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Goinea up?
As the new school year begins the University of Nebraska
Lincoln seems to be standing at the crossroads of many important
decisions and challenges.
A mood of uncertainty prevails on campus, as the University
begins to adjust to a tight budget, hunts for replacements for top
administrators who have resigned, begins the arduous task of
revising its governing rules and mends its deep divisions with the
University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Last year at this time University officials had hopes of making
UNL the best school in the region. However, Gov. J. J. Exon and
the Legislature have indefinitely postponed that dream with their
budget decisions. This year UNL will operate on a budget that
only permits it to keep even with the other Big Eight schools.
The state has rightfully challenged the University to become
more efficient in an effort to curb the skyrocketing costs of
higher education. Since the outlook for large increases in state aid
is not bright, the school will have to come up with new ways of
improving education while keeping costs down. The task will not
be an easy one.
However, just because there is a taxpayers' revolt does not
mean the state can abandon its1 duty to provide quality higher
education at the University. State officials seem slow to realize
that a number one football team does not make a number one
University.
But the University does not run or money alone. It can not go
far without leadership. UNL is currently looking for a chancellor,
an executive dean of Student A 'airs and a Dean for Student
Development. Undoubtedly, the men who filll these top positions
will have a large impact on the University and students.
The student protests of the last two years and the confusion
that followed sparked the Board of Regents to create a special
intercampus committee to study the governing procedures of all
NU campuses. The committee is now drafting preliminary rules
for academic, student, and administrative policies. The group has
the golden opportunity to clarify the role and rights of the
different members of the University community.
Besides goverance problems, the University system has the task
of healing the deep divisions between UNL and UNO that have
existed since their merger in 1968. It is heartening to see that the
Regents and NU officials are developing programs which will put
the divided campuses in tandem. Increased cooperation will
eliminate duplication, benefiting both students and taypayers.
This is an important year for UNL. Hopefully the school can
start on the path which will lead it to the top of the Big Eight.
The Daily Nebraskan begins its 80th year of publication this
week. This semester we plan to retain many Daily Nebraskan
traditions as well as institute some new changes.
After a semester of publishing five days a week the newspaper
will go back to publishing four days a week, this
semester-Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. We felt
our emphasis should be on quality instead of quantity.
In the past few years The Daily Nebraskan will subscribe to
Newsweek Feature Service. The service, designed especially for
newspapers, provides indepth articles that cover the full spectrum
of news-including politics, international affairs, medicine,
religion, entertainment, sports, and science.
There will also be many changes on the editorial page. We will
run a guest column this semester in which people of different
persuasions will be give a chance to state their opinions at some
length. In addition, the editorial page will have regular student
columnists as well as national commentators.
Providing a liberal point of view of national politics for
another semester will be Tom Braden. Braden's conservative
counterpart this semester will be Jeffrey Hart. Hart, a former
advisor to Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, is currently a
professor at Dartmouth College and a senior editor of the
"National Review". The editorial page will also feature Arthur
Hoppe, political satirist for the San Francisco Chronicle, and
Hugh Haynie, the cartoonist of the Louisville Courier-Journal
with a unique style of drawing.
Although The Daily Nebraskan will carry various nationally
syndicated features, our prime concern will still be to provide
news and editorial comment on campus and local issues.
Besides editorial changes, our business and advertising
operations have been revamped in order to make the newspaper
more efficient.
Starting this semester The Daily Nebraskan will deliver
newspapers to most of the fraternities and sororities. We are also
planning to start recycling the newspaper soon.
The Daily Nebraskan is a student newspaper :upported by
student fees. We are always available and willing to listen to
comments, criticisms, and suggestions concerning the Nebraskan.
Come see us.
Gary Seacrest
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Welcome, boys and
Well freshmen, here you are at college,
that new phase in your life that everyone
always talked about. You've made it thru all
those forms and papers and here you are.
The Lincoln Campus was not always in
the shape you observe it in today. Changes
have been coming with increasing frequency
over the past three years that I have been
here.
The physical appearance of the campus
has changed considerably. Fourteenth
Street, by the Union, was once busy with
traffic and a challenge to cross. The pleasant
malls, with their grass, trees, and flowers
were once ugly piles of dust, brick, and
cement. Two years ago, campus was torn up,
now things are settling down. Hamilton Hall
(which once had a building standing in front
of it) and the new Engineering complex have
changed the appearance of the campus.
There has been a dramatic increase in the
cultural offerings on campus. Several years
ago, a dedicated patron could see every art
display, every cultural exhibit, every play,
and every movie that came to campus. Now
it is difficult, if not impossible, to keep up
with the constant flow of exhibits, plays,
musicals, and Union specials.
The surrounding area of Lincoln is finally
beginning to look more and function like a
University town such as Boulder or
Manhattan. Numerous shops, catering
especially to student tastes, are opening up
with such items as clothes, posters and
records. Bell-bottom jeans and long hair
once identified the "freaks" from everyone
else. However, when the Greeks adopted
bell-bottom blue jeans, and longer hair as
Greek dress, the freaks had to search for
more outlandish garb to set them apart, and
let the world know that they were
"different" (as if the world didn't know
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already).
The political activities following the
Cambodian invasion showed that Lincoln,
although still moderate when compared to
other campuses, is no longer two years
behind the times politically. The percentage
of minority students is steadily increasing
from what it was three years ago, though it
is still unfortunately low.
This year there is a great difference at
Lincoln, and on every other campus
throughout the nation. With the signing of
the 26th Amendment by President Nixon,
the University is now a voting community,
not just a vocal lobby. College students no
longer have the excuse that they must take
to the streets to effect political change.
The 1972 Presidental campaign is coming
up. Nebraska's primary in May is shaping up
to be a major test of Midwest sentiment.
This means that with the dozen or so
candidates coming to Nebraska, the
University will take on further importance as
each one tries to woo students to his
campaign. Groups are already organizing for
Bayh, McGovern, Nixon, and Muskie.
Once you settle down you are going to
have to decide what your college experience
will be. Sure, you are here to get an
education. But constant studying is not the
same as acquiring an education. Part of your
education should be learning how to get
along with people and learning how to
function in society.
The University of Nebraska is a diverse
place. There should be something for
everyone: politics, drama, the arts, religion,
and East Campus activities. If you're not
interested in any existing campus
organization, then organize your own.
Your college experience will be what you
make it.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1971
arthur hoppe
Wilbur Snathe University, August 1,
1984 -This new university, latest jewel
in the diadem of American higher
education, was dedicated in
appropriate ceremonies here today.
The 116-acre campus has been
described as "the ultimate in
functional planning for the modern
university." Its features include:
1 - A 250,000-seat stadium
suitable for football, baseball, track,
field hockey and horse racing.
2 - An 85,000-seat arena for
indoor sports ranging from jai-lai tc
roller derby.
3 - Housing for the university's
student body of 673 athletes and
faculty of 347 coaches, trainers,
publicists and ticket sellers.
4 - A 107 -acre parking lot.
Snathe U. represents the
culmination of a tread first apparent in
the early 1970s.
It was in August of 1971, actually,
that Wilbur Snathe himself, then a
humble asbestos siding salesman,
noticed in the paper that the
University of Michigan had made
$200,000 renting its stadium to a
couple of professional football teams.
In that same month, the story said,
such august universities as California,
Notre Dame, Princeton and Yale
Lowenste'm-dumper of Pres. refuse
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by Thomas M. DeFrank and
Richard T. Stout
Newsweek Feature Service
It was at about this time four years ago that an
unknown New York Quixote named Allard K.
Lowenstein decided to tilt at the most redoubtable
political windmill of the day, a well-known Texan
named Lyndon Johnson. To the surprise and
consternation of many, he managed to crack the
foundation so severely that Johnson eventually
withdrew from the 1968 race.
Now this Quixote is at it again though technically he
possesses no real political clout. He did win a
Congressional seat from Long Island in 1968 but quickly
lost it when his district was redrawn. So he now has no
political base and no money. Yet political pros are
taking him quite seriously, indeed.
Lowenstein's goal is the same as it was four years ago:
the dumping of the President. His main issue is the same,
too: opposition to the war in Vietnam.
But the technique he plans to use to topple the
President has been changed to fit the times. Since the
passage of the 26th Amendment to the Constitution
gave the franchise to 18-to21 -year-olds, Lowenstein has
been trying to mobilize this new constituency of 25
million new voters into a unified political force.
"We want to make it clear that they (the young) can
make a difference within the political system," he said at
the beginning of the drive, and "that there's another way
to do it and that they represent a great potential of
political power."
Typically, Lowenstein's early efforts were greeted
with hoots of derision by regulars in both parties. The
mood on campuses was supposedly one of frustration
and apathy; the war was supposedly a dead issue.
But typically, too, Lowenstein has managed to
confound the experts. At one rally, 4,600 youngsters
were registered. At another, where only 500 student
leaders were expected, 640 showed up for instruction in
how to become registrars, how to influence party
caucuses and how to turn old-line political devices
around to the insurgents' advantage.
While he concedes that he is fighting an uphill battle,
Lowenstein seems convinced that, as he said recently,
"We can reach a 50 per cent turnout in 1972. The key is
issues. If you concentrate on issues the young will vote.
If you go the old politics route you'll produce more
apathy."
Circuses require bread
would also hire their stadiums out to
the pros.
It was then that Snathe had a
stroke of genius. He immediately
contacted Dean Hiram Si wash of
Si wash University, which, like all
American colleges, was in serious
financial trouble.
Snathe laid the newspaper clipping
on Dean Siwash's desk. "Lucky
Michigan," said the Dean, shaking his
head. "But our stadium only holds
48,763. I'm afraid it isn't big enough
for professional football."
"Aha!" said Snathe, holding aloft a
forefinger. "But it's big enough for
dog racing!"
There was, of course, a modest
protest from hidebound old alumni
about using Siwash Stadium as a dog
track. But, as Snathe pointed out, dog
racing was just as legal as professional
football, far less violent and, if
conducted six nights weekly,
productive of far more revenue.
Both Snathe and the University
prospered. In a year there was enough
in the till to expand the stadium's
capacity to 1 50,000.
"Now, we'll rent it to the pros,"
said the Dean, rubbing his hands, "Just
like the other great universities."
"Don't be a sucker," said Snathe.
"We'll field our own pro team."
Again there was some outcry when
it was learned that Siwash was paying
its players from $20,000 to $100,000
a year. But, as Snathe noted, virtually
all colleges had long paid their players
free room, board, tuition and $15 a
month for laundry.
"The reason college football is not
as lucrative as professional football,"
he said, "is that you get what you pay
for. Surely, we shouldn't be
condemned for paying our athletes a
living wage."
The wise investment quickly paid
off when Siwash won the Super Bowl,
netting half a million from the
television rights alone.
Snathe and the Dean eventually had a
falling out over the University's
Library. The Dean knuckled under to
traditionalists and vetoed Snathe's
plan to tear it down in favor of a
massage parlor. It was then that
Snathe decided to build his own
"dream university."
"It is the function of a modern
university," he proudly said at today's
opening ceremonies, "to give the
public what it wants. And that we plan
to do."
The Snathe U. Gladiators then took
on the visiting Lions before a capacity
crowd. The final score was Lions
skwered, 14; Gladiators eaten, 12.
And if Lowenstein succeeds, the main beneficiary to
certain to be the Democratic party. In general, the
young people who are registering are signing up as
Democrats four or five times as often as Republicans. In
one California district, 72 per cent of the
18-21 -year-olds registered as Democrats, 18 per cent as
Republicans and 10 per cent as independents.
The main obstacle to repeat of Lowenstein's 1968
upset is the fact that no Presidential candidate has yet
emerged to capture the allegiance of the young. Though
Lowenstein himself is 42, he does have an amazing
magnetism with the under-30 generation. But he is
realistic enough about his lack of fanancing and party
support not to entertain any Presidential ambitions.
Supporting McCloskey poses party problems: he
remains a Republican, and Lowenstein and most of the
young are Democrats and thus ineligible to give
McCloskey primary help. New York Mayor John
Lindsay, who recently became a Democrat, is one
possibility.
For his part, Lowenstein scoffs at the idea of a new
party. It makes "utterly no sense to talk of that," he
says, "when we're at a point where we are clearly
inheriting the Democratic Party."
Editor: Gary Seecrest. Managing Editor: Laura Wilier. News Editor:
Stava Strattar. Advertising Manager: Barry Pilger. Publications
Committee Chairman: James Homer.
Staff writer: Bill Smitherman, Carol Strasser, Martha Kahm, Bart
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Johnston. Photographers: Bill Ganiel, Gail Folda. Entertainment
editor: Larry Kubert. Literary editors: Alan Boye, Lucy Kerch berger.
East campus writer: Terri Bedient. Artist: Al Chan. Copy editors: Tom
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