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I friday, february 8, 1974 lincoln, nebraska vol. 97 no. 1 5 olons disagree - Photo by Stewart N el sen State Sen. Terry Carpenter r Council postpones housing action After more than half an hour of discussion on the Differentiated Housing Report, the Council on Student Life (CSL) voted Thursday to defer action on the report until its next meeting. The report, the work of the CSL Housing Policy Committee's ad hoc differentiated housing task force, contains recommendations for establishing different living environments in different UNL residence halls. Those recommendations include: different coed visitation policies at different residence halls so some might have 0, 6, 12, 18, or 24 hours of Visitation,,,, ,f ,n . ., - ' .. , ., ..,. allowing alcohol in residence hails, except for Gather, Pound and Fedde Halls. abolishing the "open door" and sponsorship policies. establishing academic and quiet floors in some dormitories. - ' Eiy Meyer son, CSL member and UNL dean of administration for Student Affairs, amended the motion to approve the report so action would be deferred until next week, - He said he wanted representatives of the UNL Housing Office, the ASUN Senate and the Residence Hall Assoc. (RHA) present so Council members couM ask their opinions of possible problems and hear their views on the report, One problem he noted was that too many students miaht want to five in a certain residence hall. The Council voted tn defer action on the report until members could talk to Housing Office administrators and ASUN and RHA representatives. The Council alo decided to make the first 40 to 80 minutes of it next meeting an open hearing. It will meet next Thursday in the Selleck multipurpose room. Former UNL student called 'best young political organizer' By Lynn Silhaiek The Nebraska Alumni Assoc. has little on file about Eugene Pokorny. Honorary society member and Harvard University graduate student is how the record reads for the 1968 UNL graduate, a Howells, Neb., native. But political campaign writers take up where UNL records leave off. Huntar Thompson, in his book Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail 72, wrote of Pokorny't organization for presidential cand'dirte So. Georga McGovern in the Wisconsin primary tss being "one of the most impressive grassroots political organization in th history of American politics." Pokorny was McGovern's 1972 campaign manager in Wisconsin. The primary's outcome was crucial, according to campaign plans. Pokorny had a volunteer organization in each of Wisconsin's 72 counties by primary time. He also mobilized 10,000 volunteers to tabulate voter preference in the state, according to Theodore White, author of The Making of the President 1972. Thompson quotes other sources as calling Pokorny "the best young political organizer in the history of this country," after McGovern clinched seven of Wisconsin's nine congressional districts in the primary. But Pokorny's involvement in campaigns extends back to the 1960s. "The 60s made people highly politicized . . . because it brought things to a head in two moral issues-race and peace and war," Pokorny said last week in a teleDhone interview. "In the 60s, wc believed activity was a way to influence. . . If we worked through the political system, change could be made," ha said. "You can make a difference in politics if you're v.ifling to give it a few years of your life." Pokorny's involvement began in Nebraska, when he was elected ASUN second vice president in 19G8. During his term, Pokorny became involved with the campus peace movement to protest the Vietnam war. That year, ASUN organised a Vietnam Week with speakers and sessions to inform UNL students on the war. One of the speakers was McGovern. , - See Pokorny, Paga 2 at alcohol hearing By Greg Wees More than 400 students were told Tuesday that if they want the bill permitting the pale and consumption of alcoholic beverages on campus to pass, they are going to have to become more involved. State Sen. Terry Carpenter of Scottsbluff, at the end of the public hearing on LB783, addressed the standing-room-only crowd in the largest hearing room of the capitol. Carpenter, a member of the Miscellaneous Subjects Committee, warned that opponents of LB783 are just beginning to unite against the' measure. 'There should be 10 times as many people as are here now crowding the galleries and halls" if the bill really has solid backing. Carpenter said. Sen. Steve Fowler of Lincoln and Sen. John Cavanaugh of Omaha, sponsors of the bill, predicted the Miscellaneous Subjects Committee would approve the bill at its meeting next week. From there, the bill faces at least three more floor tests in the Legislature. Heading the 22 witnesses who testified Thursday was Sen. Harold Simpson of Lincoln. He told the eight-member committee that allowing alcohol on campus would not create serious problems. The chairman of the ASUN Legislative Liaison Committee, Con Zutavern, said that when the voting age was lowered from 21 to 19, students received all the rights of atfuits. "But our rights have been denied because of University policy," Zutavern said. Carolyn Grice, Residence Hail Association President, blamed the declining dormitory occupancy rate facing dormitories' on the current alcohol ban. Occupancy is down to 85 per cent, the lowest in five years, she said. An amendment exempting private colleges from one provision of , the bill was offered by Bob Ley, Creighton University vice president. The amendment states that the governing bodies of private colleges should be allowed to control the consumption of alcohol. Kris Grady, UNO student body vice-president, said UNO students did not want uncontrolled drinking on their campus. Speaking against the proposal was Sen. Herb Nore. Calling liquor "the worst drug we have today," the Genoa Senator said alcohol was "at the bottom of marital problems and criminal actions." Next, Regent Kermit Hansen said the Board of Regents Saturday voted 5-2 against the proposal because "there would be no direct contribution to the educational process by the presence of alcohol on camnm " 1 I a M m jt r Eugene Pokorny, while a student at UNL,