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Attitudes
This is the final part of a
four-part series.
by H.J. Cummins
Gay people are the topics of
discussion for poets, Army
recruiters, psychiatrists, the
Bible and potential employers
around Lincoln.
Alan Ginsberg once
complained, "Very few
well-known gays have given
any encouragement to the
movement. So far, the average
gay in the street has been much
more courageous in standing
up for his sexual preferences."
A gay California pastor told
his congregation of his sexual
preference and was met by a
Biblical quote from Leviticus:
"If a man also lieth with
mankind, as he lieth with a
woman, both of them have
committed an abomination;
they shall surely be put to
death. "
A Lincoln priest said gays
are "God's people" so people
who abuse them should be
prepared to "deal with God."
"PEOPLE SHOULDN'T
make an issue of people who
are like that," he said. "They
can't help it."
He said he has never talked
about homosexuality with a
parishioner but he is sure there
are gay people in his
congregation, because "you
can spot these people."
If gay members of his
congregation approached him
seeking to get married, the
Father said he'd "straighten
them out."
"It's against nature," he
said, adding he thought it's
"very sick when they go out
and do that."
HE LAUGHED and said,
"They're asking for it (trouble)
when they attempt things like
trying to get married."
"They can't help
themselves," he said, but he
said he thought the ASUN
Time-Out Conference on
Human Sexuality (which
included a number of gay
Urbom upholds Regents
U.S. District Judge Warren
K. Urbom Thursday upheld the
right of the NU Board of
Regents to fire assistant
political science professor
Stephen L. Rozman.
Rozman's suit against the
Regents asked for reinstatement
to his position and damages of
up to SI 00,000. The Regents'
decision not to rehire the
untenured professor came after
Rozman's involvment in
campus demonstrations after
the May, 1970 U.S. military
incursion into Cambodia.
Urbom ruled that each of the
factors related in the Regents
resolution not to rehire
Rozman was supported by
substantial evidence. He ruled
the Nebraska Constitution
gives the Regents "broad
responsibility" for governing
the University.
He said there is no question
of the Regents' right not to
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differ toward gay
activists) was "a bunch of
booey."
"People only went out of
curiosity," he said, "And I
know because I had somebody
checking down there."
Conferences like that and
newspaper articles like this, he
said, only "make trouble for
people like that."
BRENT BOHLKE, assistant
pastor at an Episcopal Church,
St. Marks on the Campus, said
he knew of no churches that
turn gay people away but he
supposed "some make their
stands so plain gay people just
stay away."
He said he wondered if
people who abide by Leviticus'
statement on homosexuality
also abide by
his contention
that Christians should
not eat
pork.
Strict
i interpretations
Biblical
also lead to
ordering women to keep then
heads covered in church,
Bohlke said, and other
"nonsensical things."
The Lincoln Gay Action
Group occasionally meets in
St. Mark's, an option open to
all campus groups, he said, and
he knows his congregation has
gay members.
"I DONT KNOW if the rest
of the congregation knows
there are gay members," he
said, "and I don't know how
they'd react if they did."
Gays are "people-if they're
gay or straight is of secondary
interest to me,"he said.
"It's like any other thing
where human relationships are
involved-some are good and
rehire Rozman unless they did
so without due process. Urbom
ruled that due process had
been followed.
Urbom explained that
Rozman was "clothing himself
with a procedural function
belonging to the
administrators" by pressing for
an administration statement of
solidarity with the students
during the May disruptions.
"That kind of intermeddling
is not protected by the
Constitution," Urbom stated.
However, Urbom said, "In
no way am I suggesting that a
faculty member must parrot,
on substantive issues, the view
of the administration."
Neither. Rozman nor his
legal counsel, Patrick Healey,
was available for comment on
whether the decision would be
appealed to the Eighth U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals in St.
Louis.
valid and some are exploitive,"
he said.
Psychiatry confronts
homosexuality frequently. Ken
Hubble, a psychiatrist and head
of the Mental Health Clinic at
the University Health Center,
called it a "psychological
disorder."
"HOMOSEXUALITY
develops as a result of the
psychosexual development
going astray," he said, adding
psychologists are "not too
certain really what it is."
"It cannot be cured, but
homosexuals can be helped to
live with it," Hubble said.
He said gays have "a lot of
difficulty conforming to the
do's and don't's of society. It's
against the rules and
regulations and they're
penalized for that."
A homosexual's problems
are "compounded by society,"
Hubbel said, but he said he
considers it "a big problem in
itself."
A PSYCHOLOGIST at the
Lincoln Regional Center said
sexuality homosexual or
heterosexual-is "a learned
behavior. People learn to gain
their sexual gratification in
different ways."
G. Clell France, prgram
director in the Behavioral
Adjustment Center, said he
wouldn't even use the term
"cure" with homosexualtiy
because "to talk about cures
presupposes illness and I don't
look at it as being one."
He said his concern with a
homosexual would be to help
him adjust to a "Midwestern
way of behaving."
"Social systems tend to
scale towards heterosexual
acts," he said, and if local
opinions upset gays he would
"advise them to be discreet in
the way they conduct
themselves sexually."
FRANCE SAID HE would
only try to change the sexual
preferences of a homosexual if
the person had asked him to.
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CSL discusses
student fees
by Carol Strasser
In a preliminary report to
the Council on Student Life,
Thursday, the Committee on
Student Fees suggested that
most of the information in
University publications about
student fees is misleading and
inaccurate.
Peter G. Wirtz, coordinator
of Student Activities and
chairman of the CSL-appointed
committee, suggested that a
definition of student fees and a
complete breakdown of their
distribution be published in
University publications.
The Council will act on
these and other committee
recommendations at its Dec. 2
meeting.
One of the charges of the
committee is to determine who
is accountable for student
fees who allocates and
authorizes payment of student
fees and for what purposes.
One of the questions
discussed at the meeting was
the legitimacy of students
paying for the University's
bonded indebtedness.
Wirtz told the Council that
a student is charged $14.50 per
semester in student fees to pay
off the University's bond
package which falls due in the
year 2001.
New construction such as
the additon to the Nebraska
Union, student health and the
Nebraska Center for
Continuing Education, is all
included in one package, Wirtz
said, and 25 per cent of the
cost of the bonds are paid off
by student fees.
ASUN Pres. Steve Fowler,
who was at the meeting,
questioned whether students
should be asked to pay off a
loan on the Nebraska Center
which is no more accessible to
students than any other group.
Wirtz conceded that the
committee is "in for a heck of
a long study."
In a report to CSL from its
Special issue Tuesday
The eyes of the nation will be on Norman, Okla., Thanksgiving
Day for the national championship battle between the Huskers
and the Sooners. In preparation of this classic game, The Daily
Nebraskan will have a special Husker-Sooner sports special
Tuesday.
Read about the game that Husker coach Bob Devaney and
Sooner boss Chuck Fairbanks call the biggest game of their
careers. iteaa aDoui me coionui rivalry between Nebraska and
Oklahoma. Included will be team rosters and starting lineups for
your use while watching the game via national television.
The Tuesday sports special will be the last issue of The Daily
Nebraskan before Thanksgiving Day.
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sub-committee on student
publications, chairman James
T. Horner said that his
committee will hold interviews
Dec. 1 for the position of East
Campus editor of The Daily
Nebraskan.
The East Campus editor
previously has been appointed
by the executive staff of the
newspaper. Executive positions
on the Nebraskan were filled
after interviews Tuesday before
the Publications Board.
Horner told the Council
that University attorneys had
assured the Board that the
newspaper will be
well-defended in the upcoming
suit over student fees and
"they don't think the paper is
in any danger of losing student
fees."
At the Council's next
meeting, it is expected to
present a committee with a
charge regarding CSL's
investigation into alternate
structures of consumer input
for the University Health
Center.
A three-man committee
with representatives from
students, faculty and
University staff was instructed
by CSL to explore further
representation of consumer
interests to the University
Health Center and to develop a
charge for further action.
CSL chairman Franklin
Eldridge informed the Council
that members to the Board of
Regents committee on coed
visitation have been appointed.
The committee is charged with
forming a proposal for
visitation and to poll students
and parents to determine its
acceptability.
Members of the committee
are Roger Story, president of
the Residence Hall Association;
Debby Loers, CSL member;
Regents Robert Raun and
Edward Schwartzkopf; and
Walter Burning, assistant dean
of faculties.
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