Legislature approves
Law College planning
Heller
speaks
today
Joseph Heller, author of
Catch-22 and crusader against
"contemporary irrationality,"
will speak Thursday in the
Union Ballroom at 3:30, and
later, at 7, will talk with,
students at Schramm Hall.
The veteran of sixty
missions over Italy and France
as a bombardier in World War
II began work on Catch-22 in
1 953, while working as an
advertising writer. Soon after
its completion in 1961, the
novel became a runaway
bestseller, considered by some
to be a "contemporary
classic."
Heller, a Phi Beta Kappa
graduate of New York
University, has an M.A. from
Columbia and has studied at
Oxford University under a
Fulbright scholarship.
- His first Broadway play,
"We Bombed in New Haven."
was described by Newsweek
magazine as "very likely the
most powerful play about
contemporary irrationality an
American has written, with a
natural cathartic jolt that
comes from the genuineness of
Heller as a moral comedian."
Heller has been working on
a second novel, Something
Happened, and also teaches
courses part-time in fiction and
dramatic writing.
A new Law College building
moved a step closer to reality
Wednesday when the
Legislature's Appropriations
Committee recommended that
$50,000 be appropriated for
preliminary planning for the
proposed facility.
The University had not
requested funds for a new Law
College building for the
1471-73 biennium and Gov. J.
J. Lxon did not include funds
for the building in his capital
constriction recomm
endations. ' However, the committee
approved Omaha Sen. David
Stahmer's motion to begin
plans for a proposed $3 million
building on the East Campus
that would accomodate 600
students. University officials
have recommended that the
building be funded by $2
million 0I" state aid with the
remainder being covered by
federal funds and donations.
The committee's decision to
provide $50,000 for the Law
College building boosts the
committee's capital
construction recommendations
for the Lincoln campuses for
fiscal 1971-72 to $455,000.
That figure includes
$ 1 80,000 in planning funds for
a $3.5 million addition to Love
Memorial Library .and $90,000
in planning funds for a new
$1.5 million Home Economics
building.
Capital construction
recommendations for the
University now go to the floor
of the Legislature.
Hearing. . .
Continued from page 1
drafted today."
CLAIMING THAT THE
voice of the high school
student, the 18-year-old about
to be shipped off to Vietnam,
should be heard-were two
student representatives from
Beatrice High School.
Mary Marvin and Jan Norris
described a poll taken in their
school which showed that 70
per cent of the students favor a
fast withdrawal of American
troops. "We're tired of a war
that began before we were
born," Norris said.
Stephen Rozman, NU
professor, spoke of the civilian
casualties and the need to shift
the Legislature's support from
the militsty side to the side of
peace.
FORMER NEBRASKA
GOVERNOR Frank Morrison
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justification, no legal
justificat ion" for the war. He
said the war violates the U.S.
Constitution since it's being
fought without Congressional
sanction and declaration of
war.
War in this nuclear age must
be ended, said Fred Schroeder
of Rural Nebraskans for Peace.
Although the Bible says "there
will always be war, it's not the
first time the Bible has been
proved wrong," he said. There
can't always be war or life on
this world will end," Schroeder
warned.
Hess Dyas, chairman of the
Neb. Democratic Party, said
the party is in favor of a
prompt withdrawal of
American troops from
Vietnam.
SPEAKING FOR THE
Neb. Republican Party, Sen.
Gerald Stromer of Kearney
said the party refrains from
taking any position on the
resolution.
However, referring to the
party's 1970 State Platform, he
said "the party endorses Pres.
Nixon's efforts to foster
peace." Disengagement and
Vietnamization have allowed
American troop strength to be
cut and is the only reasonable
way to end the war, he added.
Carpenter commented near
the end of the afternoon that
the hearing had gone
"excellently". He said "it's
highly commendable that the
young people are able to
control themselves to the point
where they can peaceably and
responsibly say what they want
to say."
CARPENTER INDICATED
he would support getting LR
3 2 back on the legislature
floor, and would vote in favor
of it if it did come up again.
However, at the end of the
hearing. Carpenter drew some
angry response from the
crowd. He said, "If you can
find a way to get them
(American troops) out now,
we're all with you. But the
senators are concerned about
the men who would be left
behind to cover the flank of
withdrawing troops."
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Wednesday's war memorial
service was called "an act of
remembrance-of Kent State,
Jackson State, and Indochina,"
by Larry Doerr of the LIniled
Ministries of Higher Education
in his opening statement.
He asked the constantly
growing group gathered on the
Union Mall and around the
Broyhill Fountain: "We
remember-but to what
purpose and what end do we
remember?
Father John McCaslin of
Omaha said in the opening
nraver: "If there is to be a
genuine peace, I think it has to
Memorial.
Kent State,
Jackson,
Indochina
come from peaceful people."
"True remembering faces
forward, not to the past," he
continued. "We remember
today the dead of Kent State,
Jackson State and Indochina
by an endless passion for
peace. We dare not give in to
disease of enervating apathy of
business as usual." Following
readings of a Jewish mourner's
prayer and the Lord's Prayer,
the group of about 500 had
two minutes of silence-broken
only by the chop-chop-chop of
the police helicopter-in tribute
to the lives lost as a result of
the Indochina War.
Part of the memorial service
was devoted to reading of
poetry by Joe Hill, Jerome
Drakeford of the
Afro-American Collegiate
Society, and Carol Jenkins,
Miss Black Collegiate Nebraska.
March goes. . .peacefully
They marched slowly and peacefully
from the Nebraska Union down 13th street
toward the Capitol, a mainly light-hearted
crowd three lanes thick and a block
long-about 1 ,200 people marching for peace
on a warm spring day.
Lincoln police directed traffic for them,
while photographers and newsmen scurried
around and through them. People stopped
on the sidewalks to watch them pass, and
most of the people were friendly- a truck
driver flashed a peace sign, and a man in his
fifties clapped from the sidewalk.
"Come and join us," some marchers
shouted to him.
"I can't; gotta work; gotta earn my bread
and butter," he answered, and kept on
clapping.
The crowd chanted "peace now" every
once in a while, and some of them tried to
get people on the sidewalks to join in the
march. The people on the sidewalks smiled
back, but most of them stayed where they
were.
A few of the marchers started to shout an
obscene condemnation of President Richard
Nixon and the Indo-China war at one point,
but leaders in the front started up a "stop
the war" chant that drowned them out. For
most of the crowd it was too nice a day to
shout obsenities.
Indian land
Some of us have forgotten what Nebraksa's heritage
is. But the Whistle Stop hasn't.
It's a boutique with the writings, paintings, weavings,
and other artistic reflections of our state's culture. Of
course, these works are by Nebraska artists.
And there are also San Francisco-style gifts and imports
too. . .jewlery, pottery, leather, glassware.
In the old Rock Island depot, next to the City
National Bank, 19th & O.
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THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1971
