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Maybe, only maybe
After five defeats on the coed visitation issue,
students finally won a partial victory Friday. The Board
of Regents voted to have a student-faculty-administration
committee draft a guest rights proposal,
which will then be subject to a referendum of parents.
President Varner said he was "impressed with the
responsible manner" in which the students have pursued
their efforts to obtain a liberalized coed visitation policy
after several rejections. A majority of the Regents
obviously were also impressed.
It appears that the Regents about-face Friday will
insure a new coed visitation policy. The Regents said
that if a simple majority of the parents agree with the
coed visitation proposal (which would be optional and
would require parental permission for students to
participate in), then the program would be put into
effect. A survey of parental opinion last summer showed
that 56 per cent of the respondents favored the
liberalized student guest right proposal the Regents
ultimately defeated in July.
But there are still roadblocks to adoption of a new
policy.
One possible roadblock could be the method the
University uses to conduct the referendum. It is obvious
this will not be a typical referendum since the
University is going to have to solicit responses from
parents.
Last summer the University obtained parental
opinion on coed visitation through a mail poll.
However, the poll's extremely low percentage of returns
probably produced biased results which did not
adequately show the support for coed visitation. It is
theorized that parents who were against coed visitaion
would have been more likely to return the poll to let
their opinion be known.
The University should find a method of obtaining
parental opinion that does not produce biased results. In
addition, the referendum should not be restricted to
parents of students living in dormitories since Greek
houses and cooperatives also operate under University
housing rules.
Since coed visitation is an emotional issue with many
of the state's citizens, there is bound to be vocal
opposition to any change in the University visitation
policy. Students will have to make sure that the state is
adequately informed about coed visitation or there may
be a controversy similar to the one over the recent
conference on human sexuality.
Students have long contended that their rooms in
campus living units are their homes and their only places
for privacy. The Regents' vote Friday was a boost for
student self-determination and a defeat for the outdated
concept of in loco parentis.
Gary Seacrest
W UflL'cV: "Bon Vova9e. .Pinko!"
Dear editor,
In recent months the people of East Pakistan have
suffered through a tragic chain of events; some of these
were natural disasters, and some were man-made.
Last winter a cyclone swept across the countryside and
its winds and flood waters claimed thousands of lives and
destroyed many thousands of acres of farmland.
The people had no sooner finished counting their dead
and had gotten back to work when they were caught in the
middle of a bloody civil war. At times it seemed as though
this civil war was more than a question of loyalties - a
question of a people's right to existence.
Thousands of people left their homes and they were
pursued by soldiers, cholera and hunger. As many as six
million refugees are established in camps on India'sborder,
while several million more may be wandering the
countryside and the streets of Calcutta. The terror
continues for the people of East Pakistan and 30,000 new
refugees arrive every day from the interior.
Try to imagine a group of people as large as the
population of Chicago or New York living in camps with no
shelter, a minimum of food, and little medicine.
India, which strives to feed all of her own hungry people
and to battle her own floods, is now burdened with the
devastating problems these newcomei have brought with
them.
The United States government is pledged to help, but
even this aid will not be enough. Millions of people need
your help, and if India is faced with this burden alone,
there is a serious danger of war.
Your school can undertake a campaign on behalf of the
refugees. You can begin by organizing a fast, presenting
speakers, collecting funds at a benefit program, and
informing as many others as you can about this tragic
situation.
A massive fund raising drive is underway now.
Won't you help us?
Mark Nelson
Michigan State University
East Pakistan Emergency Refugee Fund
bob russoll
Lack of imagination and the topless joint
The American male is pathetic. Everywhere I look
I see the same phenomenon: the lack of imagination
of the American male. Everywhere.
The typical American male might be sitting in his
dorm room, apartment, or whereever and the primal
physical urge to "make it" with a female might
manifest itself.
Now, if the opportunity to satisfy this appetite is
not available, this American male has but two
choices: the traditional methods preferred by
ministers and people of that type, the pushups and
cold shower routine. Or, the still traditional, but
secretive methods of phantasy (and we all know
where that leads).
But the trouble with the phantasy methods is that
the American male seems to need so much help in
producing adequately stimulating phantasies. His lack
of imagination is very apparent.
Some of the things the American male might use
locally to help him along with his phantasies are skin
flicks, soft porno available in nearly any drugstore.
Playboy magazine or until several months ago, the
topless places in Omaha.
I don't know how I would define a primal or base
eroticism. But none of the above things would seem
to charge me with anything of this type. I would like
to say, though, that I have a rather vivid imagination
and I also like to run around the block and take cold
showers.
I visited one of the topless clubs in Omaha shortly
before this type of entertainment (for lack of a better
word at the moment) was banned by Mayor Leahy
and the City Council as "immoral." If anything it
should have been banned as too boring.
When I entered this establishment, my primal
sexual urges were at a rather low ebb. I didn't exactly
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know how I would react to bare female breasts in a
west Omaha nightclub type of environment.
I made a point to catalog the make up of the
audience. I suppose the audience was two-thirds male,
predominantly aged in the late twenties and early
thirties.
There were a few older folks in there just for the
adventure, I guess, but what really amazed me was
the number of guys (rising young executive types)
who were out on a date (another archaic American
institution) with girls. I could only figure out several
motives: 1) the girl was inhibited, therefore they guy
was curious to see what a real live breast looked like;
2) they went there to look at the audience, like I was;
or 3) some strange reason I can't quite figure out.
The show started out with this woman (who
looked exactly like Mrs. Robinson in "The
Graduate") who was wearing some type of fringed
swimming suit, with top and bottom. She
synchronized her lip movements and actions to a
Rusty Warren record. Rusty Warren is this dirty old
lady who tells one liners. A kind of nasty female Bob
Hope, with a little honky-tonk added for good
measure.
I was fit to be tied with boredom. I took to
ripping up napkins and picking my teeth with a
toothpick.
I sighed with relief (not the kind you are all
thinking of) after that ordeal was over. I nearly blew
all the napkin shreddings off the table when she
returned on stage. This time she had a different
costume on, a bikini bottom and pasties with tassles
on the top. You guessed it, she twirled the tassles in
opposite directions to the rhythm of some KLMS
Top Forty tune.
Next on the lineup was a live dirty old lady, a
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lesser version of Rusty Warren. She played the piano,
sang some bawdy songs, told some one liners. I tried
to summon some type of reaction, but the only thing
I could feel at the time was the irritation of my eyes
by the clouds of cigarette smoke.
And then some dancers. Tney were local girls, I
guess, several looked right off the farm. They would
come out, do a couple numbers with a top on, then
go topless. I had seen REAL LIVE breasts in a public
environment for the first time. My blood pressure
went down even further. Totally unerotic.
The grand finale. The main act was this woman
who was a former Olympic gymnast. She came on
stage to the music strains of various country-western
greats, with a stiff, glowy gold gown on. She appeared
to be rather bulky.
Then she took off one glove. And it was almost
too camp-she threw it to the audience, gradually she
divested herself of all but a glowy gold bottom.What I
then beheld was a topless Amazon, a muscle bound
female gymnast.
Unlike the rest of the performers, her breasts
didn't move. She did some gymnast-type tricks,
handstands, and tricks with a chair.
Finally the absurd spectacle was ever.
I left the place with bloodshot eyes and with no
improvements on my phantasies. All I could then
wonder is why the American male had to resort to
such an absurd meat market.
In the next few weeks I will explore the other
crutches the American male uses to bolster his
fagging imagination. I will visit the corner drugstore
for some soft porno, leaf through a Playboy and
maybe visit the Embassy Theater (sans overcoat).
Next week: "Boobs, Organs and Other Pink Flesh" or
"Agony and Little or No Ecstasy" or "No Popcorn Is
Sold Here."
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1971
Dear editor,
In her guest opinion (The Daily Nebraskan, Oct. 21)
Mary Cannon states that the student fee issue "merits
intelligent debate," and "it most certainly does not deserve
the outrageous personal insults being thrown at the people
with courage to put their names" on the court petition
challenging the use of student fees.
Her hypocrisy and double-standards were well brought
out in her ranting response (The Daily Nebraskan, Nov. 4)
to my column on student fees (The Daily Nebraskan, Oct.
29).
Besides insinuating that I was "more stupid" than she
could give me credit for, she accused me of "playing games
with the student fee issue" for "political expediency." Her
flimsy attempt to shift the highly speculative motives of
others to myself was most amusing.
She further declares that "three-fourths" of my
statements are "flatly false." This is her opinion, fine. My
column was my opinion. It is unfortunate that in opinion
there is no absolute true or false, right or wrong. If there
was it would save us all a lot of trouble since we could
merely ask Miss Cannon which of our opinions are right,
and which are wrong.
Doug Voegler
Dear editor,
Anyone who was observant last week could tell that
some very important campus trends should have been
apparent by Friday. Namely, what per cent of young
eligible voters would actually register, where they would
register and what type of political affilation most of them
would choose.
If last week was any indication, an overwhelming large
proportion of young eligibles will register. As to where they
will register, it is not yet clear.
While a lot of us are not originally from the Lincoln
area, we cannot overlook the fact that Lincoln is going to
be our homes for a certain length of time. We all have had
our own experiences with various local rip-off s, foisted
upon the students by people who look upon the student as
their private domain for unfair profiteering.
This situation will continue until the students are locally
enfranchised and can swing some political clout. Therefore
the student who wishes to exert a direct influence upon his
immediate surroundings would be well advised to register
locally.
There is too much truth to the statement that all
candidates from either party are by far the same. This year
the Republican party is going to be a closed shop. Richard
M. Nixon is going to be their candidate, the party platform
will be his platform, etc.
However, the Democratic party is wide open, presenting
a wide spectrum of political and social thought. If there is
little difference between the two main presidential
contenders in 1972 we have only ourselves to blame.
Voting in general election is only half of
enfranchisement The other half is letting yourselves be
heard on the issues. What is the easiest way to do that? By
voting for the candidates of your choice in the various
party primaries.
Registration as Independent, although a good statement
of individuality is like signing a lease before seeing the
house. You only have a choice between what each party
puts up.
Joe Car berry
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