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Panel debates freedoms Are constitutional freedoms in danger? All members of a University Forum in the World in Revolution Conference Tuesday night agreed that they are, but differed in their approach to a solution. State Sen. John DeCamp of Neleigh proposed that law enforcement officials should spend less time and money on the victimless crime. "If people are scared to walk the streets they might be willing to give away their constitutional rights for mora police protection," he said. "If the police would concentrate more on the violent crimes instead of victimless crimes, people might not feel so scared." Judge Robert L. Clinton of the State Supreme Court commented that these rights will always be in danger and the citizen must also keep in mind that constitutional rights are not unqualified. "Democracy is built on the premise of 'personal I responsibility." He said that rights are assured through a due process of law which requires enforcement by "police power." "Stagnation results from to much police power and chaos results from too little, he said. "Its a question of balance." Louis Cooper, former Lincoln Action Program Director of Human Rights, said that there are few constitutional rights for a black man in a predominantly white society. "What is freedon?" he asked. "No one here has defined it. As a black man I know that I have not experienced it." Pat Heaty, an attorney from the American Civil Liberties Union, suggested that public misunderstanding of contitutional rights causes a lot of the public's dissatisfaction with the courts and the police. ; v - , - -n The following is the World in Revolution Conference schedule as provided to the Daily Nebraskan by the Union program office. A similar schedule printed in the Wednesday Daily Nebraskan was erroneous in two instances. Due to the rapidity with which some scheduled events have been canceled or moved to alternate locations, the accuracy of the schedule cannot be guaranteed. The Daily Nebraskan urges interested persons to call the World in Revolution Conference headquarters at 472-2455 to insure its accuracy. - World In Revolution Conference schedule for Thursday, March 9: 10 a.m. to 12 noon: University , Forum, "The Relationship Between Society and the System of Corrections," Nebraska Union ' Centennial Room. ' . DeOe Ford, ex-prisoner and community organizer Myrta Vidal, feminist and journalist Charles L. Wolfe Jr., warden of the Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex Lee Jett, director of the Federal Youth Center In Englewood, Colo. ' Elizabeth Pittman, Douglas . County fudge State Senator Roland Luedtke 10 a.m. to 12 noon: Rap session with F lory nee Kennedy in 232, Union. 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.: University Forum, "Is There Justice For All?", Union Centennial Room. Floryncc Kennedy, black feminist lawyer Vincert Hallinan, civil rights lawyer .. Ernest Van den Haag, practicing psychoanalyst at New York University. : Barbara Beckman, founder of Radical Lesbians in Chicago 8 p.m. to 12 midnight: A People's Festival, East Campus nion. Jazz: Victor Lewis and Friends Film: The Murder of Fred Hampton. selections from the archives of: THE SOCIETY FOR TE3G PREVENTION OP UNHEALTHY TRENDS (top jpega . mm aid a program' of strange' sub-culture -vectored f ilmworks by severo perez richard turner and bruce williams SNEUON HIEOORIAL ART m LIE RY ARCH: 14 THREE AND SEVEN-THIRTY P.M. . ADMISSION $1.00 AUP pledg execs e reform ASUN Sen. Roy Baldwin, a candidate for the ASUN presidency, has criticisms concerning the effectiveness of the student senate, but plans to improve it if he is elected. Baldwin, a two-year veteran of the senate, claims to have the best qualified people among the 17 members of his All University Party (AUP). The AUP has two of the three ASUN senators seeking re-election for non-executive positions. The 21 -year-old junior chose the president of Cather Hall, Paul Ochsner, for his first vice presidential candidate and the coordinator of Nebraska Free University, Chris Harper, as his second vice presidential candidate. . The next year may be one of the most crucial yet, he said, especially if the Board of Regents decides to take away student fees. Baldwin said the lesson learned from the visitation confrontation is that when students speak with one voice, things get done. "We feel it is up to the senate to coordinate that voice. The senate has to start communicating," he said. The blond, bearded senator said he hopes to establish liaison with the Union Program Council, the Union Board, the Inter-Fraternity Council, the Residence Halls Association and other governing groups. ' Baldwin said Monday that the most important project of his party is to start a . student co-op. "We have to think up projects that will serve all the students," he stated. ' The idea of a student cooperative association ' could be built around a bookstore or the present record store, he said. It could be expanded to include atudent gas station and a clothing store, he added. ; "We will pledge in our platform to work .J oward that end," the senator said. "I and at .east four of our members will make a study this summer and return this fall with a report on the feasibility of such a cooperative." - The AUP is coming out in strong support of. , the proposed . constitution. Baldwin helped formulate the new constitution to be on the spring ballot, after constitutional convention was called by the current senate. The proposed constitution spreads the responsibility around, among 15 students and hopefully will be a step toward more responsibility in student government, Baldwin stated. The most important advantage in the new constitution is changing from a very strong president to a more powerful executive board, he added. Harper believes it will cut down in the rapid turnover in student senators. "I tend to buy the idea of a cooperative government as opposed to a hierarchial government," he said. "I didn't come into this (the senate race) cokl," Ochsner said. I was really involved in the student visitation issue. It was then I saw there were things that can be dona from an executive position. "It seems ridiculous to me, the lengths we had to go to get a few lines changed in the visitation regulations," he stated. "We beat our heads against the wall for five years using increasing amounts of energy to move the little object through," he added. "I did what I felt could be done at the ASUN dormitory level, now I want to take another step to the University level," he added. Harper, who has served on the University curriculum committee, said the main impetus in committee work should be in educational participation. Committee work is a very important function of ASUN, he added. The AUP has come out in support of having alcohol sold on campus, the new constitution, and Baldwin personally supports the student-formed Nebraska Public Interest Research Group in its efforts to find a method of student funding. All three issues wilt be presented to students on the spring ballot. n Hditor nt chief managing editor news editor fad manager coordinator barry pilger im oray bart oecker bill carver Jerri haussler The Daily Nebraskan is written, edited and managed by students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is editorially independent of the University faculty, administration and student body. The Daily Nebraskan is published by the CSL subcommittee on publications Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday throughout the school year, except holidays and vacations. Second class postage paid at Lincoln, Nebraska OOSUtf. Address: The Daily Nebrask.W34 Nebraska UnionLincoln. Nph. fSRnnn. Teleohone IUf9nSB, mi jit) mm anxiously await .. 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