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ow Wow '75 cancel le By Susie Reitz The Council of American Indian Students (CMS) has voted to cancel "Pow Wow '75" because of a stipulation attached to funding approved by the Fees Allocation Board, according to CAIS President Charlie Lapointe. The stipulation requires that the Indian counselor in Minority Affairs, Gordon Kitto, co-authorize all expenditures of the organization. The requirement was adopted from a letter recommending conditions for allocation of funds sent to the Fees Allocation Board (FAB) by Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Ken Bader. Bader said the stipulation was necessary to "insure fiscal and legal accountability" and that "Mr. Kitto will have no authority to veto legally correct and financially sound activities that are recommended by CAIS." CAIS objected to the stipulation because it is "possible illegal discrimination" against the council, Lapointe said. Other student organizations receiving money from the FAB are only required to, have an organization officer and adviser authorize expenditures, he said. CAIS has asked the Nebraska Civil Liberties Union (NCLU) to investigate the matter, according to Lapointe. Planning could continue The CAIS motion to cancel the pow wow stated that "if the stipulation were removed" planning would be continued, but Lapointe said, "It is too late to plan on holding it since this investigation by the NCLU will probably take several weeks." Lapointe said funds were provided for the pow wow through Minority Affairs in previous years. However, CAIS was reluctant to use such funding because of a boycott of the office declared last September when American Indian students said they thought the office was "not working in their best interests," he said. "When we are forced to go through Minority Affairs by stipulations like that of the Fees Board funding, it could be interpreted by other agencies that Minority Affairs helped us in programming the pow wow, but they haven't," Lapointe claimed. Trying to function separately "The CAIS is a student organization and we are trying to function separately from Minority Affairs as an independent group," he explained. "We feel services arranged by Minority Affairs should be in addition to those programs which our organization has planned and found funds to carry out." Because of the pending legal action by the NCLU, Bader and Kitto said they "preferred not to comment" on the situation of the Fees Allocation Board decision. According to Minority Affairs director Jimmi Smith, Minority Affairs has "open doors" to any minority students. His staff is interested in helping students maintain "viable working organizations," he said. "The staff tries to help students become aware o'f channels open to them in the university system which will develop their interests," Smith said. "Minority Affairs is not established to control minority student organizations, but we want to help them sustain a lifeline and woik out any problem they have in becoming self-sufficient." "We also want to help the minority student maintain a relationship with the total university community and become a productive, contributing individual," Smith added. 1 ' - - ' -'' N ' i Jk t ., 1 "1 ' , " v'' ' I f : 4 'V 1 j 1 - V. . ' 'v . . 1 ; - , , i Follies launch Greek Week "These are the Good Old Days" was the theme of Sunday's 1975 Greek Follies, the opening event of UNL's Greek Week. All 41 fraternity and sorority houses on campus are cooperating for the annual week-long celebration, according to Al Eveland, Interfraternity Council president. .The Follies were a series of one-act plays depicting the history of college life since the founding ofNUin 1869. In addition to the Follies, the various houses are promoting interGreek awareness with living exchanges between the houses, Eveland said. He said each house is accepting three people from other houses to live for the week. Tonight the Greeks will host exchange dinners, each house exchanging with five other houses, he said. The semi-finals and finals of Trivia Bowl competition are scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, Eveland said. The contests will be in the main lounge of the Nebraska Union Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. and Wednesday at 7 p.m. Weekend plans include a 9 p.m. dance at Utica Friday night which is open to all university students. Steele Avenue will provide music and admission is free. glililllilllliliiiaillilililliliiiil iiHiiiiililii! daU r autmpt f torn lconi ta wllbhoMlag .. .check with thm IRS for rftIU. IMOTWl ilvvMMM nIM Council of Lapointe. American Indian Students inni! iaiiiiai!iiii!iiiiiiaiiii!iniaiii President Charlie Photo by Ted Kirk uitiiiiuaiiiiitauiiip :i! AoodlndD Systems & sngini and jSliHIfflN13'' ARE PLEASED TO BE ASSOCIA TED WITH Production of S.I). A I 9 - C, (or. 1 wW 've Danced All ssht) wTT 4 A Discotheque OPENING MONDAY, MARCH 10th 1228 P STREET ound & Lights byr AUDIO SYSTEMS & DESIGN 5421 South 84th 489-9888 . - 2- daily nebraskan page 9 mondav, march 10, 1975
