monday, november 3, 1980
daily nebraskan
page 7
Parking lot protestors question alcohol policy
By Ward W. Triplett III
and Maureen Costello
It was billed as a protest demonstration of the campus'
policy on alcohol, and a large turnout was urged in order
for it to be effective. Instead, no more than twelve
students turned out in the Harper Hall parking lot
Saturday afternoon.
The protest failed in it's attempt to bring to the NU
Board of Regents attention what students called the
"double standard" policy it has adapted toward on -campus
drinking.
"The alumni are allowed to drink, but we're not,"
said Keith Grotelvschen, a Harper 6 resident. "It seems
the regents believe that it is OK for you to violate a state
law if you are an alumni of the university, and you are
making contributions to the school. All we ask is that
they enforce the policy on them if they are going to
enforce it on us."
Craig Priefert, another student, said, 'The regents care
more about the alumni than they do about the students
who pay tuition." He thought the protest was useful
because "working through the system, we would only get
a minimum done."
No one student in particular came up with the idea or
the organization of the protest, said Harper Student
Assistant Mike Dempsey, who along with several other
SAs had planned to watch over the protest to make sure
thing didn't get out of hand.
Confusing policy
"This was all spread on word of mouth," Dempsey
said. "There is no telling how things like this will turn
out."
Although there were no SAs directly involved, they
were also in favor of a change in what Bob Gonderinger
of Harper Six called a confusing policy on the alcohol
subject.
"If you talked to three different sources, the regents,
the police, and housing, you'd get three different inter
pretations on what the policy is. It's tough to justify
some of the things they say is part of our responsibility,"
Gonderinger said.
He said that the SA staff will be writing letters to
housing, in particular to director Doug Zatecha, asking
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"One of the Smith SAs was telling me how she wrote
up a girl on Sunday for having liquor in the room, and the
girl said 'well, you saw me in Sellecks's parking lot yester
day with my parents and didn't say anything then, and I
was drinking that time'. Really, she's right. It's frustrat
ing. Are you an adult in the parking lot but not in the
dorm room?" Gonderinger asked.
But we've been told not to bother someone in another
complex by one source, and something else by another. It
comes down to the SAs discretion. There's just nothing
set."
The SAs were not advocating Saturday's rally and
thought it wouldn't change matters anyway.
"Realistically, I doubt the alcohol policy and rules will
change before I leave here, unless the board of regents
gets people with different attitudes and different ideas
real soon," Gonderinger said.
Ineffective turnout
The students also thought their protest, especially
with the small turnout, would be ineffective, but said it
may start people thinking. The main goal was to include
all people under the same policy, at all places on campus,
although interest varied from the student to student.
"I'm 21," a student from Harper said. "And if I had
not elected to go to college, I could fill a room up to my
chin in beer cans. Why should a desire for higher
education curtail my rights? But what I am really opposed
to is the regents' discriminatory attidtude to students in
the alumni situation. Why should they be special?"
The students were disappointed with the small attend
ance, but thought it will be better next week once
students become aware that scare tactics didn't prove to
be true.
It was rumored the day before that more than 100
students had planned to join in the beer drinking, but
stayed away when trouble was thought to be inevitable.
"Someone told me that the Schramm SA's were going
to come down and write up everybody so those people
didn't show up," one student said. Dempsey said he
received an anonymous phone call that said there would
be police intervention and arrests would be made.
However, none appeared in the hour the students spent
in the lot.
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