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Abel Hall elevator. . . how would you like to be taken for a ride?
Students
revive
registration
by Steve Arvanette
Lancaster County Election Commissioner Bill Davidson
agreed Thursday to hold a voter registration drive on the UNL
campus between Oct. 9-11.
Davidson had told the Daily Nebraskan Wednesday that no
registration could take place on campus before the November
election.
But in a meeting with Innocents Society members Bill Lock
and Chris Harper, Davidson changed his mind and agreed to
the drive.
Innocents Society is the UNL senior men's honorary; the
group had planned to work with voter registration on campus.
When Innocents members heard that Davidson had canceled
the campus drive, Lock said, a delegation visited Davidson to
discuss the matter.
Registration will be in the Nebraska Union from 8 a.m. -4
p.m.
Davidson had reportedly come under pressure from Hess
Dyas, state Democratic party chairman, and Gov. J.J. Exon to
have registration on campus.
Davidson, a Democrat, was appointed election
commissioner by Exon in 1971.
In an interview Wednesday, he said he could not permit an
additional voter registration location outside of the
City-County Building.
Saying "we ran out of time," he originally contended that
his office could not handle the additional work so close to
election day.
At the meeting with Harper and Lock, Davidson again
stressed the added work his office must perform just prior to
an election.
But he said he wanted the campus community to feel he
Vandalism, breakdowns
plague dorm elevators
One-half hour. An hour. An hour and a half. Finally after
one hour and 45 minutes, Dave Eckmann left the elevator that
was stuck in between the ninth and tenth floor of Abel Hall.
Eckmann, student assistant on Abel 10, said he entered the
elevator on tenth floor at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, the door closed,
the elevator moved a few feet and stopped.
Eckmann said he alerted a passerby through a one-inch
opening in the door and finally loft his chamber at 8:15 p.m.
Most students haven't been caught in a dormitory elevator
for more than one hour, but elevators are apparently a
frequent subject of complaints from students.
"Elevators are one of the biggest headaches we have," says
Dick Strait, coordinator of UNL housing operations.
More than $17,000 was spent last year for repairs on the 16
passenger elevators and four freight elevators in the
dormitories, he said.
Strait said that 65 to 80 per cent of elevator problems are
caused by vandalism. Only 15 to 20 per cent are actual
maintenance breakdowns, he added.
"A student doesn't see this when he's stuck in an elevator,"
Strait said. "He sees it as a lousy elevator.
"Our problems usually start from the first day," Strait said.
He added, however, that this year student elevator operators
were used during check-in at the dormitories and there were
no breakdowns.
Student elevator operators might be a feasible means to
alleviate the problems, he suggested.
Absentee ballots unlikely
for state's draft evaders
Young Nebraska men who left the country to avoid the
rnjlitary draft wil probably not be allowed to vote by absentes
ballot in the November general election.
Election officials in many states have received requests for
absentee ballots from individuals who moved to Canada to
avoid military service.
The requests have sent those election officials to law books
and court cases to find legal precedent for making a decision
on whether to send the ballots.
Nebraska Secretary of State Allen Beermann said Thursday
his office has not been asked to rule on the issue by any of the
state's county election officials.
However, if he were asked to interpret Nebraska statutes,
Beerman said he would probably say such individuals should
not be allowed an absentee vote.
'They have removed themselves from the state for more
than temporary purposes," Bcenr .inn said, and therefore can
not claim the state as their residence.
"If these fellows have gone to Canada, they plan to stay
there indefinitely," Beermann said.
Since they are "fugitives from justice" and have federal
indictments against them, Beermann said he doubted whether
they would elect to return to the state in the immediate
future.
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First semester degree deadline
Students planning to
graduate at the end of first
semester should apply for their
degree or certificate by Oct. 2,
according to the Registration
and Records Office. Students
can apply at the information
window in the Administration
Building between 8 a.m. and 5
p.m. Friday.
was cooperating.