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Students at a campus protest back in the
(good?) old days illustrate their dissent to
the Vietnam War by tossing war medals
into a casket-
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By Rose Fitzpatrick
Student issues in the news in the late
1960s and early 1970s included the war in
Vietnam, civil rights, lowering the voting
age from 21 to 18, lowering the drinking
age from 21 to 18 or 19, and having co
educational living units.
Methods of confronting issues ranged
from a march protesting the campus visit
of former vice president Spiro Agnew to a
"live-in" lecture with a speaker from the
Black Panthers.
Student organizations in those days in
cluded the Draft Resistors Union, which
was founded by a former UNL professor
then living in Canada and the Veterans for
Peace.
Many of the student concerns have
changed and some of the organizations
have disappeared.
ASUN President Bud Cuca said the
senators spend time researching their
arguments and are conscious of the politi
cal climate in which they present them.
For. example, he said, cutting off the
funds for speakers in 1978 was a touchy
issue and senators had to be careful how
they approached people.
Funding for political speakers was cut
by the NU Board of Regents after the
Young Americans for Freedom objected to
the appearance of Jane Fonda at UNL. A
controversy concerning censorship ensued.
The regents decided to finance speakers,
again last December at a meeting in which
students presented several demands.
Cuca said that ASUN has been research
ing the university budget since last April
and will testify at the legislative Appropri
ations Committee public hearing the first
week in February.
Cuca said national student issues, such
as truth in testing, are handled by the
National Student Association, which has
conferences, passes out literature and
lobbies in Congress.
The Committee for Fees Allocation re
views the budgets of student fee users and
makes recommendations to the student
senate, which in turn makes recommenda
tions to Richard Armstrong, vice chancel
lor for student affairs.
CFA is two years old. Before 1978 there
was the Fees Allocation Board, which was
made up of members appointed by the
administration.
Former chairman Jim May, who resign
ed Tuesday, said it is too early to tell how
effective CFA is. However, he said it is
more effective than FAB because elected
representatives of the students are making
the decisions.
CFA does not seek additional funding
but works within the given budget.
To raise additional funds for speakers
and other University Program Council acti-.
vities, the Student Foundation Committee
is being revived.
John Parsons, a member of CFA, said
the Student Foundation began with a
$10,000 donation front Valentino's Pizza
after speaker funding was cut by the
regents.
Parsons said there is an additional
$9,000 through the All-University Fund,
which pledged one-half of what would be
raised through a fund raising effort that
netted $18,000.
The Residence Hall Association is a stu
dent organization that represents students
living in dormitories.
' Jay Curtiss, RHA president, said some
of the issues concerning students in the
dorms are housing rates, the quality of ser
vices and alcohol policy.
Curtiss said RHA either does surveys or
relies on its stuflent representatives to find
out what students want, .
Some issues are brought up by univer
sity officials, Curtiss said. The student
broadcasting policy was an issue RHA
worked on last semester vith David
DeCoster, dean of students, RHA helped
set up guidelines for students making
broadcasts so that students would retain
the privilege of broadcasting, Curtiss said.
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By Suzanne Sayed
Student protests, violent activism and angry
demonstrations seem to have diminshed since the 1960s,
according to several UNL professors;
"There is a clear turnabout in the way that students
function today compared to 10 or 15 years ago,"
economics professor Campbell McConnell said .
Today's student activism, he explained, is much more
sophisticated and realistic, and much less visible than it
was a decade ago when student protests were front page
news,
"Students are probably more successful in today's
.society," he said, adding that, "persuasive tactics are
always more appealing than threatening tactics."
"When students push for change, their manner is
organized and rational," he said, "The idealism of the 60s
has changed, as students realize that they can't always win
every battle.
"But they are heard," McConnell said, "and they are
respected."
Loren Bonneau, associate professor of history and
philosophy of education, agreed with McConnell,
Work with establishment
When students want something done, he said, they
work within the establishment, rather than on the out
side. He did. add, however, that students have been more
passive in recent years-much more concerned with their
personal future rather than 'the country's political and
economic future,
This attitude, that fostered the "me" generation of the
1970s is quite unlike that of the 1960s, where, Bonneau
said , "people were looking for a cause."
Throughout much of the 1960s, there was violence for
the sake of violence, said Bonneau. "People were mad
even if they didn't know what they were mad about."'
Although students of the 1960s and 1970s seemed to
be at opposite extremes, Bonneau said that neither group
seemed too ettective.
William Avery, an associate professor of political
science, also recognized the personal-growth concern of
the '70s. "Students are still more concerned about careers
and jobs," he said, "and are far less intense about political
issues than the students of the i960s."
Students less uptight
lie called the atmosphere of the '60s "highly charged,"
and commented that it is much easier to teach now, witn
students less uptight about political issues.
Avery did note, however, that protest often becomes
necessary when the appropriate channels for meaningful
participation are closed down.
"Protest," he explained, "is often the last resort when
there are no channels to hear a legitimate complaint."
"Students don't have nearly the voting power or
representation that they should have as students, even on
this campus," Avery said, They should have in ,the regent's
vote, and should have much stronger control over student
fees'
James Cole, psychology professor, said that although
any protest that leads to violence is bad, protest some
times leads to change. -
"Often change is a consequence of rational upheaval
even though we prefer the, rational and cool approach to
situations, it does not always work," Cole said.
Today's student seems quieter and therefore student
intervention is less public and less of a group phenomenum,
he added,
Quiet dedication
Cole said, however, that today's students seem much
more mature and responsible. "They are dedicated in a
quiet sort of way," he added, t .
Lynn . White, assistant professor of sociology and re
searcher, took an opposing point of view.
White, a student of the 1960s, commented that the
nature of attack never changed, but the nature of the
problems did "Students dealt with larger scale issues
then, she said. 'They promoted efforts that went be
yond campus-wide situations."
Asked if she thought students would react the same
way if the same issues came up again, White said,
Students would be no different in their approach to the
situation."
NU Regent Edward Schwartzkopf agreed that the
causes are somewhat different than before, and that there
has not been that great a change to problem solving.
Schwartkopf noted, however, that students today seem
to have a more responsible manner. "They are more
system"6 CMnccnle on woiking through the
it "Nnthing speaks louder than correct facts," he said,
and demonstrations without fads have little impact."
