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4- t - 4 ASUN receives mandate 1 1 8 5 "ii I , - I; i ! i.:: 1 , k 1 r "I; Protests outstanding prof selection Dear editor, This letter is to protest the selection of Stephen L. Rozman as Outstanding Professor." I would like to ask who master-minded this set-up. I would also like to know who the nominating committee was. I thought each living unit was supposed to nominate one professor. My living unit, Burr Hall, didn't have a voice in it we never got to nominate anyone. Also, I know students downtown whose floors didn't vote on nominating anyone they didn't know anything about it. What was the reason two professors from the College of Agriculture, both of whom are outstanding teacher? " and are well liked by the Ag students, were nominated? Was it to split the East Campus vote and insure Rozman's "winning?" Or was it to deny an alternative to City Campus students who couldn't know either Drs. Adams or Colville but yet didn't want to vote for Rozman either? In accepting the award Rozman thanked the students for "this vote of confidence." Out of the pitifully small group of students that did vote (1500) about two-thirds voted against Rozman. Rozman received 530 votes only 530 out of 20,000 students saw fit to vote for him. That's a vote of confidence? How he twists these figures and comes up with the idea of student support is "Tommy" by PAUL BAKER I've listened to what a lot of people have to say about Kosmet Klub's production of the rock opera "Tommy" and two camps seem to have formed-one that loved it and one that thought it was terrible. In a normal production this could be relatively meaningless, but "Tommy" was far from a normal production, and the resulting controversy is to me quite significant. The unusual elements of the production were many and diversified, by themselves not unusual, but in combination quite unique. First of all, the concept of "rock opera" has not been established long enough to have set conventions, therefore the director has a duty to experiment and find conventions. To that add "Tommy" an abstract composition that allows, demands, total production freedom. The libretto is open to many interpretations, and director Mike Dobbins chose an unusual one that he felt to be strong. Interpreting the opera to be an allegory of Christ's life, Dobbins set the show in Renaissance England and allowed a Jesuit college theatre group to perform it, using rock music, fantastic technical effects, and language and dancing that were strictly modern. To siage his interpretation, Dobbins again broke with tradition. Using the rock music, dancing, pantomine. choral chanting and a light PAGE 4 beyond me. I don't want to accuse any certain groups of planning a set-up for political reasons, but the way the whole situation stinks it would seem that is exactly what happened. Francis Olivigni Self-supporting athletic dept. Dear editor. In the Friday edition of the Daily Nebraskan , I was once again appalled to read of the victory of athletics over education at the University of Nebraska. It seems that the supposedly self-supporting athletic department is not quite so self-supporting. "When Governor Exon presented his proposed budget changes and cuts, everyone was up in arms. "How could the Governor do this to the University?" In the end, however, little was done to rescue the University or maintain the education of our young adults. But-when it looked as if Coach Bob Devaney was not going to get his field house, our dedicated lawmakers rushed to his aid by proposing an increase in taxes (specifically, the tax on cigarettes). I have but one final question. Why was some definite action such as this not taken to support continuing education in Nebraska? The University may suffer, but the controversy show, he often split the focus three or four ways. Also, it was not unusual to see a performer drop character to pick up a microphone and sing It is important to further note that the chorus and dancers of this opera were on stage almost continuously throughout the performance and actively involved in it. This brings me to one of the most important points about the production-who it was for. "Tommy" was special, and it was for a special group of people. It was not for critics, dogmatic scholars or intellectual theorists, it was for anyone willing to become involved in the total emotional, the totally sensual experience of the production. Because of its immense diversification, I think that perhaps "'rock opera" is an inadequate description, and that "experience" might be more accurate. If one is to view the play from a conventional point of view, it was terrible, but we are dealing with a fresh art form and really have no criteria for judgement. In the context of emotional experience, Dobbins' interpretation, time distortion and split focus included, created a total effect that was overwhelming. And judging from the instantaneous audience response at the end of the show, I think the majority of opinion is definitely favorable. This indicates, I think, a certain amount of desire for change from the conventional production, and I personally would welcome another show like "Tommy". athletic department lives on! A Sports Fan (but also an Education Fan) Express disapproval Dear editor: We the undersigned wish to register our extreme dissatisfaction with the recent vote of the Legislature to approve the use of the proposed increase in cigarette tax for the construction of a new Field House. TIN ROOF BLUES , the undergraduate literary magazine, goes on sale today on the first floor of Andrews Hall. Price is 25 cents. TIN ROOF BLUES is a handsome magazine. Editor Murray Martz has made of its cover a house facade with a roof of baroque type. Underneath, a pierced, blackframed window shows upon a Nebraska scene: a highway, molded by shadow into a pneumatic footpath leading beyond the frame onto the stark and familiarly beautiful prairie horizon. The highway moves us into the poems, amplified and ephemeral Blues that celebrate moments experienced, caught and transformed by some of Nebraska's better poets. Although there are no contributors' notes (an omission barely justified by the careful design of the magazine), most names in the table of contents are familiar. Don Jones' Medical. Aid was published by the University of Nebraska Press, as was Official Entry "The voice that we call human by LEE T. LEMON Real poems use language in a very special way-with a completeness, an integrity, that is as rich as experience itself and with a precision that experience, often cannot match. The poems in the current issue .' of TIN ROOF BLUES are real poems. Don Jones' "Except," like several of the poems in this issue, builds precisely and quietly. And then, suddenly, with just the proper telling word or phrase, the quietness and the precision explode into a meaningful experience. Jones, for example, spends the first two-thirds of 'Except" describing a cemetery as if it were a school for very young children. There are "angel-dolls and marblesall scattered about," and the mausoleum is "a funnysolemn sort of playhousewith a roof the right height to keep us grown-ups out." Up to here, the poem reads like an exercise in point-of-view and extended metaphor, well done but overly emotional. The ending, however, quickly and perfectly THE DAILY NEBRASKAN In view of the austerity of Exon's budget we feel that such expenditure is not appropriate. It is a matter of priorities. The improvement of Love Library and the Law College, for example, are more pressing needs. Thomas Manig Juan Jimenez Jr. Patrick J. Lynch Trudy Lowery Stephen H. Voss Nelson Potter, Jr. Dana Atkins Blank by Ted Kooser, whose post-card magazine Salt Creek Reader" is widely read. Murray and Susan Martz were winners of the Vreeland Award. Sallie Nixon will receive the John Masefield Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America this Spring. Bill Wallis has had poetry in Colorado Quarterly and The Search, Thomas Kinsella's magazine. Roy Scheele's poems have appeared nationally and his Press presented a handsome chapbook of Nina Duval's poems this past winter. All have published in Prairie Schooner and their poems show the professional polish we would expect from their credits. But the most significient fact about TIN ROOF BLUES is its existences; a carefully conceived and executed, consistently interesting magazine with an unusual approach and a low price-and a 11 the work of an undergraduate editorial staff. Good Blues, Mr. Martz. Hilda Gregory justifies the emotion, and transtorms the exercise into a poem. With a few obvious changes to allow for differences in style and subject matter, the same could be said of the poems by Murray Martz and Bill Wallis. Wallis's poem especially is saved by a perfect ending. He offers four stanzas of ecstatic description of a rose; just about the time the reader has decided that the poem is Hopkins-out-of-Dante, the ecstasy of the description is justified by the creation of a situation that gives substance and truth to the emotion. There are, of course, signs of the amateur in TIN ROOF BLUES -the poem that seems done because the poet thought it time to do a poem," and the phrase that has significance only for the writer. But those signs are surprisingly few in this issue of the BLUES. In "Next Morning " Roy Scheele writes ot "the voice that we call human." Most of the poems that editor Martz has gathered have that voice. Lee T. Lemon yM pgr ham NO CAUSlL OuSTlflGS VllOUZUCfc... 4 1 To the University Community In the Feb. 15 Rag we and several others stated that we had been in the ROTC building on the morning of May S, 1970, and had refused to leave when asked to. We reaffirm that statement. We wrote that letter to point out the inconsistency of the Regents' position on the Rozman matter. Student Affairs has since asked us to sign individual statements which would give them evidence to prosecute us for our action.-We refuse to sign the Student Affairs statement. In refusing to sign we exercise our rights against self-incrimination. Signing would be an admission that our actions in the ROTC bldg. were indeed disruptive, while it is clear that no disruption was intended. Student Affairs stands behind our right not to sign. It seems that the only reason disciplinary action is being attempted now is that the Regents feel it necessary to their court hassle with Stephen Rozman to show that they haven't singled him out. Action against us (if it were indeed necessary) should have been taken much sooner than ten months after the fact, and the late date points to Regents' intervention. The summer Student Tribunal, when asked to take action on the ROTC bldg. matter in July, said that it was too late then. Any action by Student Affairs now, through Student Tribunal, would be in direct , , , J - - i" " m - j. l . k. ,-. a Telephones: editor: 472-2588, news: 2589, advertising: 2590. Second clans postage rates paid at Lincoln, Nebr. Subscription rates are $5 per semester or $8.50 per year. Published Monday through Friday during the school year except during vacation and exam periods. Member of the Intercollegiate Press, National Kducational Averttsing Service, College Press Service. The Daily Nebraska" is a student publication, independent of the University of Nebraska's administration, faculty and student government. Address: The Daily Nebraskan, 34 Nebraska Union, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 66508. disagreement with that bodys earlier decision. Well spare them that inconsistency. Along this line, there were seven faculty members who stated in the Rag that they for various reasons) had Temained or would have remained in the ROTC bldg. on the morning of May 5. The Regents let them know through channels that they had seen the letter, and no further action is comtemplated. We applaud this, but it still isn't consistent with the Regents'" other actions. What are these men thinking about? Steve McElravy Carl Circo Bill Kohlhaase Jackie Barret Marty McMahon Tim A. Sindelar Steven F. Strasser Douglas C. Hintz Ed Anson Paulette Sydow Ray G.Stangel Correction The Daily Nebraskan mistakenly Teported in an advertisment on page 13 of Wednesday's paper that a meeting concerning the Vietnam war would be held Wednesday, April 5. The copy should have read Wednesday, April 7. Anyone who missed the meeting because of this typographical error should call either Ron Kurtenbach, Dan Ladely or Fritz Edelstein. m Over 40,000 Books-All Svbjects Yu Cqh Ccarry nf i?ir Si ' i' " 000 HARD EACiCS oil subjects 19 & up zs Gift Book Discounts " I up to 90 CrfS V V 1000's of Children's 2TV t A selections! i Specially Priced Wearing Apparel f j And Much More J f I Come In And Save! AtYour 12&R j LAST 3 DAYS Nebraska Bookstore's Annual Spring Fre For All In yesterday's ASUN election students went to the polls to prove they are going to make ASUN viable, active and meaningful student government. Finally, students have united behind the need for educational reforms. The large turnout guarantees that ASUN will now be more effective in bringing these and other reforms-that mandate is clear. The election was also very important because it shows to the Regents and the state legislators that many of the ASUN critics are not speaking for the majority of the students, as they so often claim. But above all else, the heavy turnout was important because the students have also given a mandate to the Administration. By participating in the electoral process, students have again expressed their desire to work through peaceful channels. Students have made an indelible commitment to participate in the decision-making. It should be hoped that the students'' expression of faith and commitment will be respected. - $ A. 1 THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1971 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN PAGE 5 THURSDAY. APRILS, 1971