Hyde Park hears varied voices
Hyde Park, the traditional
open forum for the University
community's opinion, nearly
broke into a shouting match
Thursday but by the end of the
two-hour session the voices and
emotions of the participants
were quieter.
As usual, a variety of
subjects were touched on
during the afternoon meeting.
In the past, Hyde Park sessions
have often lacked participants
but that was not the case as
speakers showed no hesitation
in taking the microphone to
voice their opinions in ; this
first session of the semester.
By the end of the afternoon
a speaker received no
opposition when he concluded
a discussion of the ways
individuals can change society.
"You can't do anything
unless you're free," he old the
crowd. "We're all traveling
together. You've got to free
yourself. Forget about trying
to make a perfect world; you
won't do it. Just try to make it
better.
"It's time for this world to
be unified. There isn't a white
mankind or a black mankind.
We need a unified mankind to
save this world."
His statements followed a
lengthly discussion of the ways
in which change could be
instigated in America and the
world. It touched on violent
and pacifistic methods with
both ways being defended by
several speakers.
Earlier in the afternoon the
Hyde Park session had been
dominated by raised voices. An
unidentified speaker touched
off the verbal sparks by
challenging the validity of the
Hyde Park forum.
"What good are we doing
here," he asked. "Everybody's
got their own rights. If you're
going to do something, do it.
Don't rap about it."
John K. Hansen had opened
the afternoon with several
statements designed as a
refutation of a letter signed by
Steve Tiwald which appeared
in Tuesday's Daily Nebraskan.
He also took issue with a
statement in Thursday's Daily
Nebraskan which implied that
the Vietnam War is winding
down.
"The war is not winding
down," Hansen said. "We drop
more bombs in villages than
ever. But less American boys
are getting killed so the
government tells the public
that the war is ending."
Elbert Hill challenged
Hansen's motives, however.
Hill suggested that Hansen was
using the Hyde Park forum as a
means to advance his personal
political stature.
A heated discussion,
involving several speakers,
followed. Hill later made some
statements which questioned
the audience's priorities and
which subsequently led to the
quiete concluding mood.
coming
jattractions:
12:30 psn. Nebraska Union Inter
Varsity Christian Fellowship
12:30 p.m. Nebraska Union
Muslim Student As.
1 pjn. Nabraska Union- ASUN
Budget Committee
1 :30 psn. Nabraska Union A. Ph.
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7 pjm. Nabraska Union Movie
"Lest Summer."
7:30 p.m. Nebraska Union
Navigators. 7:30 psn. Nebraska Union Inter
Varsity Christian Fellowship.
8:00 pjn. East Union Go Big
Red Dance.
8:30 p.m. Howel Theatre
Macbeth, 12th end B St.
9 pjn. Nebraska Union Movie
"Lest Summer."
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Peruvian journalist. .
Continued from page I.
agitation of students and
workers," Levano spent four
years in prison (1950-51 and
1953-1956) during the Odrian
dictatorship.
Under this regime, the
"Caretas" was also seized for
15 days. Levano was not
affiliated with it at that time.
Thumbing through an
American magazine as he
talked Levano explained that
his grandfather, a baker,
started the first organized labor
in Peru and his father led the
early twentieth century fight
to obtain an eight-hour day for
Peruvian workers.
Levano is the author of two
books on the Peruvian laborers
and calls Peru's current
military regime "very tough"
on labor.
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"They don't like strikes,"
he said of the regime which
reportedly resorts mainly to
threats and warnings to people
involved in work stoppages
that have been declared illegal.
Two strike leaders in the
sugar industry were jailed, too,
Levano, said.
During the Peruvian visitor's
cross-country trek, he will visit
other universities, '. Disneyland, the
San Diego Zoo, New Orleans'
Bourbon St., a jazz festival and
Monterey, Calif., and
"Faulkner's country" around
Oxford, Miss.
Levano, the author of three
poetry books, will also visit
Lawrence Ferlinghetti in San
Francisco, as one more attempt
at what he called "familiarizing
myself with the U.S." since "I
am becoming more and more
convinced that my magazine
cannot continue to talk about
other countries without really
knowing them."
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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 10. 1971
