Student power - 'a bastard offspring'
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Student power - 'a bastard offspring'
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Description
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page 185 from 1969 Cornhusker Volume 63
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Date
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1969
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Transcription
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Even in Nebraska, where copy-cat revolutionaries occasionally stir up enough fervor to walk out of the Union, students are beginning to have a voice in their affairs.
Student power in Lincoln is the bastard offspring of the Movement. It owes its existence primarily to the television camera which graphically illustrates for the administration what can happen if they don't give an inch here and there.
So the administration does give a little-grudginly, of course-and within four or five hundred years students may have some control over their curriculum, over women hours, over ROTC.
It's not as good as Columbia or Berkeley or even Colorado, but its' better than Creighton or Doane or Wayne State.
Like everything else in Nebraska student power is a watered-down innocuous version of everywhere else. To the majority of students, however, that is for the best. The only thing that interrupts classes is an honors convocation, and serious thought about the problems of our age can be postponed-indefinitely.
For Nebraska, student power is a point in time: roughly 2001 a.d.
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Author: Jack Todd
Title: "Student power-'a bastard offspring'"
Periodical: 1969 Cornhusker Volume 63
pages: 182-185
1969
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