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NWU students. . . sit-in at Old Main, the school's administration building,
Nebraska Wesleyan Un.versity (NWU)
students continued to sit-in Thursday at
the school's administration building. Old
Main, in protest of a decision to deny
tenure to English teacher Nancy Wolf.
About 45 NWU students spent
Wednesday night in an upstairs classroom
at Old Main. Dean of Student Affairs
Milton Evans spent much of the night
with the student occupants.
The sit-in continued Thursday, with
occupants numbering between 75 and
100, according to Rich Lombardi, a
sophomore from Boston. Lombardi is an
organizer of the recently formed
Coalition for Faculty Justice which is
sponsoring the protest.
Lombardi said no boycott of classes
was called and all students attended their
classes on Thursday.
About 50 students attended a 4 p.m.
Thursday meeting and decided to extend
the sit-in another day. They requested a
meeting at 10 a.m. Friday with NWU
President Vance Rogers, Provost
Frederick Blumer and English Department
Chairman Harold Hall.
Students at the 4 p.m. meeting seemed
split on the purpose of the sit-in. Some
said they participated to emphasize the
seriousness of student determination to
take part in tenure decisions. Others
indicated the sit-in was a show of
solidarity with Wolf.
Lombardi said the central goal of the
Coalition for Faculty Justice is the
retention of Wolf, but indicated the goal
has broadened to include lobbying for
increased student input into tenure
decisions.
He said Rogers' statement that student
opinion would be considered in the
future indicates NWU "seems to be
moving in that direction.
"But," Lombardi said, "many students
are very distrustful of that statement."
Wolf, wife of UNL English teacher
George Wolf, is teaching in her sixth year
at Wesleyan. Students who say she is an
effective teacher say the non-tenure
decision will have the effect of stifling
educational reform.
Not being granted tenure means Wolf
will be allowed to stay at NWU one more
year, in effect, while looking for another
position.
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Bray
cites
proof for
Christ
story
v.
The historical proof behind the
resurrection of Christ "is at least as strong
as that behind most accepted history,"
John Bray, assistant professor of
history at Wayne State Teachers College,
told a Nebraska Union audience
Thursday.
According to Bray, the historian is
limited to his sources. Unless a source is
contradictory or a better one is found the
historian must believe and utilize the
source he has.
Bray pointed out four historical
sources for the resurrection story: the
New Testament, various Jewish writings,
Roman testimony from the year 110
A.D. and the assertions of Roman
historians.
Since none of these sources refute the
story of the resurrection of Christ and
they all agree on basic points. Bray said
"the story must be believed on
professional grounds".
The events following the death of
Christ, as witnessed by the' apostles and
the more than 500 people who claimed
have seen him, can only be explained L,
the resurrection. Bray added.
Other explanations of the event have
been advanced, but. Bray said, one must
consider the probability of events. The
resurrection is the best explanation,
according to Bray.
The Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship
sponsored Bray's speech.
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Conference
committee
contacts
speakers
The 1972 World In Revolution
Conference Committee moved Thursday
night three days after the freeze on
conference funds was lifted to send
contracts to 13 nationally known
speakers.
Conference chairman Dennis Berkheim
urged .the committee members to
continue contacting potential speakers
from this area. A tentative list of local
speakers was also approved.
Berkheim said key-note speaker Bella
Abzug, U.S. Congresswoman from New
York, has cancelled her agreement to
appear at the conference.
The lateness in contracting was
probably a factor, he said.
The committee members voted to send
contracts to: Tom Clark, former U.S.
Supreme Court Justice; Jerry Rubin,
author of Do It-Sennarios of the
Revolution, Florynce Kennedy, New
York feminist lawyer; De De Ford,
ex-prisoner and friend of George Jackson;
Russell Means, president of the
American Indian Movement; Froben
Lozada, a Chicano University instructor, in
Oakland. Calif.; Bobby Seale and Ericka
Huggins, Black Panthers; M. Stanton
Evans, conservative lawyer and
Indianapolis newpaper editor;
Caroline Bird, feminist author and
supporter of presidential candidate
Edmund Muskie; William Kunstler,
radical lawyer;
Vincent Hallinan, California activist
lawyer since the 1930's; and Ernest van
den Haag, New York psychologist and
occasional contributer to the conservative
National Review.
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Music association
honors Beadell
Robert Beadell, UNL
professor of music, has been
commissioned to compose a
choral-instrumental work to be
presented at the 1973
international convention of the
American Choral Directors
Association.
This is one of several recent
recognitions accorded
Beadell's work in the
field of music composition and
theory.
Wisconsin State University
at Eau Claire has selected
Beadell to serve as guest
composer for its fourth annual
Contemporary Music
Symposium in April.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1972
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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