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Solidarity for success
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The Residence Hall Association's move towards
dorm solidarity was a measurable success last night as
they voted unanimously to begin their own use of the
proposed guest rights policy. Despite the fact that the
Regents have not acted formally on the
student-parent survey results the deck is obviously
stacked against the badly needed reform , of dorm
social regulations.
Solidarity is needed at this point. Hopefully all
students will unite to show the entire community the
undying need for the recognition of students as adults
and not as adolescents guarded by the institution and
Board of Regents in the name of parental pleasure.
Factions developing at this point will serve no
constructive purpose. RHA has decided to show their
position with a statement of purpose. Fraternities and
sororities must back it also if RHA's goal is to
prosper.
For five long years students have pursued the goal
of recognition as adults in the name of self
determination. This goal has been continually denied
at the hands of the Regents in the name of
constituents. Now, in addition to possessing data
demonstrating the large number of parents opposed
to the concept of visitation, the Board also has proof
of the much more overwhelming, support of the
liberalized policy by students. Student opinion
should be recognized as the deciding factor here.
Students living in on-campus housing are seeking
the reasonable goal of determining their own social
lives. The quest for personal privacy and intimacy and
the fostering and sustaining of relationships within
one's own place of residence or home is most
reasonable.
Should the Regents again deny students the
opportunity for self expression and social fulfillment
by retaining a policy impossible to administrate from
either side, they could only be asking for trouble.
They would be asking for a furor that this campus
has successfully been able to avoid through the five
years coed visitation has been an issue.
There are virtually no avenues for communication
left in the student-Regent discussion and
consideration of the visitation question. Should the
Regents decide to terminate this final responsible
effort on the part of the University community, they
can only . be seeking a state of depression among
students. There is no telling then just how far students
will go.
It is regrettable that students must now prepare to
pursue courses of action in spite of the Board of
Regents, but it appears to be the only alternative
remaining.
Barry Pilger
Carefree environment
Dear editor:
Your article on Centennial College's project at the Lincoln
Free School confined itself to the most unusual aspect of the
project, thereby in some ways misrepresenting the whole.
The Centennial participants are contracted to three specific
activities in addition to the six hours that they put in at the
Free School each week. One evening each week, readings on
education (we started with Carl Rogers Freedom to Learn),
and writing a reflective journal based on the practical
experience are all a part of the project. Moreover, we expect
some short papers from those who survive the initial cultural
shock.
Thanks for the coverage, but I think the Daily Nebraskah
made the project appear a bit more carefree than it is. For
better or worse, Centennial doesn't offer its students as
unstructured an environment as the Free School offers its four
and five-year olds.
K. Scott Morgan
Centennial Fellow
Facing the facts
Dear editor:
I think it's time for the silent majority of students to say
what's been in their thoughts on coed visitation for a long
time.
Since it appears the regents are very reluctant to take any
action, maybe, it's time they faced a few facts that haven't
really all been put in the open.
. 1) Students now can vote at 18. (How many are going to
re-elect the present regents?)
2) According to the recent poll of parents they were against
such a visitation proposal by 62.2 per cent to 37.3 per cent.
(How many parents live in a dorm?)
3) The students (living on campus) favored such a proposal
by 84.8 per cent (How many of them live in a dorm?)
4) The residence directors know that the present situation is
impossible to enforce and doesn't meet the needs of the
students. (They work for the regents).
5) The student assistants have stated a similar position.
(They, too, work for the regents.)
6) The Residence Hall Association feels the students should
at least decide for themselves.
It should be realized that, in general, students have thus far
been very patient and willing to work through channels and
red tape that make this University "run," but I have a feeling
their patience is about to end, and if something isn't done the
regents and the University are really going to be in for a new
set of problems.
' Dave Seier
Greek support
Dear editor:
Fraternity and sorority members as students at UNL have a
vested self-interest in the visitation issue in that we are all
students facing the same question, "Do we or do we not have
individual rights as human beings?"
Wednesday evening the Inter-Fraternity Council will meet
with students involved in the movement for coed visitation.
Please urge your representatives to attend the meeting and all
Greeks stand behind the dormitory residents in their effort for
coed visitation.
Bill Lock
AnnPedersen
Roger Story
MikeHealey
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Sweet conservatives
Dear editor:
I would like to thank the 2,696 dear, sweet conservative
parents who voted against the floor visitation policy for the
University. I also would like to thank the Omaha World-Herald
for printing their well-timed article concerning pregnancies on
campus (which turned out to be completely unfactual). This
article was printed two days before the visitation poll took
place.
Most- other major college campuses have a somewhat
more liberalized visitation policy. But thanks to concerned
parents and the vote-conscious job-worrying regents, we
remain the sweet wonderful college students that our parents
were 30 years ago. , -
, .' : :: Tony YiEiams
In defense of masturbation
Dear editor:
In support of the regents' and Nebraska parents' position
on coed visitation, I want to point out that there is a certain
validity to their unstated assumption that resisting the urge to
masturbate builds moral character, whereas the urge to
fornicate probably cannot be resisted atalL
Certainly the political consequences of masturbation are
less threatening to conservatives than those attending a
philosophy of free sexual expressioa Indeed, masturbation is
perhaps an ideal paradigm of political apathy.
On the other hand (no pun intended), it seems to me that
the regents stand on dorm segregation is inconsistent with
their well-stated interest in "curing" the dread disease
homosexuality.
Larry Wolfley
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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1972