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Schulze Is ASUN President;
PSA Sweeps Executive Posts
A massive electoral turn
out, numbering over 6,000 stu
dents, elected Dick Schulze,
Gene Pokorny and Mi mi
Rose to the ASUN executive
positions for the coming year.
Electoral Commis
sioner Larry Johnson said
that although the following
figures are unofficial as yet,
the Senate ballots have all
been counted and the results
"should hold."
The results of the balloting
on the proposed amendments
to the ASUN constitution and
the advisory board races will
be published in the Daily Ne
braskan as soon as the votes
are tallied.
The unofficial figures are:
President
Dick Schulze (PSA) . .2,744
Ron Pfeifer 2,144
Rich Thompson 636
Wes Cooper (SDS) ....226
First Vice President
Gene Pokorny (PSA) 3,105
Liz Aitken 2,292
George Olivarri (SDS) 274
Second Vice President
Mimi Rose (PSA) ... 2,811
Jerry Olson 2,388
Dennis Bartels (SDS) 452
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Phil RnnrHman PSA) 155
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Senior Staff Writer
PSA views the party's Sen
ate election sweep WednesA
day as an "endorsement ot
its approach to student
government," according to
Gene Pokorny newly-elected
ASUN first vice-president
He expressed satisfaction
with the record voter turn
out saying "people came to
the polls because there was
a choice."
Government "is playing a
bigger part" on the Univer
sity campus, he said, and
from the number of students
who voted "It is obvious the
University is beginning to
realize the affect Senate has
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Bill Tooley 13$
Tnm Greer PSA) 133
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Two Contest Elections;
Charge Dishonest Vote I
I Two defeated candidates who ran on the SDS ticket
I are contesting the results of Wednesday's ASUN election.
I Linda Marchello and George Olivarri have charged g
5 that the election should be declared invalid because of
1 various irregularities including people voting twice, and s
I people using more than one identification card for voting, s
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s Miss Marchello stated that ''certain self righteous
people take moral stands about their fitness to rule and
their 100 per cent Americanism but couldn t even be s
I trusted to vote honestly."
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sham of student government."
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seriously and if they did take it seriously it makes a fur-
ther sham of the entire democratic process, he con-
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One Person-One vote
1 "If people were to do this in state and federal elec-
i tions the American concept of government of the people
1 by the people with each individual having ONE vote would
i become nonsense," he added.
1 The students expressed their determination to go to
1 the ASUN court if the electoral commission rules neg-
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The Bill of Rights vote can
also be attributed to the stu
dent interest shown in the
campaign, he added.
Porkorny termed the cam
paign as "active" and said
it showed a "sincere effort
on the part of all candidates.
New Approach To Government
The manner in which the
"whole campaign was run,"
he commented, shows "stu
dents are ready" for a new
approach to student govern
ment and are now "willing
to spend the time to become
informed and to vote."
Now that the campaign,
which was always active and
"In some sense heated," is
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Mike Naden 127
Albert Felber 94
Al Spangler (SDS) 92
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PSA Approach
over, (he said), PSA "hopes more executive committees
people who wanted change in
the University wiu come to
gether to make Senate more
effective."
One of the first actions of
the new administration will
be the executive appoint
ments, he said. These ap
pointments include offices as
ASUN treasurer, recording
secretary and director of
records.
Interviews for these posi
tions will be conducted next
week.
Senate will also organize
the committee structure with
in the next few weeks, Po
korny continued.
He said ASUN will set up
Plain
fipnree Olivarri (SDS) 62
Frank Dallad (SDS) ....58
Business Administration
(four seats)
Cheryl Adams 298
Tom Morgan (PSA) ...269
Jim Ludwig (PSA) ....268
Terry Grasmick 187
William Glover 177
Sid Logeman 171
David Rasmussen 155
Lindell Klein 143
David Green 140
Randy Irey 109
Jim Guretsky 68
John McCollester 64
Robert Diers 41
Teachers
(eight seats)
Kris Bitner 816
Barb Doerr (PSA) 692
John Hafl (PSA) 667
Jane KHmes (PSA) ... 630
Sue Deitemeyer 630
Helen Larsen (PSA) ...610
Twila Andreasen ...577
Kathy Kuester 499
Sue Williams 479
Ken Hobert (PSA) 456
Ed Bervin 437
Becky Jones 342
Diane Severeide 329
Linda Zimmerman 314
Diane Hicks 238
R. Owen Jackson 230
Linda Marchello (SDS) 156
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t nnprate outside of the ben-
ate. These committees will
give students "who are sin
cerely interested in govern
ment" an opportunity to be
come involved without being
elected to a Senate seat.
. Commit Example
He cited the Student Ad
visory Board committee as
an example of an executive
committee. The committee
elected as senators drafted
the constitutions for the col
lege advisory boards and
helped to make these boards
operative.
Senate will continue the
work of the Legislative Liai
son and Research Committee
this spring, he said and ex
pand the group's function as
a communicator between the
students and the Unicameral
next year.
Implementation Of Bill
Implementation of the Bill
of Rights will have the im
mediate attention of ASUN,
he stressed.
"After we see which ar
ticles were approved by the
students," he said "we will
begin meeting with the facul
ty and administration" to dis
cuss the issues involved in
the Bill.
He added that the Ad Hoc
Housing Committee has com
pleted its final recommenda
tion for housing changes
next year.
Confer With Regents
During the next four weeks
the ASUN executives "will
confer with the Board of Re
gents," he explained, to at
tempt to have these changes
"in effect by next semester."
He suggested the possibil
ity of a "Senate retreat" to
be held later this spring "to
lay the groundwork" for Sen
ate operations next year.
Not Election Phenomenon
Discussing the success of
the PSA party, Pokorny said,
"it was not an election phe
nomenon," but was indicative
that students want to become
more involved to make stu
dent government "m ore
meaningful."
"Because of the size of the
interest being shown in pon
tics," he stated, "parties are
necessary" so issues, rather
than personalities, have prior
ity in student government.
Student Party Function
A student party will func
tion "as a funnel where crea
tive ideas can be channelled
into the Senate," he added.
Students can gain experi
ence in government through
a political party, he said, and
use it as a training ground
for future high Senate posi
tions. He continued that 35 sena
tors should net be the only
people involved in student
- government and they cannot
. do all the work required by
growing Senate.
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HARRISON SALISBURY
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Americans Should unaersuun
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The American public should
be confronted by the potential
outcome of the bombing of
North Vietnam "before it ex
plodes in our face," Harrison
Salisbury, the Assistant Man
aging Editor of the New York
Times said Thursday.
Salisbury, who is consid
ered by many as one of the
best informed American
newsmen, was sponsored by
the Nebraska Union Talks
and Topics Committee.
Personal Observations
Salisbury told some 400 peo
ple in the Nebraska Union
Ballroom of his personal ob
servations of the bombing of
North Vietnam and of the pos
sible outcome of the war.
Salisbury, who visited
North Vietnam with State
Department approval in De
cember and January of t h i s
year, said that he traveled
throughout the co-mtry up to
25 miles north of Hanoi and
100 miles south of the city.
"In evaluating the bomb
ing of the North we must be
gin with what the United
States government hoped to
accomplish with it," Salis
bury said.
"Two years ago we were in
a very difficult situation in the
South and there was genuine
fear that the South Vietnam
ese effort might fall apart."
Drastic Action
"Some of the advisors to
the President recommended
that we take drastic action to
avoid having the entire civil
ian and military effort fall to
the United States," Salisbury
continued.
"The drastic action they
recommended was bombing
the North," he added.
The main reason then for
bombing North Vietnam was
to restore the South's confi
dence in the war effort, Salis
Dtiry said. He gave two other
reasons.
"A secondary purpose in
the bombing was to make Ha
noi more willing to negoti
ate,' he said. "A third rea
son, which was not consid
ered very important at t h e
time, was to interdict the
movement of supplies from
the North to the South."
-"The reason this last rea
son was 'not considered very
significant was that at t h a t
time the movement of sup
plies was very small," Salis
bury added.
Objectives Met?
Salisbury then said he felt
these objectives of the bomb
ing had been met. As to
whether it has stopped the
movement of supplies to t h e
South he said: "If you wanted
a simple answer, I would say
no."
"I saw it mvself," he con
tinued. "All the movement
takes place at night since
American planes cant bomb
then. During the day the flew
of supplies stops while w
bomb."
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points out dangers of war in let Nam.
Should Understand
"To be very frank, my
movements were mostly at
night, too," Salisbury added.
Night Movement
Salisbury said he heard
trains leaving the Hanoi sta-
tion at night but most of t h e
supply movements were
' made by bicycle brigades, he
said.
"This doesn't mean we
haven't slowed the supply
movement down," Salisbury
added. "We've really beat up
those Toads. This is possible
because we are dropping
more bombs on North and
South Vietnam than we were
during World Warn."
Primitiveness Is Advantage
Salisbury felt that the prim
itiveness of North Vietnam
gave them a distinct advan
tage. "There is a paucity of
good things to bomb in North
Vietnam."
"Most of the roads In North
Vietnam are two lane, dirt
roads. Some may have a
gravel survace or a thin coat
of tar," he continued.
"Getting materials to fill
a bomb-hole in a dirt r o a d
are not too difficult," Salis
bury said. "You simply go to
the side of the road, get some
dirt, and throw it in the hole.
It makes a bumpy road but
then the road was bumpy in
the first place."
Bridges
Salisbury explained that
bridges are probably our
number one target in North
Vietnam since they are more
difficult to repair but that the
North Vietnamese have found
a way to get around the ob
stacle of a destroyed bridge.
"They put pontoon boats
across their rivers and t h i s
makes a bridge that will hold
a truck," he said. "It takes
about an hour-and-a-half to
construct a bridge of this
type. The bombing of a bridge
may delay movement this
long but that's about all."
"So far as the particular
aspect of stopping supplies is
concerned, in my mind the
bombing serves no purpose,
he said. "This doesn't mean
the secondary purpose of
slowing down supply move
ments isn't effective."
Bombing Improves Morale
Salisbury said he felt the
bombing had improved the
North Vietnamese morale im
mensely. "The Hanoi govern
ment has capitalized on t h e
bombing to unite public opin-
ion"
"T h e propaganda isn t
based on marxism or commu
nism or anything like that
which doesn't mean anything
to most of the people, but on
ordinary patriotism."
Biggest Asset
Salisbury termed the high
morale in the North as their
biggest asset.
"When 1 was out there the
leaders repeatedly told me
they were prepared to fight
at least another ten years,"
he said. "Ho Chi Minh ha4
told the people the U.S. would
destroy Hanoi and that they
would continue the war from
caves and the jungle."
"This wouldn't be much of
a change in their way of lif
and they accept this possibil
ity," he continued.
''Successful"
The first reason for tomb
ing the North, to strengthen
morale in the South. Salisbury
termed "successful."
"From my way of calculat
ing we haven't gotten enough
out of bombing the North to
make it worthwhile," he said.
"We send in an expensive air
plane worth millions of d o 1
lars and a valuable pilot to
knock out two or threa
trucks."
As to where the Vietnames
war will lead Salisbury said
negotiations were unlikely in
the near future and that our
government has apparently
rejected negotiation feeleri
and was opting for another
round of escalated war.
Dependent of China
Salisbury said the North Is
dependent of China for her
flow of supplies from Russia
and events in China could
jeopardize her ability to carry
out the present type of war al
though "this doesnt mean
they couldn't go back to th a
caves and jungle and resuma
the type of war they have
fought for years."
For this reason Salisbury
felt that Hanoi wanted to ex
plore the possibility of nego
tiations last fall even though
Hanoi knew that China want,
ed them to carry on the war.
"The United States didn't
take up the negotiation offers
Because apparently our lead
ers felt that if we carried the
war on for another six months
we could get better terms."
Dangers
Salisbury said "There are
dangers ir this policy of
which Washington is aware
but the public is not aware."
"There is a very real possi
bility that China will inter
vene in the war," he con
tinued. "Ciiina has proposed
moving in troops in
but Hanoi has
the past
rejected
them."
"Thpv don't want
the Chi-
nese. they are afraid they
wouldn't leave, but they
would accept them under the
threat of a LT.S. invasion,"
Salisbury said.
Expect Nuclear Bombing
Salisbury said that there is
a real danger that the Chi
nese "who are basically in a
paranoid frame of mind,"
might be triggered into inter
vening if the war is escalated.
"They expect an American
invasion and nuclear bombing
of China," he said.
Salisbury also pointed out
the probability of a rap
prochement of Russia and
China when Mao Tse Tung
dies, "which could do us in."
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