The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, October 04, 1974, Image 1
i OQIIU friday, October 4, 1974 l;nco!n, nebraska vol. 98 no. 24 v. , i ' IQWADOflM wm fTil TRYi ; Jzjf Haway I uKt-i '' j -J , lj kzzzx G7 X). Union Board ' Function is unclear By Lorl Clcpper When the Campus Bylaws Committee released the proposed UNL bylaws this year, the function and operation of the Nebraska Union Board was mostly overlooked. The Union Board consists of 13 membersthe director of the Union, three faculty members and nine students. The board writes the Union Governing Code, which advises UNL officials on business and administrative affairs, sets up programs and projects for the Union and deals with Union problems. Until last year, said board President Mike McGann, the Union's budget was reviewed by a Union Board committee. Now the board has not , only lo;st money for student programs, but has lost the power to distribute money to groups . formerly under its control, he said. " "The problem is understanding the role of the Union Board In relation to the rest of the campus," said Ken Bader, vice chancellor of students affairs. "The Union Board is not a policy-making group, it is a recommending group. Whatever it decides ' (about the bylaws) still has to go to the regents and perhaps even to the Legislature for final approval." Not to have the board," said Union Director Al Bennett at Wednesday's Union Board meeting, "is possimo information. Bennett told student and faculty volunteers at the meeting that is the decision was left up to him, ho would keep the board as it was. "It has been a long-standing commitment of the Union to have a volunteer group of students to advise," Bennett said. "I would hate to see that put out of existence." McGann said the board hasn't been hurt by the action. "As far as I'm concerned, I'll work as hard on the board and try to get the same things done as last year. It's just that now, we're really not officially recognized," he said. Bader said the bylaws were made less specific than last year because the authority and powers cf . the Union Board, as well as other groups on campus, was understood. "The Union Board is a necessary part of the UIIS. ttSUIUa, i.JiU IVivVSUIill. C IIGfciVJ IU UK? i recognized and have our duties and powers clearly I understood . " J At UNL, University of Iowa i r Housing situations 'opposite ' By Greg Wees Housing directors at tho University of Iowa and UNL are confronting residence hall situations exactly the opposite of each other. The University of Iowa faces a student housing shortage so critical that 100 students were offered rooms to rent In a nearby state tuberculosis hospital. Ted Rehder, University of Iowa housing director, said as many double rooms as possible were converted Into triple occupancy rooms to ease the shortage. Other measures taken, Rehder said, include assigning three or four students to live in a floor lounge converted Into living quarters, with the addition of chests, beds and desks. The university's housing capacity Increased to 5,252 after these and other measures went into effect, - 89 percent occupancy In contrast, figures released last Friday by the UNL Housing Office show that campus residence halls are 89 per cent occupied. That, means 4,512 UNL students are living In dormitories with a total capacity of 5,133, according to Housing Director Richard Armstrong. . The occupancy rate for this year Is down by five per cent from 1973, Armstrong said. The reason for the decline, he said, was the increase In single room contracts from 243 in 1S73. to-323 In 1974. When single room contracts are signed, available occupancy space is reduced by one-half , .-. r ; UNL Is trailing the response of other Institutions", most of which do not have adequate space to meet studsni housing needs, Armstrong said. ' "It's a phenomena that's har : to' explain," he said. 5- 5 ' Mere content However, he observed that WlL1 students living in residence halls "seem' to be more content" since the relaxation, of residence hall rules governing the open uoor poncy ana visitation rue:, . ; Last year, rules required that doc open during coed visits, and oni; hours of visitation was allowed day, if floor sponsors could be foun ; University of Iowa officials several reasons exist for the cu . housing squeeze there. : . .William Stanh; se, vice presider administrative services at the Un.'vc of Iowa, said many students there beginning to realize that residence I are "the best buy in town" and cheapest way to cops with inflation Stanhouse said the downtown I City urban renewal project L eliminated many of the older, chr apartments where students had i,. New high-rise apartments being j near the campus are usually u. expensive thart the old1 ones university bousing, hesal'du f :. . See Housing, j. : 8)3 12 h ;V m U :;t r,ro '!s' it By John Kelkowskl Dick Gregory, well-known black entertainer and social activist, an nounced at an antiwar rally April 24, 1971, that he would ''consume only liquids until the war In Vietnam has ended." . , . ;. , :x:t- Gregory continued his fast after the Vietnam ceasefire and gave notice that he would continue. to fast until all hostilities In Southeast Asia were over. As the first speaker on the Nebraska Union Talks and Topics program, . Gregory will speak at 7 p.m. Sunday in ....the Nebraska Unlpn'."7, . ; , ;;; . . ''. I Born In St, Louis' - - '.'..' -: : He was born In the black ghetto of St. Louis, Mo. Ha came out of the ghetto to become on of the nation's top comedians at a time when black comedians received bookings only In black clubs and theaters, according to Talks and Topics spokesmen. ' , In 1231, Gregory was:' 'called.. as. '-.a:'.1 last-minute replacement at 'the Chlcagd- Playboy., club,' .where he was '.an--, Immediate sensation. He began to rianh Matt a4 mmk A m.t m l m I i AMdd J ' many of the top clubs around the nation. After losing the election, Cigcry's supporters inaugurated him Prc.:!''c.it cf the United States in Exiie. - In 1970, Gregory began a 71-day fr,st to dramatize the drug, problem in America. He protested tho "govornrrrr.t practice of punishing the victims, the drug users, rather than the jczl criminals, the pushers, and the smugglers." . . "I will never be able to understand how a nine-year-old kid always seems to be able to find the heroin man and the FBI can't," he said. " ...'":. 1 I - J "There going on Is a great social revolution in Amenca, sasa urcgory. 'The 'wonderful thing about this revolution is that it 13 not black against white, it is simpiy right against wrong." Gregory added that the number on problem In America is not air or water pollution but moral pollution. ' The same moral pollution that keeps the smoke in the &!r also keeps the Indian on the reservation," according to Gregory. : In 1967, Grcpcry ran es a writs-Sn candidate for mayor of Chicago. Tho following year ha was. a write-in candidate for President of tha United States. . IT ; Entertainer Dick Gregory will sp at tho Nebraska Union Sunday. it