What each of these stories shows is that, despite being a non-elite, open admissions, Midwestern school, major aspects of the social change occurred on the UNL campus. Students for a Democratic Society played a large role initially in introducing the idea of student rights and student power to the university. Sympathetic editors of the student newspaper continued the process, and students themselves clearly favored some action on the issue. Groups like SDS and Friends of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (FSNCC) made civil rights, black power, and apartheid an issue not only on campus but for the larger Lincoln community. Certain professors, such as David Trask, Stephen Rozman, and others regularly encouraged students to organize and act. And like many colleges, students at UNL were outraged when Nixon, who had promised peace in Vietnam, went on to expand the war. The events of the Sixties occurred here, as they did across the Midwest and across the nation.