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TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1971
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
NO. 8
Scottsbluff-Acting on
recommendations from Chancellor D. B.
Varner, the University of Nebraska Board
of Regents Saturday appointed Dr. C.
Peter Magruth interim head of the
Lincoln campuses and fired Dr. Kirk
Naylor as president of the University of
Nebraska at Omaha.
The regents appointed Dr. John V.
Blackwell, currently dean of the College
of Arts and Sciences at UNO, as
temporary chief succeeding Naylor.
Varner recommended that Naylor step
down from president to professorship and
acknowledge that his action was an
attempt to ease tensions between the
Omaha and Lincoln campuses.
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NU's 1971 Summer Repertory Theatre moves into its final three weeks with productions of "We Bombed in
New Haven," (above), "Macbeth" and "The Man of La Mancha." Plays begin at 8:30 p.m. at Howell Theatre.
New Coalition To Seek Support
For Sen. fttuskie From All Youth
"The Nebraska Youth Coalition for
Muskie," a statewide youth movement to
aid Maine Sen. hdmund Muskie's bid for
the Democratic presidential nomination,
will attempt to attract youth of all ages
and from all social and ethnic groups,
according to the co-chairmen of the
group.
Charles Wagner and Ron Maulsby,
both NU students, explained that the
coalition will be a "broad based appeal to
all ethnic and social groups, whether they
be blue collar workers, vocational school
students or college, university and high
school students."
Wagner explained that the coalition's
membership now numbers about 50 to
75. "We hope to have organizations in 22
or 23 Nebraska communities by Jan. I,"
he added.
NU Professor Named Recipient
of 1971 Leadership Award .
Dr. Gordon Culver, chairman of the
department of business teacher education
at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
has been named recipient of the 1971
Leadership Award presented by the
Mountain-Plains Business Education
Association.
It marked the first time that the award
was presented to the current president of
the Association. Dr. Culver served ' as
president during 1970-71 and is being
succeeded in the post by one of his
former students, Dr. Arnola Bose,
member of the College of Business
Administration at Oklahoma State
University.
Another member of the NU
department of business teacher
education, Dr. Margaret Johnson, was
re-elected executive secretary of the
Association during the annual convention
in San Antonio, Texas in late June.
Dr. Culver received an engraved desk
set from the Association. The Leadership
Award winner is selected on the basis of
leadership in the Mount-Plains Business
Education Association, leadership in
national groups, and contributions as a
teacher, counselor, administrator,
speaker, writer, and researcher. The
selection committee ir. composed of five
of the most recent recipient's of the
award.
A native o' Pawnee, Oklahoma, Dr.
Culver came to NU in 1961 from
Oklahoma State University where he
served as assistant professor and associate
professor of business education. He was a
Regents Demote Naylor, Rename Top Offices
"The reasons for I his attitude of
divisiveness are obviously complex and
undoubtedly largely the result of a lack
of clear understanding before and at the
time of the merger of the municipal
University of Omaha and the University
of Nebraska," Varner said. "In any such
period of major transition, one would
expect problems to arise."
In the interests of th university, he
added, "it is imper live that this
condition be corrected." Since Lincoln
campus president Joseph Soshnik has
resigned effective Sept. I and Dr. Cecil
Wittson, president of the Omaha medical
campus, is scheduled for retirement next
summer, Naylor's removal will present
The organization began campaigning
last Friday with a petition-fund raising
drive throughout Lincoln residential and
business districts. Maulsby explained that
the "People for Muskie" petition drive,
which will collect one dollar per
signature, is meant to show the broad
grass roots support for Muskie's
presidential campaign and to raise funds
for support of the Nebraska Coalition.
The co-chairmen of the group also said
Nebraska's primary election will be
important to the presidential hopes of
Muskie.
"It will be the first time Muskie will be
able to show his support in the Midwest,"
Wagner said. "It will provide an
opportunity for him to come into the
backyard of some of the other candidates
and test his streneth." Maulsby added.
Dr. Gordon Culver
business teacher at Stillwater High
School, Stillwater, Oklahoma from 1949
to 1951. He is active in Delta I',
Epsilon.Phi Delta Kappa and Pi Omega Pi
honoraries, National Business Education
Association, and the Nebraska Education
Association.
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an opportunity lo Iry lo achieve a fresh
beginning" for the merger, Varner said.
Bolh Magra Ill's and Klackwell's
appointments are temporary until search
coinmitles on bolh campuses find
administrators to fill the positions
permanently.
Title Changes
In other action, the regenls adopted a
wide-ranging set of recommendations by
Varner implementing a management
study conducted for NU by a professional
consulting firm.
A significant step was the regents
decision to rename the top administrative
offices of NU's system. As a result of
Maulsby and Wagner explained that
the coalition believes that Sen. Muskie
has the strongest credentials of all
possible candidates for the Democratic
nomination.
"He lhas the strength of character, the
determination and the wisdom to unite
the country and avoid the polarization of
various groups which has been occurring
under President Nixon," they said.
"His position on early withdrawal
from Vietnam, his plan for combating
inflation and his long record of concern
with the environment and pollution are
outstanding reasons for giving him our
support."
Persons interested in obtaining more
information about the coalition should
write Nebraska Youth Coalition for
Muskie, P. O. Box 94811 State House
Station, Lincoln, Nebraska.
Campus
Calendar
TUESDAY, AUGUST 10
Gary Cooper Film Festival
-"Springfield Rifle." 7:00 p.m.. Nebraska
Union.
Repertory Theatre-"Macbeth." 8:30
p.m., Howell Theatre.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1 1
Repertory Theatre-"The Man of La
Mancha." 8:30 p.m. Howell Theatre.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 12
Summer Film Series-'Vetulia." 7:00
p.m., Nebraska Union.
Repertory Theatre-"Macbeth." 8:30
p.m., Howell Theatre.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 13
Repertory Theatre-"We Bombed in
New Haven." 8:30 p.m., Howell Theatre.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 14
Repertory Theatre-"The Man of La
Mancha." 8:30 p.m., Howell Theatre.
MONDAY, AUGUST 16
Final date for oral exams for advanced
degrees.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 17
Repertory Theatre-"Macbeth." 8:30
p.m., Howell Theatre.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18
Final date for candidates for advanced
degrees to deposit theses and file final
report sheets.
Repertory Theatre-"Machelh." 8:30
p.m., Howell Theatre.
Saturday's action, the position now called
"chancellor" will assume the title of
"president" and will remain chief officer
oi' the NU system. His dulies and
responsibilities will not change.
In addition, the chief executive of
each of each NU campus will be
designated as chancellor of that campus
and vice president of the total NU
system.
The motivation behind the title
changes, Varner explained, arose from
UNO resentment of system-wide
administrators working on the UNL
campus with Lincoln campus
administrators. By making the head of
each campus a "chancellor," the board
NOVA
NU Juniors Sought To Participate
In New Program of Service, iducation
The "Nebraska Opportunity for
Volunteer Action" program (NOVA),
characterized as " an attempt to wed
education and community service," is
looking for students, preferably juniors,
to participate in the innovative
educational experiment.
"We will accept applications until
mid-August," said Gene Harding, NOVA
director for the UNL campus, "and plan
to get underway with a one-month
training period beginning August 27."
Harding explained that NOVA is a
federally financed program under
President Nixon's new Action office, a
consolidation of the Peace Corps, VISTA
and other volunteer programs. He added
that the program will allow NU students
to do volunteer community service and
receive academic credit.
Harding said that he is hopeful that
negotiations with Action will lead to a
Operation of Neb. Government
Subject of Unique Study Program
A unique study of Nebraska state
government, with stress on practical
every-day operations, was conducted at
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
during the second summer session.
The Institute on Nebraska
Government, a three-week study program
which ended Aug. 4 and was sponsored
by the departments of political science
and secondary education, utilized state
and local officials as guest speakers and
discussion participants.
The 41 students, who spent 2Vi hours
per day in class, considered Nebraska
political history, political parties, the
Legislature, public services, the executive
offices, budgeting and finance, boards
and commissions and city and county
government.
To present the practical application of
these various elements of Nebraska
government, speakers such as former Gov.
Norbert T. Tiemann; Senators Roland
Luedtke of Lincoln, C. W. Holmquist of
Oakland and Duke Snyder of Omaha;
Secretary of State Allen Beerman; DAS
Director Dr. Gus Lieske; Warden Maurice
Sigler; Regent Edward Schwartzkopf, and
Lincoln Mayor Sam Schwartzkopf were
enlisted.
The institute on state government was
conducted by Dr. Carroll Mckibbin,
associate professor and chairman of the
political science department at NU, and
by Dr. Willis Moreland, professor of
secondary education.
Editor's note: This story is reprinted
from "As long as the Grass Shall Grow,"
a special depth report issued by two
senior classes at the NU School of
Journalism.
By Sylvia Lee
NU Journalism Student
It is 7:30 p.m. and the ballroom of a
downtown Lincoln hotel begins to fill
with people. Around the walls are small,
straight-backed chairs in which people sit
to talk. Children run up and down
red-carpeted stairs to a balcony, poking
Iegs,arms and heads through wrought-iron
railing.
Perhaps 150 Indians are here for a
pow-wow. Most are Omahas, but there
are also Winnebagos, Santee Sioux,
Arapahoes, and Cheyennes. Earlier in the
day, these Nebraska Indians met in this
room to discuss their problems: hunger,
alcoholism, inadequate housing and
unemployment.
But tonight is for sharing old
traditions and new gossip, and the
conference tables are pushed aside to
make room for dancing. In the center of
the room six chairs are placed in a circle
around a large drum.
This is a social occasion for the Indian
community, not a theatrical production
for the white man, although he is
welcome to attend. It embodies many
aspects of the Indian culture: traditional
songs and dances, gift-giving, and respect
for armed forces vsterans-the old
Keeping
hopes to make titles rellect a degree of
autonomy.
Varner said he saw little difference in
what titles are used, but believed that
these changes would help make it clear
that the university is now a system with
three component parts.
Also being changed is the title of the
head of the Board of Regents, now called
the president. He will become chairman
of the board.
Ross NOVA Chief
In other action, the regents named Dr.
G. Robert Ross, currently NU vice
chancellor and corporation secretary for
the board, head of the Nebraska
Opportunity for Volunteer Action
$400,000 grant to finance the program.
"We don't have the money in our
hands now," he explained, "but we do
expect it and we are going ahead with our
plans for initiating the program this fall."
Students from all three campuses are
eligible to participate in NOVA, and NU
estimated that 40-50 each will take part
from UNL and UNO and 20 from the
Medical Center.
The program is essentially aimed at
college juniors who are willing to serve in
community related activities for one year
in return for 30 hours academic credit
and a cash allowance.
"We are primarily looking for juniors,"
Harding said, "because we feel that it
may be easier for juniors, rather than
seniors, to adapt to a totally different
type of academic program. They would
also be more mature than freshman or
In keeping with the purpose of
examining the practical operations of
government, visiting experts included
lobbyists and political party officials as
well as governmental officers.
Sen. Luedtke, one of the participants,
was enthusiastic about the Institute. "1
wish a program such as this could be
taken to all parts of the state so that
Nebraskans could become better
acquainted with the operation of their
state government," he said.
Dr. McKibbin said that he was very
grateful to the governmental officials and
other invited speakers who have taken
part in the program. "Their cooperation
has been tremendous."
McKibbin said that the Institute was
developed as a result of visits that he and
Dr. Moreland had with social studies
teachers throughout the state. "We found
that social studies teachers who were
assigned to teach Nebraska government
courses had very little assistance available.
After surveying the materials, we decided
that the most meaningrul approach would
be to bring together a selected group of
teachers and political science students
and the leaders of various elements of
government."
"We have been very encouraged with
the results of this different type of
approach and plan to continue these
3-week institutes during summer sessions
in the future," he added.
the Indian Way Alive
warriors. This one-night approach to his
problems-adopting enought of the white
man's way to preserve his own.
The "Indian way" is often difficult for
Indians to define-"We live it, we don't
examine it," says Webster Robbins, a
Cherokee who is a graduate assistant and
instructor of education at the Uhiveristy
of Nebraska. It also is difficult for many
non-Indians to understand. Underlying
the Indian way of life is an appreciation
of the harmony of nature, and a strong
sense of belonging to land and people.
The wife of an Omaha tribal leader,
Mrs. Noami Gilpin of Macy, speaks of the
old days: "The Indian people appreciated
nature before the white man came. . .
months were named and weather was told
by the moon. Our people knew God
before the preachers came. He was
Creator and Protector, providing game for
the Indian to live."
The Indian did not feel he had
dominion over the animals, according to
Roger Welsh, a professor of German at
Nebraska Wesleyan University, long a
friend and student of the Omahas.
Nature appreciators
"Hunting was in concert with the
buffalo. He was called grandfather by the
Indians, and they thanked him for giving
food."
Welsh contrasts this with the attitude
of the white hunter, who seems to see
himself in a struggle with nature.
Before the white man came, when the
program (NOVA) effective Aug. 15.
Ross will no longer serve as
corporation secretary, and his title has
been changed to vice president of the NU
system in accordance with the change in
Varner's title.
Other steps taken Saturday to
eliminate the tension between the NU
campuses included creation of several
study committees to define .the role of
regents and administrators in an attempt
to set up a more cohesive administration
of the system.
A study committee was also created to
locate a new facility for the chancellor's
and other system-wide offices. The
location is to be separate from the
Lincoln campus, but still in Lincoln.
sophomores."
At this time, Harding explained,
NOVA has developed about 100 credit
hours from which students can choose
their thirty-hour programs. Most of the
courses offered, he added, are in the
departments of sociology, psychology,
political science, anthropology,
elementary and secondary education and
the College of Home Economics.
"Students who participate in this
program." Harding said, "will attend no
formal on-campus classes and will not be
allowed to take classes outside the
program."
Depending on federal funding,
students will receive subsistence stipends
of about $150 a month and a $600
completion and separation payment.
"This allowance is necessary," Harding
explained, "because students in NOVA
would be unable to hold other jobs."
Harding explained that since the
project was announced 75 volunteer
projects have been developed by Mick
Zangari, NOVA field supervisor.
"All of the requests for student
volunteers came from community
agencies," he said. "We work with the
agencies to develop programs which serve
the needs of the particular groups."
Student volunteers will be working
with Nebraska community groups in such
areas as housing, problems of the elderly,
unemployment, health care, crime and
law enforcement, rural poverty and
minority business development.
"One of the greatest outcomes of this
project." Harding said, "could be that
students who are planning to be teachers,
social workers or psychologists will be
more compassionate, tolerant and
understanding because they have had this
type of experience.
"They will be able to understand the
problems of living in a Black or an Indian
community because of their own
experiences in these communities."
The NOVA staff is encouraging
interested students to file application
forms with the UNL office located in
Room 103 of the Agricultural
Administration Annex on East Campus.
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Great Plains were free, the Indian did
not consider himself owner of the land,
Welsh said: "No one could own the land
any more than he could own the wind."
When the white man offered to purchase
the land, the Indian did not understand,
according to Welsh.
Today, the Indian, left with only his
reservation, has a more possessive
outlook. The rolling hills of the Omaha
reservation in Nebraska's Thurston
County are home to members of the
tribe. It is with great pride that visitors
are shown the sacred land on the bluffs
overlooking the Missouri River.
An even stronger tie binds an Indian to
his reservation-the feeling of kinship
within the tribe. There is rivalry, but
according to Webster Robbins, "Indians
are very close to one another. There is
more trust among them."
The Indian family is important, and it
includes grandparents, aunts, uncles, and
cousins. Aunts and uncles are addressed
as "mother" and "father" in Lakota, the
Sioux language. Among the Omahas it is
common for young couples to live with
the wife's parents, who assume
responsibility for rearing their
grandchildren. Relatives share their
material goods.
This loyalty to and dependence upon
family frequently is disastrous to the
Indian's living conditions. Housing,
already substandard in many cases, is
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