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mri at r-f prohibition repeoi By George Miller Last Saturday's Kansas University (KU Kansas State University (KSU) football game marked the debut of beer sales at the KU student union in Lawrence. Kansas is the fourth Big 8 Conference school to allow the sale of liquor on campus and the fifth to allow consumption of some type of alcohol. Nebraska is not one of them. There has been no further progress at UNL to bring either consumption or sale to the campus, according to Ken Bufler, vice chancellor for student affairs. The ASUN Government Liaison Com mittee is gathering financing of an opinion poll to gain student opinions on alcohol on campus. The poll's results would be used when another try (the last was in 1973) is made to get the NU Board of Regents to approve consumption, and possibly sale, of liquor on university property. A task force on differentiated housing, sponsored by the Housing Policy Commit tee of the Council on Student Life (CSL) is also studying the possibility of liquor in residence hall rooms as part of an overall study of dormitory policies. Beer sales at Lawrence followed action by the Kansas Board of Regents Oct. 21 allowing each state university in Kansas to decide for itself whether it wanted to sell 3.2 beer, according to Warner Ferguson, assistant director of the KU student union. Ferguson said the consumption of beer on campus had been allowed by the Regents since 1972. Beer also could be consumed at private meetings and parties on campus, he said. Since the 1972 decision, he said, there had been no liquor-related trouble on campus except in controlling the consump tion at private parties which might include persons below the age of 18, the legal age for drinking 3.2 beer in Kansas. According to student body president Ed Rolfs, approximately 300 persons were in the union Saturday at any one time to get their first look at 3.2 beer being sold there. Rolfs said the KU administration tried to keep the sales low key to prevent possible misbehavior by patrons. f r If jf .J k I - ALCOHOL SCOREBOARD ALCOHOL MOW-ALCOHO Spearheading the move to allow Kansas campuses to sell beer was the student ad visory board to the Kansas regents. The board comprises executives of the student governing boards of the Kansas campuses, according to Ferguson. However, KSU has not allowed the sale of beer on campus, according to Earl Molting, dean of students at KSU. Molting said that 3.2 beer may be con sumed in dormitories and at residence hall functions, but that there has been no poli cy change concerning sale yet. Molting said the KSU Union Governing Board has been asked to consider the ques tion and has taken a campus poll on the subject. Continued on p. IS friday, november 7, 1975 volume 99 number 43 lincoln, nebraska daily brastefi) (Tone Skull, crossed keys reappear on campus "Tkir I IXC,TKK By Ron Ruggless Mystery and secrecy shroud the skull and crossed keys symbol that has reappear ed on the UNL campus. The skull, with a left red eye and the other green and Greek equivalents to the letters TNE cn the forehead, has appeared on fraternity and sorority doorsteps and in pamphlets mailed to the Interfraternity Council flFC), Panhellenic and all Greek houses. Obviously, someone is behind TNE's re appearance, but no one wants to talk about it, or, if they do, they don't want their names mentioned. Someone even threatened the life of a reporter asking about the organization. TNE-Theta Nu Epsilon, "the fraternity of fraternities"-allegedly comprises Greeks in prominent campus positions. Vote reconsidered LB6 amendment added By Dick Pierscl The Legislature Thursday reconsidered State Sen. Loran Schmit's amendment to Gov. Exon't bill cutting general fund ex penditures 3 per cent (LB6) and passed 27-17 the sm?!idrnent which would exempt several state agencies, including NU, from the budget cuts. That amendment deletes approximately $3.7 million from the governor's request for $10.4 million in general fund appropri ations reductions. Reconsideration of the amendment came after the Legislature rejected it Wed nesday. Reconsideration may occur only if a senator who did not vote or voted on the prevailing side requests it and a majority of the Legislature concurs. Sen. Gerald Koch was absent during Wednesday's vote and requested the recon sideration. Koch vote, plus vote switches by Sen. . William Nichol and Sen. Larry Stoney pro vided the difference needed to pass the amendment. Wednesday the Legislature voted to ex clude the Departments of Administrative Services (DAS) and Revenue from the amendment and added Educational Lands and Funds, the Mexican-American Com mission and the Equal Employment Oppor tunity Commission. The Senators also voted to add other amendments to the bill. , An amendment restoring $166,000 cut by LB6 to the Beatrice State Home was ap proved 25-6. It was sponsored by Sen. George Burrows. The senators approved another amend ment sponsored by Sen. Schmit requiring state agencies to pay all accounts within 30 d?ys 2ftr receipt of good? snd services. The amendment also provided that the DAS report when an account is more than 30 days past due and directs the Attor ney General to insure compliance. Sen. Jerome Warner introduced an amendment setting specific appropriations for the state natural resources development fund, waste water treatment fund and gov ernor's emergency fund. Those amounts were reductions of $1 from original appro priations. Warner said that would allow the gover nor to line-item veto those specific amounts to the level of their projected ex penditure by June 30, 1 976. He said only $400,000 of the natural re sources development fund's $2 mill 'on general fund appropriation and $1.4 million of the waste water treatment fund's $7.7 million appropriation would be spent by June 30, 1976. LB6 was advanced to enrollment and review 33-9 on its way to final reading. Sen. Jules Burbach, speaker of the Legislature said the four" bills being con sidered would probably reach final reading Friday when the senators convene at 3 p.m., remain there Monday for the con stitutionally required one day, and be voted upon Tuesday. , . Although TNE was all-male in the past, if the rumor is true that houses with the emblem painted on their step hold TNE members, sororities now have members in the organization. Prime of TNE Four 1950's TNE alumni provided his tory on TNE, but didn't want their names published. According to one source, the fraternity was founded in the late 1890s by Roscoe Pound, former Harvard Law School dean and NU alumnus. Membership in the fraternal organiza tion is secret, the source said. The fraternity now has developed into a national secret or subrosa organization, the source said. Each year the organization's skull emer ges on campus at about Homecoming, ac cording to Jayne Anderson, coordinator of fraternities, sororities and co-ops. At least it has for the 14 years she has been here. Welcome banner The airplane dragging the "Welcome TNE alums" banner has flown over Memor ial Stadium on Homecoming for many years, Anderson said. The plane is paid by TNE alumni, who send in $5 each year, the source said. According to a person who was a TNE member from 1949-53, the group was ac- . tive then and raised havoc with campus or ganizations such as Innocents, a men's honorary fraternity. "Quite a few of the members of Inno cents were in TNE," he said, "so about two days before the Innocents were tackled (the method of inducting new members) we hired several kids to hand out brochures with all of the new members names on them. 'The university went absolutely wild about it," he continued, "but they could never figure out how the organization got the names of the members before they did." Eat lunch, get drank He said the group would skip class once a week, meet at Lee s Restaurant, eat lunch and get drunk. "One night we went out at 2:30 (aon.) and got drunk," he said. "Then we came back to campus about 4:30 and proceeded to paint the skull and crossed keys on just about everything." The Phi Kappa Psi president caught them and called the police. The president of TNE had to submit a list of TNE mem bers to the chancellor, the source said, and the list was put in a safety deposit box that can be opened with two keys-one belongs , to the TNE president and the other to the chancellor. "We were told if we didn't disband," he added, "the chancellor would get the list and expel all of the members from school." Wielded power Another source agreed that the fraterni ty then wielded power on Campus, especial ly in campus politics. Most of the members held influential offices in-their Greek houses, he said, so TNE could determine the candidate they wanted in student government office and make each member of their house vote for him. "We had a check-off sheet placed at the ATO (Alpha Tau Omega) house," he said, "and the members had to vote at the Neb raska Union, then check in over there." TNE initiation in the 1950s consisted of drinking a pint of "rot-gut whiskey" and surviving, sources reported. One current student said his father was surprised to see the emblem on his fratern ity's doorstep when he came to UNL's homecoming. He said his father was amazed the (Organization still existed. But, indeed, evidence suggests TNE does exist. But, it remains as secretive as ever. As one source said, "This group is so secret that even the members don't know what is going on half of the time." inside Pershing College: And what the NU Board of Regents today will consider doing with it. . . . p.5 John Gardner: And the Common Cause fight for the Sunshine Initiative p.ll Also Find: Editorials p.4 Arts and Entertainment p.l 2 Sports p.14 Crossword p.16 Short Stuff p.5 Weather Friday: Decreasing cloudiness. Winds becoming northwesterly, ranging from 5 IS m.pii. High temperatures in the mid to upper 60s. Friday night: Partly cloudy and much cooler. Temperatures in the lew to mid-3 0s. Saturday: Sunny, with temperatures ranging from 60-65.
