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Wilde-Stein Expected To Air Rebuttal To Gass' Attack, The Maine Campus Mar 1974

Wilde-Stein Expected To Air Rebuttal To Gass' Attack, The Maine Campus

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

In accordance with the Federal Communication Commission's Fairness Doctrine, WLBZ has responded favorably to a written request by the Wilde-Stein Club to answer what the club calls "malicious and distorted charges" made against it by Rev. Robert Gass on his Sunday broadcast "Glad Todings."


Letter Summarizing The History Of The Wilde-Stein Gay Symposium Controversy, Howard R. Neville Mar 1974

Letter Summarizing The History Of The Wilde-Stein Gay Symposium Controversy, Howard R. Neville

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Letter from President Howard R. Neville to Chancellor Donald R. McNeil summarizing "the various steps which took us to the Board of Trustees meeting on the Wilde-Stein issue."


Historical Sketch Of Tractor Testing, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab Mar 1974

Historical Sketch Of Tractor Testing, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

A historical sketch of Tractor Testing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Lester F. Larsen. Engineer in charge since 1947, visits with George S. Round, Professor of Agricultural Communications at the University about individuals who made contributions to the successful program. He also reports on 1,155 tests conducted up to January I, 1974, and contrasts tractors of 1974 with those of 20, 30 or more years ago . Testing fee schedules are reviewed in a self-supporting project favorably known round the world.


Letter Of Support From Parents Of A Umaine Student, F. L. Bull Mar 1974

Letter Of Support From Parents Of A Umaine Student, F. L. Bull

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Typed letter from Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Bull expressing support for the Civil Rights of homosexual students attending the University of Maine.


Results Of Ongoing Survey Of Student Opinion Indicate A Growing Trend Toward Liberalism, Paul Betit Mar 1974

Results Of Ongoing Survey Of Student Opinion Indicate A Growing Trend Toward Liberalism, Paul Betit

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

"Are you opposed to homosexual relations between consenting adults?" "Do you drink alcoholic beverages?" "Are you opposed to the dissemination of birth control devices to college students by the infirmary? "Would you favor the elimination of legal sanctions prohibiting the use of marijuana?" The answers these questions have elicited over the past seven years convince Dr. Kenneth Hayes that a social revolution has slowly and quietly changed the attitudes of students attending UMO.


Women's Arts Festival Scheduled For Saturday, The Maine Campus Mar 1974

Women's Arts Festival Scheduled For Saturday, The Maine Campus

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Women in the arts will be the theme of a Women's Art Festival in the Memorial Union from noon to midnight Saturday, May 11, including exhibits, workshops, readings, dance and films.


Trustees Accept 39 Proposals Of Longley Efficiency Report, The Maine Campus Mar 1974

Trustees Accept 39 Proposals Of Longley Efficiency Report, The Maine Campus

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

The University of Maine Board of Trustees voted unanimously in favor of implementing 39 or 68 recommendations suggested by the Maine Management and Cost Survey during its monthly business meeting at the UMB campus Wednesday.


Pregnancy Insurance Clause Approved By Senate, The Maine Campus Mar 1974

Pregnancy Insurance Clause Approved By Senate, The Maine Campus

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

A proposed change which adds student coverage for pregnancy to the present health insurance plan at a cost increase of $4.50 per year, was approved by the Student Senate, Tuesday night. The approval, by 28-2 margin, came after a debate on the validity of increasing insurance costs for both males and females to provide coverage for a problem applying primarily to women.


Maine Campus Editorials, The Maine Campus Mar 1974

Maine Campus Editorials, The Maine Campus

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

The two-page editorial spread with letters and opinion pieces expressing various expressions on the Wilde-Stein club and homophobia.


Campus Draws Compliments, Jack Monroe Feb 1974

Campus Draws Compliments, Jack Monroe

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Letter to the editor of The Maine Campus from Jack Monroe, an employee of The Advocate, an LGBT magazine established in 1967 by the Los Angeles activist group Personal Rights in Defense and Education (PRIDE).


Bostonian Urges Support For Wilde-Stein, Donald M. Klein Feb 1974

Bostonian Urges Support For Wilde-Stein, Donald M. Klein

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Letter to the editor of The Maine Campus responding to a Letter to the Editor published February 12, 1974, expressing homophobic views.


Minister's Attacks On Gays Result In Radio Show Exit, Jan Messler Feb 1974

Minister's Attacks On Gays Result In Radio Show Exit, Jan Messler

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

A Bangor minister has accused a Bangor radio station, WLBZ, of dropping his program, "In Times Like These," because of his attacks on the Wilde-Stein Club at UMO. The Rev. Herman C. Frankland was notified last Friday that his program was being dropped and he was not to present the program he had scheduled for Saturday's airing which was a second affront to the homosexual group. His previous broadcast criticized the university's condoning of the group's existence on campus and the trustees' decision to allow the gay group to hold a conference on campus in April.


Dls Committee Turns Down Wilde-Stein Club Request, The Maine Campus Feb 1974

Dls Committee Turns Down Wilde-Stein Club Request, The Maine Campus

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

"A spokesman for the Wilde-Stein Club expressed dismay Monday at the refusal of the Distinguished Lecture Series [DLS] committee to grant the group $500 to sponsor Dr. Harold Brown as keynote speaker for the gay conference to be held this April and UMO."


Spectator Sport For Women, Warren T. Stull Feb 1974

Spectator Sport For Women, Warren T. Stull

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Letter to the editor of The Maine Campus about streaking or running naked through a public place such as sporting events, as a prank.


Bubar Started Gay Hysteria, Susan W. Henderson Feb 1974

Bubar Started Gay Hysteria, Susan W. Henderson

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Letter to the editor of The Maine Campus asking the University of Maine community to "put the whole furor over the Wilde-Stein club in perspective."


Gubernatorial Hopeful Favors Uninhibited University Forum, Steve Parker Feb 1974

Gubernatorial Hopeful Favors Uninhibited University Forum, Steve Parker

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

"I don't think that we ought to so rigidly restrict the university so that we don't allow differing points of view," said State Senator Harrison Richardson Friday, referring to anger expressed recently by the Republican House leaders over the state-wide gay conference to be held at UMO.


Campus Editorial Damned, Ted O'Meara Feb 1974

Campus Editorial Damned, Ted O'Meara

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

"Oh boy. Here we go again." Letter from Ted O'Meara, Vice President of the University Student Government defending the position of the Student Senate on the Wilde-Stein club.


Senator Writes Gay Scenario, James L. Gagne Feb 1974

Senator Writes Gay Scenario, James L. Gagne

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Letter to the editor from Off-Campus Senator, James L. Gagne, refuting points asserted in a Maine Campus editorial about the denial of funding to the Wilde-Stein club.


Homosexual Funding Evokes Sharp Student Opposition, Lisa Halvorsen Feb 1974

Homosexual Funding Evokes Sharp Student Opposition, Lisa Halvorsen

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

"Every great movement has started out by being a 'pain in the ass'." Person on the Street-style article soliciting student opinions about the Student Senate decisions regarding funding for the Wilde-Stein club.


Government By The Pollsters, The Maine Campus Feb 1974

Government By The Pollsters, The Maine Campus

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

The "Good German" syndrome seems to have struck the Student Senate. Maine Campus editorial reacting to the Student Senate decision regarding funding for the Wilde-Stein club.


Senate 'Libelously' Labeled By Campus, George S. Pitarys, John B. Osolin, Bruce J. Leavitt, David B. Sherlock, Robert S. Thurlow, Richard Z. Vantine, Charles Z. Cyr Feb 1974

Senate 'Libelously' Labeled By Campus, George S. Pitarys, John B. Osolin, Bruce J. Leavitt, David B. Sherlock, Robert S. Thurlow, Richard Z. Vantine, Charles Z. Cyr

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Letter to the editor of The Maine Campus. "We feel it necessary to take issue with your recent editorial, entitled, "Elected Cowardice." The seven authors of the letter express support for the decision made by the University Senate to deny finding to the Wilde-Stein club and vow, "...if they successfully obtain travel funds, we intend to approach the senate with the idea of one of our classmates and form a Happy Hetero Club, and [ask] for funds to travel [to] prime chick locations."


Senate Bows To Pressure, Refuses Wilde-Stein Funds, Debbie Sline Feb 1974

Senate Bows To Pressure, Refuses Wilde-Stein Funds, Debbie Sline

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

A resolution that would have granted $200 to the Wilde-Stein Club was defeated by the Student Senate Tuesday night after nearly an hour of emotional debate. The resolution, defeated by a vote of 28-10-3, was introduced in the Senate last week after the group was granted $150. The original request for $400 made by the Wilde-Stein Club was reduced at a Finance Committee meeting to $150.


Legislators Take Aim At Gay Conference, The Maine Campus Feb 1974

Legislators Take Aim At Gay Conference, The Maine Campus

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Controversy continued to mount this week over the proposed statewide homosexual conference to be held at UMO in April.


Elected Cowardice: Blaming The Constituents, The Maine Campus Feb 1974

Elected Cowardice: Blaming The Constituents, The Maine Campus

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Oh, boy. Here we go again. First we learn that UMO Student Senate has suddenly decided they can't give the Wilde-Stein Club $300 to help finance for their scheduled gay conference. Next, we find out that the Republican House members, during a party caucus, decided they can't consider giving the University of Maine any more money until the Board of Trustees reneges on their decision to let the gays hold the statewide conference at UMO.


Correspondence From A Maine Citizen, Name Redacted, Winthrop C. Libby, Howard R. Neville Feb 1974

Correspondence From A Maine Citizen, Name Redacted, Winthrop C. Libby, Howard R. Neville

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Typewritten letter from a Maine citizen expressing homophobic views to former University of Maine President Winthrop Libby through the Ellsworth American. Libby forwarded the missive to President Howard Neville.


Letters To The Editor About Wilde-Stein, Tim Keating, James L. Bray Jan 1974

Letters To The Editor About Wilde-Stein, Tim Keating, James L. Bray

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Letters to the editor of The Maine Campus newspaper addressing concerns over the Wilde-Stein Club using the University of Maine Student Senate Office for club business and condemning members of the Wilde-Stein Club using Christian biblical quotes promoting heterosexual sex.


Privilege Vs. Priority, The Maine Campus Jan 1974

Privilege Vs. Priority, The Maine Campus

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

The new library circulation policy announced by Dr. James MacCampbell is deficient in one area--it does not apply to the faculty. Students who have been at UMO for any length of time know very well that this is nothing extraordinary. Faculty members have long been held above the student as a privileged class. Their extensive library privileges are just one facet of the caste system fostered by university policy.


Correspondence From A Umaine Alumnus, Name Redacted Jan 1974

Correspondence From A Umaine Alumnus, Name Redacted

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Carbon copy of a letter written by a University of Maine alumnus expressing homophobic views and denouncing the University's position regarding the Wilde-Stein Club and "gay symposium."


Statement Of Resolution Of The Board Of Trustees, Margaret R. Dexter Jan 1974

Statement Of Resolution Of The Board Of Trustees, Margaret R. Dexter

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Documentation of the University of Maine Board of Trustees "Statement of Resolution" approved and adopted on January 23, 1974. "Recognizing that many citizens have differing views on the matter of who and which groups should have an opportunity to meet on our University campuses, the Board of Trustees reaffirms the previous policy as approved in 1967 and 1969 of open campuses and the greatest amount of freedom of speech and of dissemination of ideas. Accordingly, we see no reason to deny any student group the right to meet on our University campuses for lawful purposes or in accordance with University …


Letter Seeking Advice From University Chancellor, Howard R. Neville Jan 1974

Letter Seeking Advice From University Chancellor, Howard R. Neville

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Letter from President Howard R. Neville to Chancellor Donald R. McNeil requesting guidance on handling a request from the Wilde-Stein Club to host a "gay symposium" on the University of Maine, Orono campus.