violated a
University rule then his case
will be taken before the
Student Tribunal, according to
Gierhan.
The Spelts Commission,
which investigated last spring's
anti-war protests on the
Lincoln campuses, noted that
actions of some persons during
the occupation appeared to
have violated Nebraska's 1969
Riot Control Law. The law
provides that any one
convicted of refusing to leave a
public building or obstructing a
public function can receive a
maximum penalty of $1,000,
six months in county jail or
both.
Gierhan said Student Affairs
has not "contemplated"
turning any evidence gathered
in the case over to civil
authorities.
Although it has been
estimated that over 100
persons refused to leave the
building after ordered to by
Soshnik, the University has
taken action only against
Rozman.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 23,1971 LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
VOL. 94 NO. 87
Unicameral votes 35-0
'R
ozinan Act' advances
by JIM PEDERSEN
Staff Writer
The Legislature Monday gave unanimous
first round approval to a bill which provides
for the expulsion of any student and the
dismissal of any faculty member for
engaging in disruptive activity.
LB 445, nicknamed the Rozman Act, was
advanced by 35-0 vote with virtually no
debate.
Only the bill's sponsor. Sen. C. W.
Holmquist of Oakland, spoke on the bill
saying it was necessary 10 give the governing
boards of the state institutions the authority
to deal with disruptive acts.
The bill defines disruption as "use of
force or to counsel, recommend, or urge
force or the threat of force or the seizure of
property in order to prevent the faculty,
administrative officers or students from
engaging in their duties or studies."
THE BILL also provides for hearings to
be held in all cases involving dismissal or
expulsion before the Board of Regents or a
committee designated by the Board.
The Legislature adopted all of the
Education Committee's recommended
amendments. Those amendments were
suggested by Flavel Wright representing the
Board of Regents.
The most significant Wright amendment,
added another section to the bill which says
"dismissal shall not include the failure to
renew a probationary appointment of any
faculty member or administrative staff
member."
Under this provision, an untenured
professor such as Stephen L. Rozman would
hearing, even if his
on alleged disruptive
not be accorded a
dismissal was based
acts.
THE UNICAMERAL also gave a narrow
first round approval to LB 446, a bill
prohibiting corporal punishment in both
private and public schools.
The measure, sponsored by Sen. Ernie
Chambers of Omaha, was significantly
amended, however, to give school authorities
the right to inflict corporal punishment if
the consent of the parent is obtained.
The amendment was introduced by Sen.
David Stahmer of Omaha who said he feared
the number of suspensions and expulsions of
students would increase if schools could not
exercise corporal punishment at all.
"Many parents would probably prefer
that the schools discipline their children
than expel them," Stahmer said. "We could
do worse things than give the control over a
child's discipline to the parent."
CHAMBERS OPPOSED the amendment
which he said contradicts the philosophy of
education which forbids "inflicting pain and
suffering on children."
The amendment carried 22-14.
Sen. Herb Nore of Genoa, warned the
Unicameral that if the bill was passed "the
state is headed for trouble," and Sen. Glenn
Goodrich of Omaha labeled "this protecting
of disruptive students seeking publicity" as
nonsense.
Sen. Terry Carpenter of Scottsbluff spoke
in favor of the measure but expressed
concern "not for what is in the bill, but for
what is not in it. I'm afraid some students
might think we have given them free rein to
do anything with no penalty."
The bill advanced on a 25-17-7 vote.
