OQIIU
friday, november 10, 1972
lincoln, nebraska vol. 96, no. 40
Beecher asks regents
for programming rule
In what was considered by many
observers to be a surprise move, ASUN
President Bruce Beecher asked the
Board of Regents at an open hearing
Thursday to amend a section of the
proposed University bylaws.
Beecher asked the board to add a
phrase to the bylaw's section on
campus speakers. The section now
reads: "Students should be allowed to
invite and hear any person of their
own choosing ..."
Beecher's amendment, if accepted
by the board, would require programs
to be balanced. Individual programs
would not need to be balanced, he
said,, but programming on a yearly
basis must.
There is no reference in the original
document requiring balancing the
speakers' points of view.
After the hearing, Beecher said his
amendment was "an attempt to
provide flexibility." He said under the
proposed bylaws, the regents could
stop a program if it was not balanced.
There is no specific provision in the
document for stopping a program, but
Beecher said his action was "based on
precedent."
Beecher and 23 other persons,
including faculty, administrators,
students and private citizens, urged the
regents to make changes the
document.
The board neither accepted nor
rejected any of the suggested bylaw
changes. Any revisions of the proposed
regulations will be made on the
document when the board meet at 2
p.m. Friday in the Nebraska Union.
The hearing on the regulations was
not the verbal free-for-all some had
expected. A business-like atmosphere
prevailed during the three-hour
session, attended by more than 100
persons.
The new bylaws have been over a
year in the making. The original
regulations proposed by the University
Governance Committee have been
altered bv the board since the
committee finished writing the
document late last summer.
Steve Fowler, former ASUN
president and governance committee
member, asked the board to re-instate
language which would insure a student
the right to a hearing when any
disciplinary action is brought against
him.
In their present form, the
regulations allow a hearing only if the
student is expelled or suspended from
the University.
He said the student legal rights
section of the document was originally
based on the Joint Statement of
Student Rights by the American
Association of University Professors
(AAUP) and the National Student
Association (NSA).
The question of academic freedom
was brought up by several who
testified.
According to Richard E. Gilbert,
chairman of the UNL AAUP executive
committee and professor of chemical
engineering, the document does not
adequately protect academic freedom.
If the bylaws are not amended to
protect that freedom, he said, "it will
appear to be saying 'You may search
for the truth if you Hke, but you had
better not make any attempt to talk
about it' "
Gilbert said he is particularly
opposed to the board striking a section
of -the regulations which said faculty
members can't be discriminated
against "because of their enjoyment,
or exercise, of their right of academic
freedom, or their rights as a citizen of
the United States and of the State of
Nebraska."
That section earlier was changed by
the regents. It now says a faculty
member can't be sanctioned or
discriminated against if taking of
sanctions violates U.S. Civil Rights
Acts.
One of the most criticized aspects
of the proposed document was its
statement of the rights of untenured
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Gilbert . . . testifying at Thursday's open hearing.
faculty members. Gilbert, Fowler and'
Wallace Rudolph, president of the
UNL Faculty Senate, all criticized the
document for what was termed its
"wishy-washy stand" on that matter.
The chairman of the Council on
Student Life (CSL), Don Shaneyfeldt,
and student member Deb Loers both
urged the board to include in the
bylaws authorization for
student-administration-faculty
governing boards. Without such an
addition, he said, CSL would be
eliminated.
Sexual activity increasing for UNL students
A majority of single UNL students have had sexual
intercourse, according to results of the Daily
Nebraskan Super Poll.
Fifty-four per cent of the 184 randomly selected
single respondents to the mail poll indicated they
have engaged in sexual intercourse. Eighty-nine per
cent of those said they had had such an experience in
the last year.
The largest number of 240 survey respondents
(married and single), 26 per cent, had their initial
sexual encounter at the age of 18. Nineteen per cent
said they had first engaged in sexual intercourse at
16-years-old or younger.
Thirty seven per cent answered that they had had
only a single sexual partner, but 28 per cent indicated
more than five partners.
Four-fifths of the single senior respondents said
they had engaged in sexual activity. Thirty-nine per
cent of all respondents claimed a single sexual partner
while 27 per cent were at the other extreme-five or
more partners.
Sophomore respondents appeared less
experienced. Fifty-six per cent of the singles had had
sexual intercourse.
Thirty five per cent of all sophomore respondents
had had only one sexual partner. Another 16 per cent
claimed two partners and 22 per cent had more than
five.
Most of the 53 freshmen respondents have not had
their first sexual encounter. Only 32 per cent of the
singles answered that they had engaged in sexual
intercourse. Thirty-nine per cent of all freshmen had
had only one sexual partner.
The 54 per cent total of those singles who had
enaaaed in sexual intercourse is ud sliahtlv from the
results of a similar poll taken in May, 1971. At that
time 51 per cent of the respondents said they had
engaged in sexual intercourse.
Single males are apparently having more sexual
activity than females, however.
Sixty-two per cent of the single male respondents
indicated they had engaged in sexual intercourse.
However, only 44 per cent of the single females
polled gave a similar positive reply.
Sixty-nine per cent of all males answering
affirmatively to the question "Have you ever engaged
in sexual intercourse?" claimed an off-campus room,
apartment or house as their residence. Male dorm
dwellers comprised only 20 per cent of the positive
responses.
The trend for all female respondents was different,
however, with off-campus and on-campus residents
engaging in about the same amount of sexual activity.
Forty-three per cent of the females who had
engaged in sexual intercourse indicated they live
off-campus. But 39 per cent indicated they live in
residence halls or Greek houses.
Seventy-nine per cent of all the respondents living
in a room, apartment or house had engaged in sexual
intercourse. Twenty-three per cent were married.
Forty-six per cent who live with their parents or
relatives had had a sexual experience while only 42
per cent of the total residence hall or, Greek house
respondents had so engaged.
The students indicated by a large margin their
approval of pre-marital sexual intercourse.
Seventy-four per cent gave an okay for both men
and women to have pre-marital sexual intercourse.
However, the attitude split, 43 per cent answering yes
and no, when asked, "Do you think it is permissible
for a person to have sexual intercourse with someone
he or she does not love?"
Only two per cent of the respondents said they
would be bothered enough to prevent marriage if
their intended had previous sexual ii tercourse with
someone else.
Thirty-nine per cent indicated they would be
bothered "some" and 34 per cent said such a
situation would bother them "not at all."
Although only two per cent of the respondents
replied they had engaged in a homosexual
relationship, 36 per cent said they approved of
homosexual acts between two consenting adults.
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