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Former State Sen. Clifton Batchelder filed Monday morning
with the Secretary of State's office for a seat on the University
of Nebraska Board of Regents.
Batchelder, long a critic of the present regents handling of
the University, said Monday he filed because "the present
board is (not) carrying out its responsibilities to the
taxpayers."
He charged the regents with "not only refusing to face
issues squarely themselves but refusing to provide an
administration that will do so."
Batchelder, who will face incumbent Regent Kermit Hansen
in the May 9 primary election, was an unsuccessful candidate
for the GOP gubernatorial nomination in 1970.
The 62-year-old former state senator noted five examples
where he felt regents and NU administration had failed to act
or had acted incorrectly.
Batchelder charged no disciplinary action had been taken
"when students forcibly took over the armory" in May of
1970.
He also said a controversial booklet on birth control should
not have been distributed on campus.
Saying the 1971 Time-Out Conference on Human Sexuality
was conducted "without authority," Batchelder said, "In the
opinion of many people (it) emphasized the abnormal, was
presented in many instances in coarse and vulgar language and,
in my opinion, was used as a front for the purpose of getting
social recognition of the 'gay society.'"
Batchelder also lashed out at this week's World in
Revolution Conference on Justice in America. Saying some of
the speakers "are known revolutionaries," Batchelder said, "I
do not think that the taxpayers of this state want this kind of
an influence on the campus."
The former state : senator also charged regents with
"capitulation. . . on the subject of dormitory visitation.
"In spite of a skyrocketing budget which has now reached
the vicinity of $48 million per year, we do not have a good
university," Batchelder said Monday.
If elected, Batchelder said he would move to immediately
discontinue acquisition of additional property for the
University because of the recent "downward trend in
enrollment."
Batchelder also said Monday that UNO "has been either
ignored or treated like a poor relation ever since the merger.
"What we have is a Boaid of Regents that defers major
decisions to administration, faculty and even students while it
involves itself in administrative details that should be the
province of the administration," Batchelder said.
When students and faculty "don't have their own way,"
Batchelder said, they "resort to coercion and threats of
boycotts and the administration lets them get away with it."
Committee
submits new
drug policy
A new University drug
policy which proposes a more
lenient attitude toward the use
of drugs was submitted
Tuesday to the Council on
Student Life (CSL).
The policy drafted by CSL's
ad hoc committee on drug
policy would revise current
University regulations which
provide for possible suspension
if a student illegally uses drugs.
Any change in policy must be
approved by the Board of
Regents.
Since the University, as an
agent of the state, must abide
by state and federal drug laws,
the new policy states that
possession, distribution,
manufature and use of drugs
on campus is in violation of
University policy.
However, the proposed
policy prohibits the University
from taking any disciplinary
action if a student:
1) admits to the misuse of
drugs while seeking personal
counseling,
2) seeks hospitalization or
medical attention due to the
misuse of drugs,
3) is convicted in court of
misdemeanor possession of
Cannabis (marijuana), given a
suspended sentence or placed
on probation for drug
possession.
The policy didn't explain
whether the user of marijuana
who doesn't seek
hospitalization or counseling
should be turned over to civil
authorities.
The sense of the committee
was that Student Affairs staff
members shouldn't wart their
time pursuing the cat ial user
of marijuana, according to
Edward Roche, committee
chairman and associate
professor in tit CoEege of
Pharmacy.
The policy was sent back to
the committee to clear up the
relationship with civil
authorities and to determine if
the policy is consistent with
University disciplinary
procedures.
The committee also was
directed to determine if the
policy is acceptable to the
University Student Health
Center.
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