Monday, October 17, 1966
Page 2
The Daily Nebraskan
YD, YE! PRESIDENTS SPEAK:
Donkey Serenade
Left Of Ri&ht
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By Sabra McCall
The Sorensen-Tiemann Debate last
Thursday pointed out again that Sorensen
takes a stand on issues, while his oppon
ent criticizes that stand, but does not of
fer any constructive alternatives.
For example, let's take Amendment
14, Aid to Education, that will be a the
ballot November 8th. Sorensen stated that
he is for the amendment, but that there
were changes he would like to See made.
He said that the Amendment should
be passed. Granted it is not the best of all
possible amendments, but, stated Soren
sen, "Government Is one of compromises.
You must make a choice among alterna
tives. But if you are going to move ahead,
there must be a choice of accomplishments
that are real. The 20 percent figure that
Mr. Tiemann was objecting to in the
Amendment is a minimum figure. The
reason that it is in there Is because the
legislators wanted a specific figure. 'The.
Amendment is not perfect, but it is pro
gress." What choice does Mr. Tiemann
offer?
One of the key issues developing in
the campaign is State indebtedness. Tie
mann proposes that we lift the long-lived
indebtedness limit of $100,000 to construct
the much needed highways throughout the
state.
Sorensen is opposed to blindly rush
Ing into debt, especially when Interest
rates have reached a record high level and
the need has not been shown for highway
revenue bonds. At present a study is be
ing conducted on state roads.
The Lt. Gov. says, "Let's wait until
we get the study, and then we can under
take construction." Phil Sorensen has said
that the interest alone on the estimated
$150,000,000 needed for the roads, would
be almost $30,000,000 a year. Surely a bank
er understands interest rates.
In closing Tiemann said that in start
ing our second century of statehood, Ne
braska needs strong positive programs.
What are his programs?
Sorensen pointed to the last 8 years
of progress in Nebraska under Democrat
ic leadership: Industrial development,
tourism, penal reorganization, recreation
areas, spur and access roads. He believes
that the Morrison administration and the
legislature cooperated to effect these pro
grams. Sorensen does not believe in blind par
tisanship and junking 8 years of effort just
because the opposition accomplished it.
Phil Sorensen offers strong positive lead
ership for Nebraska. He offers positive
programs, not Just platitudes and ideas
that ne ver get off the planning board.
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'Alt') !" , t i ?
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By Cathie Shattuck
A$ is the case with most political de
bates, when the one held here on campus
last week came to an end few people had
really changed their minds as to who they
would vote for, but some of them had be
gun to re-evaluate their original choices.
A brother's connection with a marty
ared President Was no longer equated with
leadership, especially the type of leader
ship that Nebraskans will seek when they
g o to the polls tills November.
It has been my policy throughout the
past few weeks to focus my comments on
the positive and dynamic qualities of the
Republican candidates so when I was asked
to write an analysis of the Tiemann-Sor-ensen
debate I decided to review for you
Mr. Tiemann's proposals.
I assume that ray opposition will not
use her entire column for character as
filiation and will laud her candidate.
The campaign for governor this fall
if ana between the philosophies of "let us
eontinne" vs. "let ns make progress". N.T.
(Nobis) Tiemann, the progressive candi
date, presented a clear plan for action by
calling for an upgrading of our education
al system with the addition of a junior
college system, vocational schools and a
research center to attract top men to the
state and thus lay a foundation for Indus
trial research and development.
In the area of taxation Mr. Tiemann's
ideas are progressive. He wants to develop
a fair and equitable system of taxation
based on a combination sales-income tax.
He realizes it is no easy task to repeal
the property tax, but he will not settle
for any half measures where the welfare
of Nebraskans is concerned. Government
may function to a large degree by com
promise, but Mr. Tiemann'f integrity will
not allow him to compromise the interests
of $ie people he wilt represent in any man
ner, for any personal or political gain.
This is the kind of leadership and in
tegrity that we need in the governor's of
fice in order to make this state realize
its full potential. VOTE FOR N. T. TIE
MANN, NEBRASKA'S NEW WAY TO
SPELL GOVERNOR!
Oft
11
BY KELLEY BAKER
Want to play a new kind
of statistical game? It's
called Interviews and this
is the way it works. '
Take any number of stu
dents and run them through
an interview chances are
that a campus politician
could predict the outcome
of the selection process. A
mathematician would tell
you that each individual has
an equal chance and that
the interviewing board
would make its choice on
the basis of talent and
willingness to work. But
you and I know that math
ematicians can be vary
naive.
Let's use the recant
ASUN Associate interviews
to illustrate the game. Seventy-five
associates were
chosen from among the
more than 300 students who
applied for the positions.
Now, according to tht
rules of Interviews tha
choices of the selection
committee will not reflect
a random sampling of tha
students who went through,
correct? If you answered
"yes" you have caught on
to Rule One, the essence
of the game.
Rnle Two requires the
following; yen must select
one representative for each
sorority and fraternity (un
less a house can't retali
ate.) Seventy-five minus 28
fraternities and IS sorori
ties leaves SS positions.
Sprinkle five or ten of these
among independents to show
that the selections are an
biased and you are left
with 25 to 30 extra plapca.
These premium spots are
not to be dealt with lightly.
In fact there is a formula
to follow in apportioning
these important positions.
The formula calls for ap
proximately five associates
for each interviewer. Let's
look at four examples and
see if tha correlation really
works out;.
The four examples art
Alpha Xi Delta (th chair
man of the associate com
mittee it an Alpha XI;)
Sigma Phi Epsilon (the
president of the ASUN is
a Sig Ep;) Beta Thata Pi
(two interviewers;) and
Kappa Alpha. Theta (one
member of the executive
council is a Theta.)
According te Rule Three,
the Alpha Xi' should have
five asseciatef (they do):
the SIM Ep's tjseuld kav
five (Uiay only have fear,
slipped a little ) the Beta's
Should have tea (they do;)
and the Theta's should have
five (they hive six and
this makes up for the Sig
Bp's.)
There if nothing wrong
with this because it is en
tirely in accordance with
Rule Three of the Game of
Interviews. Some people
complain that these associ
ate positions are merely
booty distributed among the
interviewers' houses but it
is just part of the game.
We also realize that the
fact that one-third (count,
'em, 25 out of 75) of all the
associates are members of
only four different houses is
also good because these stu
dents were undoubtedly the
most qualified of the inter
viewees. Rule Four of Interviews
requires that the selection
board allot a certain num
ber of places to famous
names er relatives of Im
portant people. This year
the board did an admirable
job by taking such cele
brated names as Almy,
Doerr, Hansmire, It kin,
Larsen and Rose.
The selection board is to
be commended for its fine
work. Special merit is de
served for such close ob
servance of the rules of In
terviews. It is to be hoped
that ether organisations will
pay as close attention to
the rules in their interviews
throughout the year.
My only suggestion is that
the name of the game be
changed from Interviews to
Nepotism.
Our Man Hoppe-
Jay Goes Far For A Friend
Arthur Hoppe
Howdy there, folks. How
y'all? Time for another tee
vee vis.t with the rootin'
tootin' Jay Family, star
ring ol' Elbie Jay a
lovable cuss whose only
aim is making friends and
keeping 'em. In their place.
As we join up with ol'
Elbie today, he's a packin'
his valise. And he's lookin'
a mite grim around the
dewlaps as his pretty wife,
Birdie Bird enters.
it it it
Birdie Bird (happily):
Oh, Elbie, you're going out
campaigning! It'll do you a
world of good to howdy and
press the flesh again.
Frankly, you've been just
a wee bit testy lately.
Elbie: Arrrggghhh!
Birdie Bird: But I knew
your fellow Democrats
would finally persuade you
to come out and help win
the e 1 e c 1 1 o n. What hap
pened? Did you finally hear
from California?
Elbie (grumpily): Yep.
They said I was first in war,
first in peace and first in
the hearts-. .
Birdie Bird: Oh, Elbie,
that's wonderful!
Elbie ... of 42.6 per cent
of my fellow countrymen
and maybe I'd like to cam
paign in Pennsylvania.
Birdie Bird: My, how gen
erous of them. And what
did Pennsylvania r ay?
Elbie: They said my per
sonal appeal was desperate
ly needed. Most likely in
New York or Ohio.
Birdie Bird (frowning):
How confusing.
Elbie: Right. So I called
in all the party strategists.
And I told them humbly:
"Friends, I'm willing to use
my immense magnetism
and tremendous popularity
to help any Democrat in
this great land of mine
achieve victory. I don't
care how far I got to go in
this gldrious cause."
Birdie Bird: 'That's nice,
Elbio. Where are they send
ing you?
Elbie: Asia.
Birdie Bird: Asia?
Elbie: Well, they figure
it'll help the Democrats at
borne If I show folks all the
friends I've made for us in
Asia.
Birdie Bird (brightening):
That makes sense. And
you've been wanting to see
Japan . . .
Elbie: I don't seem to be
going to Japan. Something
about the State Department
not wanting to topple their
government.
Birdie Bird (consolingly):
Well, there's lot of other im
portant places Indonesia,
Burma, India, Pakistan,
Cambodia . . .
Elbie (scowling): They
appear to have been left off
this itinerary. But at least
I'l get a warm welcome
from all my friends over
there. (Checking his list.)
All six of them.
Birdie Bird (cheerily):
And I don't recall when
anyone's gone so far to
campaign for his friends at
home.
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I What It Says)
Elbie (gloomily): Maybe
so. But one thing's begin
ning to fret me. Where am
I going to go to campaign
in 19 and 68?
it it
Well, tune in again, folks.
And meantime, as you
mosey down the winding
trail of life, remember what
Elbie's ol granddaddy used
to say:
"When a feller needs a
friend in this vale of tears
and strife, who needs him?"
By Robert Ewegcn
The Collegiate Press
Service
(As presented by Little
Boy Johnson, president of
the United States and
grandson of a former
President whom we all
know and love. The address
was delivered at the dedi
cation of the American mil
itary cemetery "Gettysburg
East," outside of Saigon in
the year 2052).
Man fellow Americans;
Foah score and seven
years ago, my grandfather
brought forth upon this
continent of Asia anew
political concept, conceived
in expediency and dedicated
to the propositon that we
are better dead than red.
Now we are engaged in
a Great Society (oops, I
mean a Civil War), and
for that matter have been
engaged in the Great Civil
War for four score and
seven years now, testing
whether that concept of a
permanent American mili
tary presence in Asia or
any concept so ill-conceived
and so ineptly executed, can
long endure.
Hmmrph. Be that as it
may. We have come to ded
icate this battlefield as a
fitting memorial to the
light to moderate losses
that our forces have sus
tained over the past 87
years so that my grand
father and his successors
could test the theory that
the way to bring Hanoi to
the peace table was to es
calate further.
It is altogether fitting
and proper that we should
do this, and anyone who
thiDks otherwise is a ner
vous nellie and probably a
traitor besides and simply
helping to prolong the war.
The world will long note
and long remember what
we did here, probably be
cause we will still be long
doing it, but the world
will probably never under
stand WHY we did it.
And frankly, I'm fed up
with that kind of Idiotic
questioning emanating from
the capitals of the w o r 1 d
over the last nine decades!
I don't care why we are
here! The point is we are
here and it's too late to
pull out now!
We are going to stay
here! We are going to es
calate! This unpatriot
ic practice of deferring
grandfathers has to stop so
that we can build up our
troop commitment to 68,
000,000 men. Only then we
will have an adequate
strength ration of 84 to one
necessary to put down this
insurrection.
And as long as I am pres
ident, mah fellow Ameri
cans, I promise you this:
we shall not withdraw, I
promise .that this nation,
under me, shall have a new
birth of conformity (boy
will we shut up those
peaceniks and that govern
ment of consensus, by ma
nipulation for the sake of
saving face shall not perish
from the earth, although
admittedly the population
might.
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1 Campus
I Opinion I
Arndt, Bryan Responsible
Dear Editor:
Judging from the various newspaper reports of the Abel
Hall fire problem it appears that there is much that has
not yet been reported and indeed much which may not
even be apparent to the casual observer.
Trash chute fires have been a recurring problem in the
high rise dormitories ever since the Cather-Pound complex
was opened on the University campus three years ago this
September. This same problem became even more intense
when Abel Hall was opened last year.
There is however a relatively simple solution available.
That solution involves keeping the trash chutes locked at
all times and the placement of trash receptacles at con
venient locations on each floor. These receptacles are then
dumped in the trash chute once or twice each day by the
maintenance personnel.
This method has been used in Selleck Quadrangle at
least since 1960, perhaps longer. In Selleck the trash chutes
are in the maid closets and are never open to the student
residents. The method creates no inconvenience for the resi
dents and involves little additional expense for the Univer
sity. The responsibility for failure to effectively deal with this
problem and for failure to Institute any acceptable solution
must fall squarely on the shoulders of Richard Arndt, di
rector of Abel Hall, and M. Edward Bryan, director of
housing, since authority to take whatever action is necessary
is entirely in their hands.
But this is still not the whole story. The fires give every
indication of being an overt manifestation of a problem which
runs much deeper and is much more difficult of analysis.
That problem stems from the fact that the directors of the
dormitories and most of the administrative staff are persons
who have received degrees in education psychology and
thus typically possess very little administrative ability and
so often no practical perception of people, students or resi
dence halls.
They operate on grandiose theories of how people should
act rather than how people in reality actually do act. Precious
little consolatiion it would be to society if the police were
to stand around and wring their hands and mutter that
people should not commit crimes instead of dealing with
the crimes that certain members of society actually do com
mit. As a consequence this maladjustment manifests itself in
destruction to facilities, In fires (accidental or deliberate),
in lower grades and in a multitude of other ways. This
is labeled as a learning experience by the ed-psych-adminis-trators
and is permitted to continue.
Admittedly students should not destroy dormitory pro
perty, start fires in the trash chute or do many of the
things that they do. But the fact is that they do these
things. Tnjs should elicit a response from administrators
based on something besides wishful thinking. During mv
six years residence in the dormitories and during the
three years which I served on the residence hall staff, I
spoke out strongly against this empty philosophy, but all
suggestions fell on deaf ears.
Dormitory administrators have failed miserably to create
a dormitory environment in proper perspective with the
world which awaits students upon graduation. They have
failed to cope with student problems with understanding and
simultaneously in a manner which is realistic and in har
mony with the surrounding larger communities.
This failure must again fall on Richard Ardnt, direc
tor of Abel Hall, M. Edward Bryan, director of housing,
and the office of dean of men as these are the people
who determine the policies and make the decisions.
Unfortunately the administration shortcomings which
have been brought to light by this problem are becoming
more the rule rather than the exception at the Univer
sity of Nebraska. Undoubtedly the state senators will take
notice of the type of administration which prevails here.
They rightly should. Indeed they may have In the past
considering how poorly the budget has fared in other
legislatures. Tight fisted Nebraska farmers, of all people,
can never be expected to stuff money in rat holes.
John W. Klein
One Of The Real Gals
Dear Editor:
I am certainly glad to notice the interest in women's
problems expressed in your paper. It's about time. Al
though I personally don't know any girls named Bob, Roy
or Bruce, I'm sure there are. y
Otherwise a niave freshman like me would tend to be
extremely suspicious of the radical disapproval of wom-
nHim"' U'S 14 ,ee where U wlth nam
like Bill and Harry and Russ would hate to sign ballots
I'm sure all of these kids choose their AWS represen
X?vVe carefu"y bu hard to understand why
they take their problems elsewhere. In my dam the reps
are taking straw votes for further improving hours and
all sorts of things. The student, who write these letters
and columns profess to be upperclassmen, but they don't
seem to have any more experience in governing themselves
than most boys do.
If they were boys, it would be easier to understand
why they want to take the power away from the women
themselves and return all of it to the administration. It
seems to be almost an exclusively male trait to include
the organization of women, by women, and for women stu
dents in a diatribe against violation of students' rights,
but, bke I sa.d before, these gals seem a little odd any-
Most of the rest ol us would prefer to make changes
?.i? 7ki ? 4pr!Hery! &ur,vo,ce in lelf-government. I my.
self object to the idea of living under rules made by ad.
ministrators chosen by the Regent, or by senators appor
tioned by colleges as opposed to rules made and chanVed
by girls I know and can talk to right in my own living unit.
However I would like to hear what other and better
informed g.rls (that's G-I-R-L-S) have to say on the TSZ
One of the Gals
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