Hope for the
hitherlands
For a long time Nebraska, like many other American states,
has sought ways of improving the ecomonic, social and cultural
life of rural areas. Now new efforts in this direction are being
made and it appears the University might play an important role
in future schemes of rural development.
Appearing before a hearing of a U.S. Senate subcommittee
concerned with problems of rural America Friday, NU President
0. 6. Varner offered an innovative approach involving state
universities to help revitalize America's hitherlands.
Varner suggested to the subcommittee that Congress establish
and fund a "system of Institutes for Rural Development in the
land-grant universities and charge these institutes with the
responsibility for marshaling the resources of the entire
institution in an effort to bring to realify the concept of rural
development."
The institutes, he added, should employ a corps of business
and industrial specialists to help rural communities "improve
their economic lot" just as agricultural agents help farmers.
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, sjbcommittee chairman, called
Varner's idea the "finest testimony I've ever heard any place on
the subject of rural development," and asked Varner to detail the
plan and forward it to the committee.
Varner's proposal of federally funded institutes would not
only benefit rural areas but would permit state universities the
opportunity to make a major contribution to one of the nation's
major problems at a time of increased public disenchantment
with the schools.
One of the most vital rural needs is a new financial system to
accomplish for non-farm borrowers in ruial areas what the farm
credit system has done for farm borrowers. The establishment
and maintenance of a reasonable level of economic prosperity for
farmers is also a must in any rural developrem scheme.
As Senator Humphrey notid the rural problems are so
important since "there are no answers to urban problems without
answers for rural America."
There are many hopeful signs that a real effort is being made
to tackle the many problems of rural America. Besides the Senate
subcommittee hearings which are being held across the country.
President Nixon has set up a special task force on the subject and
the Coalition for Rural America (a citizens' lobbying iorce for
rural areas) has been recently established.
The University of Nebraska appears eager to become a partner
in this enterprise and both the Federal end state governments
should make use of its resources.
Gary Seacrest
Student input
needed
Only a few years ago student representation on faculty
committees was sparse and coutd have been ignored easily by
both faculty and students. Upon the introduction and subsequent
adoption of the Student in the Academic Community document
in 1958 this situation began changing.
Now each fall there are a large number of appointments to be
made to facultystudent committees by ASUN. Although these
committees are important, they seem to be overlooked regularlv
by students, faculty and administrators.
A large number of these committees have as their sole purpose
the role of advising a University department or administrative
office. But two problems arise in the interpretation of these roles.
First the icsues dealt with by the Committees are usually
brought forward by the faculty or staff person whose office or
department is being advised. However, more often than not, it is
the subjective decision of the staff person that decides which
issues are brought before the committee for its scrutiny and
action. A large number of major and minor issues do not pass
through the hands of the advisory committees but instead just
proceed through the administrative channels just as they would
have before the adyisory committees were created.
Second, the students serving on these committees are often
not the types of persons willing to put an administrator or faculty
member on the line about lack of information on the proceedings
in their offices. A number of administrative decisions have swept
down on the affected students without input from students. The
issues couid have been controversial and therefore greatly
deserved student input
One very valid case in point is the fact that last year's decision
to increase residence hall room and hoard rates was not brought
to the Housing Policy Committee (a standing committee of the
Council on Student Life) for approval, denial, or even comment.
What is needed to solve this unnecessary dilemma is an open
administration not reluctant to bring all budgetary policy, staff
reorganization, and proposed changes to their advisory
committees for sanction or denial. The administrator is almost
solely responsible for these actions but it must be accepted that
the students serving on these committees should keep on top of
information regarding proposed changes so that they are there to
provide 'iput for or against the nature of the change,
Barry Pilger
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Dear Editor,
Freedom can begin "'th the
whiskers on your upper lip.
Does a clerk in a grocery
store have the right to have a
mustache? Does he also have
the right to have a clean shaven
face?
The district manager of
S Jeway says "no" to the first
question and enforces his
decision. An employee at the
Safeway store at 23rd and "O"
was recently required to shave
off his mustache ,
The manager of the Hinky
Dinky store at 26th and "0"
says that neat mustaches are
permissable for his employees.
Where are you going to buy
your groceries if you are
choosing between the Safeway
store at 23rd and "0" or the
Hinky Dinky store at 26th and
"0" walk three blocks for a
person's right to wear a
mustache? Which store would
you enter to buy some fruit
and not to buy shaving
materials because you don't
use them?
Are you interested in the
rightful personal freedoms of
your fellow human beings?
How about we human
beings actively vocalizing
ourselves on this problem?
Someone might picket and
leaflet the Safeway store. A
boycott might be organized.
This problem may seem to
be trivial, but for some its
solution may be substantial
beginning of an understanding
of freedom.
Today, freedom to wear or
not wear a mustache;
tomorrow, an end to the draft
and the war!
Sincerely with a beard,
Ron Kurtenhach
Vv tic f
michelle coyle
Plea for
participation
Quite bluntly this is an open
plea. Since May of 1970
students on this campus have
become publicly involved in
critical questioning of the
values, priorities and
commitments of the
University. More than one year
has passed; little has changed.
A great many of these
questions remain unanswered,
and very few would argue it's
time a few new ones were
asked. I'd like to add some
personal concerns to this
situation.
This University, as an
"institution of high learning"
and because it defines itself as
a learning center, must
recognize and deal with the
problems and needs of the
entire University community.
It seems students usually find
themselves in the position of
ittempting to hold the
University to these
commitments. ASUN can be
xe way of doing this.
Especially now at the
beginning of the school year,
it's important that students
concerned with racism, the
University's responsibility to
the Lincoln low income
community, tenants' rights,
sexism, educational reform,
human rights, to name just a
few issues, get organized and
start doing something about
University priorities and
responsibilities.
A SUN simply cannot be
effective without the support
and involvement of concerned
and committed individuals. If
you are interested in organizing
or learning about issues of thr
type, ASUN needs your
participation and leadership.
ASUN appointments to the
following committees must be
made in the next two weeks:
Campus Surveillance
Parking
Parking Appeals
Student Academic Services
(chairman)
Environmental Task Force
Student Health Board
Student Tribunal
Teaching Council (graduate
student)
Honors Convocation
CSL Standing Committee
on Organizations
Educational Reform
Grading (graduate student)
Library (graduate student)
Publications Board
Intramurals Advisory Board
Intercollegiate Athletics
Curriculum
Legal Rights (chairman)
Help Line Advisory Board
In addition, there is a vacant
ASUN Senate seat from the
Teachers College and one from
she Graduate and Professional
Colleqes.
Interested students
should contact the ASUN
office. Room 334 Nebraska
Union,
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Kingman Brewster: patriot
An academic colleague who is a
Yale graduate writes to me as
follows: "Kingman Brewster has just
escaped from his keepers again! Just
got the Yale alumni publication for
July, and can't believe my eyes. You
have got to dash to your nearest
library and get hold of this, with his
commencement speech and Coffin's
prayer. Don't walk, or even run.
Steal the nearest car with a peace
sticker. Brewster! He makes me feel
like Henry Adams." Adams being,
one understands, the chronicler of
the decay of the Republic.
A year ago Brewster attracted an
eddy of attention with his pensee to
the effect that a Negro could not get a
fair trial in the United States-an
observation which has turned out to
have unexpected merit, it apparently
being difficult at present to convict
anyone of a major crime.
I did not have to steal a car with a
peace sticker, for a friend produced a
copy of the Yale alumni magazine,
and I turned eagerly to Brewster's
baccalaureate discourse. No doubt
savoring the initial sense of paradox,
Brewster sets out to tell the Yale
seniors what's right with America. He
"accentuates the positive," as he puts
it, and says no to all the
hand-wringers.
But what, in his ipinion, is it
that's right about America, and
whence this rush of patriotic feeling?
There's the catch, heh heh-heh , for
Brewster proceeded to produce the
purest litany of chic liberal banalities
I have ever come across, a genuine
collector's item. Here is what is right
about America:
Senator P oxmire triumphed over
the SST. Ralph Nader is crusading
around. John Kerry has "hit the
conscience of a nation with a true
eloquence not recently heard in
Senate committee rooms"-said
eloquence making the point that
young Kerry is willing to work
within the system for the time being
in the hope that the U.S. will adopt
Kerry's foreign policy in place, of
Nixon's.
There are also some fine politicans
around, said Brewster. Who? Why,
"the McCarthys and the
McCloskeys," he announced, with an
even-handed disregard of party
partisanship. And there was an
accolade for Judge Mulvey,. who
behaved with "patience" and
"dignity" as Bobby Seale was
acquitted.
It is true, Brewster conceded, that
we have not quite reached the
promised land. We endure "the
outrageous surveillance of private
citizens by the military and F.B.I."
Philip Berrigan and his friends are in
jail and facing additional serious
charges, but Brewster finds it
possible to "hope for the vindication
of the defendants," his heart being in
the right place on that one. And
though Nixon and Agnew are still in
office, the "politics of hate" and the
"politics of fear" which they practice
"did not seem to work very well in
the elections of 1970."
To cap this ludicrous
performance, the Rev. William
Sloane Coffin, Yale's political
chaplain, delivered an orotund
prayer; "We have learned that there
is a world of difference between
small men who are very clever and
great men who are wise..."- Brewster
and Coffin himself obviously being
put forward as prime examples of the
latter category.
I sometimes wonder what it must
be like to have enjoyed a lifetime of
total, unquestioned moral
superiority.
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