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CSL report recommends
transferable athletic tickets
University athletic tickets will no longer
carry the words "not transferable" if a
report adopted Thursday by the Council on
Student Life (CSL) is implemented next fall.
The report also recommends that
students and faculty continue to receive
special rates on athletic tickets.
In adopting the report, which was written
by an ad hoc committee on UNL athletic
ticket policies, CSL voted to forward it to
Chancellor James Zumberge. The body
requested the report be implemented by fall
1973.
"Students make a long-range
commitment to the University and spend
time and money attending UNL. We don't
feel it's unfair to give them a special price
(on athletic tickets)," Jim Horner, ad hoc
committee chairman, said.
According to Horner, "students buy
tickets because they want to go to the
games.
"Students should be permitted to transfer
athletic tickets if they are not able to attend
a game," he said.
Ticket scalping is a problem, although
transfer of tickets Currently is not
permittted, CSL chairman Don Shaneyfelt
replied.
The report recommends that all ticket
holders be admitted to games, whether or
not they are atudents.
Other recommendations in the report
include allocating 20 per cent of tickets for
away games to students and 50 per cent of
migration game tickets to students.
Only faculty and students will be seated
next fall in the east stadium while, east
stadium season ticket holders will be moved
in the west stadium, according to the report.
The report also recommends that ticket
policies be put into effect for a one-year trial
period.
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State Supreme Court to consider student fee question
The Nebraska Supreme Court has taken under
consideration a case in which four University students
are seeking a court ban on the mandatory collection
of student fees at NU.
Arguments were heard by the state high court only
a day after Federal District Court Judge Warren
Urborn, in a ssparate but similar case, upheld the
collection of the fees and refused to rule them
unconstitutional.
Lawrence Murphy of Lincoln, an attorney for the
four students, told the court Tuesday that some of
the fee money was used for "propaganda" purposes
by ASUN. ;
He urged the high court to overturn a Lancaster
County District Court denial of a motion for a
permanent injunction banning1 collection of the fees.
Murphy- is also the attorney who represented UNL
student Richard Veed in a case which apparently
terminated with a decision Monday. Judge Urbom
Monday filed a memorandum of decision in favor of
the University.
In his memorandum Urbom wrote that the
essential issue of the case is whether "a state
university is consitutionally prohibited from
providing a forum for the expression of political and
personal opinions with financial support of
mandatorily assessed student fees."
In Urbom's judgement, "the answer must be in the
negative."
Veed originally had sought a temporary injunction
against collection of mandatory student fees. That
injunction was denied last summer.
An accompanying request for a permanent
injunction was heard by Urbom last month. Monday's
memorandum was Urbom's finding on that request.
Murphy had cited speakers at UNL conferences
and articles in the Daily Nebraskan, both partially
funded by student fees. He had said he intended to
establish that the fees thus spent were funding a
propaganda effort against U.S. involvement in
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The suit iso attempted to show that fees had been
used to promulgate idealogies to which Veed is
opposed.
However, Urbom's finding was that "there is
nothing to show that the University or any of the
defendants has used those fees in an attempt to
support or advance any particular political or
personal philosophy."
Veed had argued his constitutional rights of free
speech, religion, press and association were violated
because the University required him to support
student fee-financed activities.
"The evidence is to the countrary," according to
Urbom's memorandum. "There is no direction (by
the defendant) as to how the fees must be spent nor
is there any form of editorial censorship exercised
over the newspaper. Indeed, such control by the
University would raise grave constitutional
questions."
Urbom noted further that "The Board of Regents
obviously has embraced an educational philosophy
that the education of students extends beyond that
which takes place in the classroom. . . whether such
activities in fact are educational in nature is for the
Board of Regents to determine; , ."
Concluded Urbom: "Our states, through their
colleges and universities, must retain the freedom and
flexibility to put before their students a broad range
of iedas in a variety of contexts.
"The widom or political desirability of the specific
route chosen is not a question to be determined by
the courts. Arguments on that point must be directed
to a more appropriate forum."
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BEN SIMON'S DOWNTOWN & GATEWA Y
friday, january 19, 1973
daily nebraskan
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