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e-iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiih"iiii""""i Hiiiiiniiiiiiiniiiim I CAMPUS I I OPINION I Jo Stohlman, editor Mike Kirkman, business manager Page 2 Monday, April 25, 1966 Schaaf Endorsed The Daily Nebraskan endorses Terry Schaaf for president of ASUN. As we said in Friday's editorial, we feel that the most important issue in this year's election revolves around ttie pro posed Bill of Rights. We feel strongly that the Bill of Rights must be passed not only by sudents but also by the Ad ministraion. The Rights Bill has been the ma jor part of Steve Abbott's platform. He was the candidate who brought the idea to (he campaign, who firmly de fended it. However, we question his method of securing passage of the Rights Bill. He maintains that he has researched the area thoroughly, is ready to go to the administration with it, and is confident of its approval. There is nothing in the Campus Free dom Democratic Party's bill which we op pose. We oppose the threat of a dissolved or ineffective student government if the Administration does not approve the bill in its present form. We maintain that student govern ment, while operating without a stu dent bill of rights this year, has been successful in many areas. It should be even more so with a bill of rights to back it up. We believe Schaaf's approach to the bill is politically more sane and secure. Schaaf has also defended the Bill of Rights "if the students want it." Many students who know about the bill support it, we believe many more will when it has been explained to them. But Schaaf does not propose to hit Administration with a list of 16 de mands of student rights. As he says, "Demanding the rights does not mean that we have them." Rather, he would see the demand as a final step, after first having determined exactly what the policy or rule is in a cer tain area. Often these policy areas of stu dent rights are either hazy or non-exis-ent. After obtaining a delineation of t h e policies, Schaaf would have Senate go over the list, determining point by point what rules are obnoxious to students and why. Armed with sound objections to particu lar policies, Schaaf believes Administra tion will approve the better regulation pro posed by students. If the refusal comes, then the demand may come. Besides favoring Schaaf's stand on the bill of rights, we believe that he has the experience and programs along the more traditional lines of student government which are not necessarily mickey mouse to have aborted, for instance, a proposed tuition hike. While supporting Schaaf for presi dent, we firmly believe that Abbott and Dave Snyder have many and varied ideas which would make them out standing senators. We whole-heartedly support them for Student Senate. The Daily Nebraskan endorses Roger Doerr for first vice president. Doerr has served well on the present ASUN; he has many good ideas. He is running with Schaaf, and we feel the two would com plement each other. The Daily Nebraskan also endorses Bob Samuelson for second vice president. Again, our support is predicated largely on Samuelson's record this past year as a senator. Samuelson presented the report on the University's budgetary problems, presented it at ASUN with Chancellor Hardin and Vice Chancellor Joseph Soshnik answering his questions; his work was greatly responsible for the saving of at least $40 in tuition for ev ery student next year. His ideas will continue to serve the University's student government. Finally, there are some candidates for Student Senate which the Daily Nebraskan supports because of personal knowledge of their abilities and ideas. This does not preclude the possibility of others being equally qualified. We base our support on past records and personal knowledge of them. From Arts and Sciences: Liz Aitken, Phil Bowen, Bill Minier, Nesha Neumeis ter, Ron Pfeifer, Susie Phelps, Joan Mc Clymont. From Engineering: Bill Hansmire. From Teachers: Carolyn Bedient, Kris Bitner, Kathy Costello, Karen Westerberg, Pam Wood. From Business: Cheryl Adams, Nan cy Probasco, Tom Rubin. Jo Sohlman ii t , -o..,ir i lit; . - . DARTS.. Mot irJ! Cllit (Case By FRANK PARTSCH Ah to be back at dear olde NU again! To be stand ing in the softly falling snow at sundown to sing Easter greetings to the gang at he Wesley House. To lie serenely in one's bed and mediate with the sounds of the night. A mel low, hooting Diesal 76, and the answer of its intended, a Sig Ep howling at t h e moons. To look off into the east ern sky and draw inspira tion from what God hath rot ... Johnny Carson House, Zebulon Pike House Governor's House. To pick up a newspaper and read about your favor ite teacher and his travels ... all of them with one way tickets. Just little memories. Get ting the mail, and throwing away the parking ticket re ceipts, written, as they seemed, in green ink. Remembering the power we had as students. Our money built a Union we could not eat in, a dormitory we could not sleep in. Remembering the pleas from our headquarters to just be calm and realize that these things take time when other schools are solving comparable problems with out being calm and taking thirty or forty years. Listening to our favorite mathematics teacher "There are as many em ployes of the farm bureau as there are farmers in its jurisdiction." (And wonder ing how 15,000 administra tors all managed to find suites in the Teachers Col lege pimple.) And getting sick. Not of education, but of all the mickey mouse you have to go through to get one. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Dr. Trask was a cour ageous man; Dr. Hiller was a gentle man; Dr. Hall was a talented man; . the com bined loss of those and oth er good men makes me sad. piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiimmmiiiiiw I ... And More Letters I iiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiHniiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiniiiiiiiHiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiitiiiiiiiiii!: More Letters . . . Daily Nebraskan v c i ri r.m r or Samuelson Vol. 81. No. 98 April 25, 1966 Teacher Types Dear Editor, Recently on t h e editorial page I have read about the different 'breeds' of s t u -dents and professors. Since a guy in Michigan wrote them, I noticed that two Nebraska 'breeds' had been left out. I'd like to add them to the list, if I may. THE PROFESSOR WHO DOES NOT PROFESS , (NOR TEACH) ... has students making reports to his fellow students all class period, every class period. Since the students haven't learned anything n class yet, they do not reveal much worth-w h i 1 e knowledge in - their reports. Occasionally, when a stu l dent can't give a report be ' cause he has skipped, the 1 course is implimented with ' films that we have seen since fourth grade. THE BROWSING PRO ' FESSOR ... he browses through the textbook during class, saying "Hmmm, this is important. This is too. You'd better underline the third sentence on page 181. It's important." His s t u -dents are beginning to think that the reason he never says anything is because he cannot pronounce the words. Both of these breeds can't understand why no one comes to class and of course they dock grades for it. I'd gladly give their sal aries to our many fine pro fessors who are leaving be cause of the lack of pay. Sick of Ed Courses Abbott Backed Dear Editor, Steve Abbott would be a president more concerned with student problems than committee procedures; more adept at defining "student" than at defining "service;" and more suited to coping with the complex and dia bolical situations thrust up on his office than either of his qualified opponents. Frank Partsch Second-class postage paid at Lincoln, Nebraska. Member Associated Collegiate Press, National Advertising Service, Incorporated. Published at Room 51, Nebraska Union, Lincoln, Nebraska, 68508. TELEPHONE: 477-8711, Ex tensions 2588, 2589 and 2590. Subscription rates are $4 aer semes ter or S6 for the aoademlo rear. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday during the school year, except durinf vacations and exam periods, by students of the University of Ne braska under the Jurisdiction of the Faculty Subcommittee on Student Pub lications. Publications shall be free from censorship by the Subcommittee ar any person outside the University. Mem bers of the Nebraska! are responsible for what they cause sa be art n ted. EDITORIAL STAFF Editor, JO STOHLMANi maaaaini editor, STEVE HUNGEKFOKDl news editor. WAYNE KRKL'SCHER; oifhl news editor, JON KFRKHOI Fi sports editor, KELLEY BAKER i senior staff writers, JAN ITKIN, BRUCE GILES, JTIME MORRIS; junior staff writers, RANDY IREY, TON! VICTOR, NANCY HIONIIKIfhSON, DAN PILLAR; pho toirraphers, TOM RIBIN, RICH EIS EERi copy editors, POLLY RHYNOLD8 LOIS QUINNET, PEG BENNETT, BARB ROBERTSON, NANCY COUFAL. Dear Editor, Because of his past in terest and record in stu dent government, and be cause of his demonstrated enthusiasm and proven leadership, we ASUN sena tors, heartily support Bob Samuelson for second vice president of ASUN. Donald Voss Ronald Neel Katherine Frank Bill Potts Kris Bitner . Kelly Baker Ronald Pfeifer Liz Aitken William Hansmire Andrew Taulbe Gary Larsen Jay Lefko Karen Westerberg Steve Marshall Jan Binger William Coufal Thomas Pickering Goat 'Game' Dear Editor, The Intercollegiate Rodeo is coming up. We went last year and were distressed at one event the goat teth ering. They staked two tame goats on a short rope. The girl contestants then grab this goat and by twisting and wrenching its legs they throw it over. It's not a con test, or showing any skill. If they had to run down and catch the goat, at least it would have an equal chance of getting away, thus es caping the ordeal. The goats are helpless. About 20 hefty farm girls worked on these two goats, each one taking her turn, and when the goats were taken out, they limped and were obviously hurt. This spectacle goes on through all the rodeo performances, plus numerous practice ses sions, meaning these ani mals' legs are twisted well over 100 times. It is disgusting to watch, and we will not go again till we hear they have elim inated this event. Perhaps you could send a reporter to check up on this. And a word to the girl con testants, "Come off of it, girls." They said you girls needed some way to parti cipate. We would rather see riding skill rather than tak ing it out on a poor goat. 'Anonymous' 'THE WORLD Hi BUSHING COMPANY Oevchiiid,Ohse 44102 Educators endorse it. Professor Jacques Barzun, Columbia University: "In variably instructive, full, and extremely easy to use. 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Under the new ASUN constitution every effort was made to establish a distinct three branch student gov erning body so as to avoid the old student council struc. ture wherein a fused three branch government was domi nated by an authoritarian executive committee. Also com mittees were placed in the president's cabinet to elevate the Senate to the status of a truly legislative body. After operation for one year it becomes painfully ap. parent that ASUN has reverted back to a structure strik ingly similar to that which prevailed under the old student council constitution. The executive committee has been overemphasized so that now it emerges all powerful over a fused executive-legislative branch and a confused com mittee garble. Senators have spent far too much time mo nopolizing committees which rightfully belong in the exec utive branch. I submit that these and other ills cannot be remedied by the election of a second vice president. The ASUN struc. ture currently has an extremely broad base of participa. tion with a flexible committee structure which can be ex panded or contracted to fit any workload. If the president and vice president this year were over woiked it was clearly because they did not properly use the structure which is written into the ASUN constitution, not because a second vice president is needed. Under the ASUN constitution it was never intended that the pres. ident, vice president and executive committee would carry the entire workload and dominate student government. In reading the proposed amendment as printed in last Friday's Daily Nebraskan it is quite apparent that the entire amendment was poorly thought out and hurriedly drafted. It creates an office with almost no duties except those delegated by the president. This is little more than an elected flunky. The president exercising his power of appointment currently has authority to create such a po sition if he deems assistance desirable. The amendment to Article VII, Section 2, subsection C indicates that the president must now work through a second vice president to get his cabinet effective execu tive administration especially if a second vice president from a hostile faction were to be elected. Again under the present constitution the president could appoint some one of his own choosing to supervise his cabinet if the workload so required. The amendment also makes the second vice president a member of the electoral commission. It is interesting to note that the constitution convention last year made every effort to give the electoral commission an element " of independence apart from the manipulation of the exec tive branch or the executive committee. Now even the electoral commission must be fused with the executive committee. This union serves no useful purpose; indeed it is even undesirable. The question remaining, and one of no small moment, is whether it is even constitutional for ASUN to conduct an election for an office which does not yet exist. If such action is unconstitutional and the amendment does pass the earliest date that an election could be called would be in the spring of 1967. Clearly the ASUN constitution should be given an opportunity to operate as ratified by the student body last year. It should not be watered down by amendments to cure ills which are already dealt with in the constitution if properly placed into operation. Nor would it be amended to assist in the constitution if properly placed into oper ation. Nor would it be amended to assist in the retro gression of student government to the structure which prevailed under the old student council constitution. The proposed amendment providing for the office of second vice president should be soundly defeated until amendment of the ASUN constitution clearly becomes ne cessary and until sufficient time can be devoted to care ful drafting and proper integration of the amendments into the present ASUN constitution. John W. Klein Associates Endorsed Students of the University, The Associate Program is a program in which inter ested freshmen and sophomores may be directly involved with student government and learn from this experience in the hope that they will be educated members and fu ture leaders in student government. This year has been a particularly active one for the Associates. The group can be characterized by hard work, great interest and initiative. The Associates were mem bers of Student Senate committees and Associate com mittees. They attended Senate and Associate meetings. ..w,jr wjj'. niiiui.iorca aiC i Ullllljlg ill UlC ClCk-uuu for Student Senate. They have been capable members of the group which helped educate them in student govern ment. They have had experience in Senate and they are familiar with its proceedings. Therefore, they deserve your consideration on election day. The reason for the Associate Program is to produce educated people like these to run for office. The following Associates are candidates from their respective colleges for Student Senate: Arts & Sciences Jim Arundel, Walt Baumann, Phil Bowen, Tom Briggs, Meg Brown, John James, Carol John son, Mary Keim, Margo McMaster, Wayne Moles, Nesha Neumeistsr, Lynn Overholt, Mimi Rose, Mark Schreiber, Jon Vanderhoof. Teachers - Carolyn Bedient, Cindy Cherry, Kathy Costello, Kathy Eichhorn, Ann Evans, Kathy Kelley, Kathy Kuester, Liz Madole. Agriculture and home Ec Diane Kucera. Business Cheryl Adams, Dave Piester. Engineering Glenn Nees, Bill Origer. Joan McClymont, chairman of the Associate Committee Kent Neumeister, ASUN president Support for Abbott Deal Editor, I usually don't get involved In student politics so why this exception? I think our university is in a tight spot. Faculty are leaving and so on. But for the first time we students have a chance to do something about it. I m speaking abput the strong, courageous, imaginative leadership CFDP has shown in this campaign. I first met Steve Abbott when he was selling clothes. I was impressed by his ability and desire to serve others. Recently I've seen his Student Bill of Rights. It's great. Just read it for yourself and I think you'll agree we need a man like Abbott elected president of ASUN. Even though I won't be here next year I want to be proud to say I graduated from Nebraska. I want to see student government left in good hands. Let's vote for CFDP candidates and get something done for a change. freeman White, All American