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Who's tlw sickest?
Word Is out that five drug-making giants are going
to return $120 million to state and local government
( in repayment for gross overcharges for tetracycline.
On the market since 1953, the tablet has been sold
to the public agencies for up to 40 cents each; manufac
turing cost is 1.6 cents per capsule. (The anti-infection
drug has been sold at $1 each retail.)
It would appear a handful of people (those connected
with American Cyanamid, Olin Mathieson, Upjohn,
Bristol-Meyers and Pfizer) had found a way to make
fantastic profits off others' illlness. The question is:
Is tt the patients or the businessmen who are actually
the sickest?
Dollars and cents
THIS CASE also gives rise to other questions. How
much, for instance, of She huge "defense" appropriations
are going into actual manufacture of missiles, rifles,
bombs and other instruments of destruction? And how
much into the profit columns of Lockheed, etc?
Perhaps some of the vehement defenders of the high
taxes for American military-industrial complex should
consider this aspect of the Vietnam war. If peoples' lives
mean little to them, perhaps dollars and cents will mean
more.
We owe you
We all owe something to the 14 senators who voted
against the constitutional convention to revamp the faulty
ASUN document.
If any of them are running again this spring,
-remember them: Anderson, Boesiger, Cochrane, Collins,
Donat, Kudlacek, Lonnquist, Madson, Rassmussen,
Seeman, Sherman, Tiegler, Thompson, Gilpin.
- Remember to give them a vote of thanks for keeping
ASUN an irrelevant and unrepresentative group. They
certainly deserve something. They certainly don't
: deserve support.
- Shadow-portrait, 1969 Early:
Steve Abort "Some of my friends said I wouldn't
have a chance 'unless I went down to the induction
.center and went through all the motions, so I decided
I to play their game for a while."
Prosecuting attorney (With flourish) "Oh, so it's
a game to you, eh? It's all right for everyone else
to do it, but to you it's just a game ... is that right? "
, (The above is an approximate simulation of a real
happening. It happened right here in Lincoln,
Nebraska.)
A BOY is born to a proud father (the mother,
evidently incidental to the process, is not given prominant
mention). The child is a frail one, and the father fears
he w"l lose his son because of his sicknesses. But
the child survives and grows . up. In the process he
falls in' poppy-love with a young girl, which shows he
has fuUy. recovered from any effects of his childhood
; frailnesses.
But, one day, the son comes and tells his father
it is time he become a real man. No, he is not trying
,to tell his father that he's lost his virginity; in this
' case, he means he's going to join the army. The proud
father is proud.
THEN, another one day, he returns to his proud
: father and says "Dad, let's go have a beer." At this
golden moment the father knows his son has finally
grown, up. At the tavern, he hears the town bully bad
mouthin' his puppy-love sweetheart. As the young man
proceeds to bash the hell out of the bully, the father
; stands by beaming, knowing his frail son is now a
: reaJJIAN.
XThe above is a pale approximation of a record
called "Vance"; it hit the Top Ten and the teeney-bops
lapped it up. That happened right here in Lincoln.)
...
SAN Francisco State President S. I. Hayakawa calls
; campus demonstrators "facists."
Sai Francisco State campus demonstrators call S.
I. Hayakawa a "facist."
(The above really happened. This give the Corn
buskers a 9-8 record and places Cipriano at 0-1.)
""
NEBRASKA basketball coach Joe Cipriano jumps
off the bench at Iowa State and thrills a regional
television audience by having a technical called on him.
An Iowa State player makes the free free throw and
the two teams end the game tied. Inevitably, Iowa
State wins in overtime and Cipriano's Niellsen Rating
goes up four points.
(The above really happened. This gives the Cor
nhuskers a 9-8 record and places Cipriano at 0-1.)
TERRY CARPENTER owns a liquor store. Terry
Carpenter does not own a pot store. So Terry Carpenter
proposes a bill to burn at the stake all pot smokers
'. arid proposes another bill to lower the age of liquor
drinkers. Aroused by this flagrant abuse of the law-making
process, the Nebraska voters rise up in unison and
say,;.", nothing.
(The above really happened right here in Lincoln.
Moral It's okay to get potted, but not on pot.)
NEXT WEEK A shocking expose on the origins
of the word "Spiro."
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editorial staff.
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by Rowland Evans and Robert Novak
Washington in a dramatic turnaround un
thinkable even a month ago, President Nixon is
now gingerly pushing passage of a tax reform
bill in 1969.
The President disclosed his switch Monday
night in a private meeting at the White .House
with the two top tax-writers in the House: Rep.
Wilbur D. Mills of Arkansas, Chairman of the Ways
and Means Committee, and Rep. John Byrnes of
Wisconsin, the committee's senior Republican.
WITH SECRETARY of the Treasury David
Kennedy sitting in, Nixon expressed disagreement
with some specifics suggested by Byrnes a con
servative Republican who is becoming the leading
Congressional firebrand for tax reform. But in
general, the President gave his blessing to Mills
and Byrnes for some kind of tax reform.
Before Monday night's meeting, that same
surprising word had been passed to Congressional
tax reformers by the new high command at the
Treasury. Although it will not have specific recom-
nvendations ready for the Feb. 18 opening of Ways
and Means tax reform hearings, the Treasury says
it will testify before the hearings end probably
in mid-April.
THUS. BOTH EXECUTIVE and legislative
branches are now pushing a' cause that seemed
dead beyond revival as the year began.
Aside from pledging retention of the oil deple
tion allowance, Nixon said nothing about the tax
structure during his campaign. His lieutenants
patronizingly gave that subject a very low priority,
to be considered late in his Administration if
ever.
As for President Johnson, he had denied his
own Treasury team's reform program the status
of a Presidential proposal, despite a Congressional
mandate.
SO GLOOMY was the atmosphere that in late
December Mills, long an advocate of tax reform,
was ready to postpone his long-planned reform
hearings scheduled for early 1969.
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Campus opinion Bill 24 and freedom
Dear Editor:
Concerning your views about the study of
languages at the university level ("Conjugation
Education"): two different questions must be con
sidered. First is the general question of the value
of knowing a foreign language, second is the matter
of language requirements.
No valid argument against the study and use
of a second language has ever been put forward.
Although you have wisely not sought to challenge
the obvious values of such a study, I will
nevertheless present some of them for your con
sideration. FIRST, study of a foreign language brings with
it a greater understanding of one's native language.
A journalism student, for example, becomes more
aware of the structure of the English language,
with obvious benefits for his writing style.
Second, study of a foreign language broadens
one's cultural perspective. An editor, for example,
can gain greater insight into current events by
reading toreign periodicals instead of relying solely
on the pre-digested AP-UPI material, thereby im
proving the quality of his own editorials.
Third in importance is the development of a
skill granted, a difficult acquisition for someone
who is already old at the age of twenty. An educated
man is a disciplined man, one who coordinates
his skills in such a way as to make his contribution
to society. The more skills he acquires, the greater
his contribution.
AND YOU will be the first to admit, I am
sure, that the primary purpose of a university
is the development of educated men rather than
mere specialized cogs in the Great Machine.
The second matter is that of language re
quirements. They exist simply because many
students and high school "educators" are blind
to the above values. Unfortunately, even some of
our colleges at the university lack this insight.
And that a student unlearns a language after his
last exam, is not evidence that the requirement
should be dropped, but that such a student is
really not interested in an education and is at
tending the university for something less than the
highest goal.
Since there are many such students, the
university shows its patience by nudging them with
requirements where their own perspective is nar
row. R .Siding
Dear Editor:
In regard to Student Government Bill No. 24, .
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as the Student Bill of Rights originally stated,
the right and power of student regulation is con
centrated within the students themselves. It is my
belief that a true and equitable government of
students is based on the right of each man (or
woman) to decide for himself (or herself) how
to act in matters not covered by national, state,
or local law.
Campus laws should be rules of efficient opera
tion, not moral codes, and campus organizations
should receive the powers of existence from their
members. Anything bad will no doubt be banned
in state law by Senator Carpenter. The remaining
standards can and should be set by each individual
student for himself.
THE Administration has the right to regulate
my behavior standards because I chose to associate
with an institution which operates under the policy
of in loco parentis. The Administration chose to
give their right of regulation in some areas to
AWS.
ASUN can further my rights by abolishing in
loco parentis, which would mean that neither ASUN
nor the Administration had the right to set jp
rules other than those essential to the mechanical
operations of the institution such as registration
deadlines and thus could not delegate this
authority.
Until this step is taken, I shall consider all
power manipulations irrelevant and immaterial and
vote accordingly.
If ASUN wants my support on any referendum
it will have to be one which returns to my control
the rights and privileges of an adult citizen of
a free society.
IN SHORT, I oppose all student government,
as it is presently set up because it attempts to
speak and decide for me on issues that I and
every other student are or should be fully capable
of speaking and deciding on for ourselves.
The Administration speaks for me on a tradi
tional and legal basis. Rather than substitute a
student government for this snachronostic system
inder the guise of progress, I would prefer to
Tile myself or leave well enough alone.
Janis J. Heim
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reform Mil
What revived both Mills's optimism and the
general prospect for action this year was that
rarity in American politics: a spontaneous grass
roots revolt. Without any organized propaganda
campaign, the middle-class tax-paying public sud
denly rose up in rebellion over giving the govern
ment a good hunk of their weekly paychecks while
millionaires and near-millionaires escape taxa
tion. The much-quoted warning of a tax revolt from
Joseph Barr, Johnson's last Secretary of the
Treasury, was merely new gasoline on a fire
already roaring. With protest mail pouring into
the Hill, Byrnes took the lead in demanding reforms
and Mills scheduled his hearings. The Nixon ad
ministration was late to pick up the demand, but
it has done so.
THERE REMAINS, rightfully, considerable ;
skepticism among tax reformers about how deep
the Administration's desire for the program really
is. Kennedy, a Chicago banker, and his Under
Secretary, Charls Walker (a former spokesman
for the banking industry) are by no means en
thusiastic reformers. Nor is tax lawyer Edward
Cohen, expected to be unveiled this week as Assis
tant Secretary for Taxation, regarded as a zealous
loophole closer.
Moreover, pocketbooks of businessmen who
contributed heavily to the Nixon campaign will
be a direct target once the tax-writers get to the
thorny details in the Ways and Means Com
mittee. AGAINST THIS, however, is the rare agree
ment between Mills and Byrnes on major aspects
of the bill. They both want to crack down on
real estate tax-shelters, tax-exempt municipal
bonds, and tax dodges involving charitable con
tributions, among other abuses. They both want
an increased minimum standard deduction to
discourage taxpayers from itemizing their deduc
tions and thus simplify the tax collection process.
And they both agree the 1969 bill should not attempt
reduction of the oil depletion allowance.
OVERALL, THE most important ally of reform
is the public outcry. If ignored now, Byrnes has
warned the Administration, the tax revolt might
escalate, forcing Congress to legislate in a mood
of hysteria.
(c) 1969. Publishers-Hall Syndicate
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The last-minute propaganda effort by the
American press failed: 1968 will be remembered,
not as the Year We Made It To the Moon, but
as the Year of Rebellion. For those who don't
swallow the old gaff about "we never had it so
good," 1968 was an aesthetic experience, an ex
ercise in euphoria.
- For the rest, the attitude is summed up best
in the sputtering fury of Grayson Kirk and Charles
DeGaulle, of Mayor Daley and S. I. Hayakawa.
THE REBELS didn't really get away with it
They are, as Grayson Kirk said, "transitory birds."
Everywhere they tried it, they got tired or bored
or frustrated or just defeated and moved on to
better things, leaving the Cox Commissions and
the presidential committees scratching their heads
and trying to figure out what happened.
What the rebels did succeed in was knocking
a little hole in the money bin letting a little
fresh air into a world that was choking from
bureaucratic strangulation and industrial pollution.
They quit and went home before it was done,
went back to acid and communes or good gray
business suits, but they left some gaping holes
and some big questionmarks in the establish
ment. The revolt was so general and so thorough
that for a while it looked as if it might almost
catch on in Nebraska. But Nebraska "radicals"
are a little different. They tire more easily, they
become frustrated and tongue-tied at the first
pointed question from Dean Ross or Joe
Soshnik.
PERHAPS Nebraska, the old stomping grounds
of the Populists and Reformists, has sunk itself
too far in conservatism ever to rise again. Perhaps.
But if someone could stir the armchair radicals
and semi-hippies who cower in the dark recesses
of the Union, perhaps even Nebraska could begin
to see the light.
Whatever the results, even Nebraskans have
inherited a good share of "student power" from
their more active brethren in Paris and Morn
ingside Heights.
Whether our milquetoast revolutionaries ever
put that inheritance to work remains to be seen.
We still have ROTC, AWS, no control over student
fees and a publications board, but they are all
anachronisms that could be erased with a little
sustained pressure.
THERE seems to be an air of depression on
campus this semester, a "what-the-Hell" attitude
the carries little of the enthusiasm of the McCarthy
kids or the Cohn-Bendit bunch.
But euphoria is only as far away as an organiz
ed effort to bust up the system, to gain a little
control over our own affairs and a little breathing
room for reform. It's worth a try.
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