THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1969
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Now, in live color
-Three years ago hearings of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, chaired by Sen. J. W.
- Fuibright, told Lyndon Johnson that the country
"wasn't behind his waging of the war in Vietnam.
The same committee has scheduled hearings
for the week of Oct. 27 that may well tell President
Rfchard Nixon the same thing. Nixon, who has
said several times in recent weeks that he will
lidt' be swayed by campus or citizen anti-war
demonstrations, will have to listen this time,
whatever the outcome.
Plans are being made to televise and broadcast
these bearings, a boon to observers on all sides
of the Vietnam question. Testimony should help
the wavering form opinions, let supporters and
opponents know who's -on their side and what's
being said at high government levels.
It is a unique opportunity to observe official
Washington first hand, an opportunity not to bt
nrfssed.
Holly Rosenberger, editorial page assistant
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Your student government acted this week with
a bit more propriety than last. Except when Senator
Cochrane made a bit of a fool of himself making
an impassioned defense for a bill that wasn't even
being discussed and an abortive try by the leaders
of the once strong Electorate 69 party to financially
hamstring the Faculty Evaluation committee.
Senate meetings were held as well as could be
hoped.
There was one bill of Importance Introduced.
A senator suggested a formula by which a system
of inquiry could he set up to call to account the
spending of $26,000 that Senate rather freely
allocated to various committees and groups last
week.
However, this bill was put off until next week
because a few senators thought it would be "pater
nal racism" to possibly have put Senate in the posi
tH of asking the Afro-American Collegiate Society
what it was going to do with the thousand dollars it
was given last week.
These senatirs wanted the bill rewritten to ex
clude this group from possible scrutiny.
'-Now as long as I remain a single man I hop
not to be paternal and I don't believe I'm racist;
I clso feel the thousand dollars is certainly deserved
and I'm sure it will be well and responsibly spent,
but I do think it makes good business sense to
have a system in which checks and balances are
utilized especially when you consider the amount
of money Senate now has to spend.
I would not like to set a precedence under
which first one group and then another could
possibly spend money for things other than for
what it was allocated. Next Wednesday it will
be Interesting to see if a majority of senators
will consider, what I see as a logical and prudent
system, to be racism.
I have another area of concern in the new
Council on Student Life. I believe that this com
mittee within a year will be far more powerful
than ASUN and as powerful as the faculty senate
and Administration, at least in certain areas.
I am presently serving on the selection com
mittee for the CSL and having scanned the list
of applicants I feel that a good number of the
students applying are doing so for ulterior motives
ranging from gunning for another activity to
wanting to assert "student power" and "putting
the Regents in their place" and unless more In
terested people apply I'm afraid these types of
persons will dominate the CSL.
I for one feel that it does not take a long
list of activities or a "bleeding heart to right the
wrongs of all students" to qualify for the CSL,
but instead an intelligent mind and willingness
tn work logically and reasonably to a conclusion
for-the many problems that will face this new com
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Sen. Edmund Muskie
House moves in right direction
The House of Representatives has voted to
reform our method of choosing a President. By
a vote of 339 to 70, the members of the House
decided to launch a change which was long over
due. The overwhelming margin confounded the cyn
ics and caught President Nixon off base. He had
said he believed in change, but he doubted that it
could be done and he wasn't ready to risk pushing
for popular election. However, last week he threw
his support behind the measure.
Under the proposed constitutional amendment
adopted by the House, a candidate would have
to receive at least 40 percent of the popular vote
to be elected President. If no candidate received
a majority or that plurality there would be a run-off
election between the two top candidates.
House approval for popular election of the
President marks another step toward a more
democratic society, which the Constitution promised
but could not deliver instantaneously.
The Founding Fathers and our early national
leaders felt compelled to protect the Interests of
the smaller states against the power of the larger
states. They also distrusted the capacity of men
without property or means to make sound
Judgments on public policy. (They did not trust
women with the vote at all). Even Jefferson,
champion of the people, distrusted the "mobs"
of the cities. The drafters of the Constitution met
their concerns by leaving the selection of senators
and electors to state legislators.
The Founding Fathers also distrusted political
parties, or "factions" as they called them. This
was not surprising. Self-government, based on a
broad franchise, unattached to a hereditary
monarchy, and exercised over such a broad
geographic area, had not been attempted before.
In addition, the spectacle of British political parties
In the latter half of the eighteenth century leaders,
struggling to establish an Independent nation in
apite of external threats and Internal dissension,
should not be a barrier to popular election of
the President any more than it was a barrier
to the change to popular election of the Senate
in 1913.
The Electoral College Is more than a hindrance
to the popular will; It is an uncertain and increas
ingly dangerous method for the selection of the
most powerful public official in the free world.
The example of the "faithless elector" from
North Caarolina, who cast his vote for George
Wallace in spite of the fact Mr. Nixon had won
the popular election in North Carolina, should serve
as a warning of how subject to manipulation and
distortion the Electoral College is.
The Electoral College is a device for giving
the popular victor in each state all the electoral
votes in that state. The electoral votes are divided
In proportion to the state's representation in Con
gress. It was designed to protect the small states,
but statistical stdies have revealed that the large
states not the small benefit from the Electoral
College.
Advocates of electoral reform have argued for
years that the President Is the leader of all the
people, not a composite of conflicting State In
terests. If the President Is to lead the nation he
must repesent the will of the people and not be
the product of manipulation in a complicated and
archaic election system.
There is a new urgency in the drive for electoral
reform because of the dangers of manipulation
in the system and the increasing divisions In our
society. We are beset by assaults from the left
and the right, and by suggestions that national
electoral majorities can be built on sectional In
terests. The Senate must act, this year, and the states
must act to ratify popular election of the President
if we are to exercise our free and popular will
in choosing the President in 1972.
by J. L. Schmidt
A Flying Burrito is;
A. A hot dish made with beans and corn meal
B. An imported circus act from Tijuana
C. A General in the Mexican Air Force
D. A country music group that'll amaze you
E. None of the above
Choose D, pass go and collect thirty seven
minutes of contemporary country blues that'll make
you run right out and look over thhe c and w
election at your favorite record store.
Better known as Chris Ethridge, Chris Hillman,
Gram Parsons and Sneeky Pete, The Flying Burrito
Bros, and A and M recording artists who have
put together a pleasingly mellow blend of sad steel
guitar and popular electronic moods into an album
called The Gilded Palace of Sin.
Parsons plays rhythm guitar, keyboard in
struments, and does most of the vocals, many
in duo with Chris Hillman, who plays rhythm guitar
and mandolin. Ethridge plays bass and piano and
Sneeky Pete plays steel guitar and dominates most
of the mood with his stylings.
Cut one on side one is titled "Christine's Tune"
but as such, there is no mention of her name.
The song should actually be called "devil in
disguise" since that is the dominant theme line.
At any rate, it is a good indication of the general
mood of the album.
Cut two is "Sin City" and has the first inkling
of a moral message when it talks about the "gold
plated door on the thirty first floor which won't
keep out the Lord's burning rain."
"Do Right Woman" is the first of a series
of songs about the lament of the jilted lover, a
dominant theme in country music since the year
one. This song falls right into the next one, "Dark
End of the Street", a story about two lovers who
are lurking in shadows until "time takes its toll
for the love we stole."
'My Uncle" talks about a letter from the draft
board which is "cause to run and hide to soma
foreign border where they don't need this kind
of law and order." In essence, the song asks what
the debt is that is so great that he (Uncle Sam)
wants me to sign a three-year contract.
"Hot Burrito" Parts 1 and 2 feature Gram
Parsons on vocal and Popeye Phillips on drums.
They mention absolutely nothing about food, but
instead run the full gamut of human relations.
In part 1, the male is lamenting the cheating
lover who "used me like a toy." In part 2 the
tables are turned and the male tells his love that
he is going to start messing around too. "I loved
you baby, but that's the way it goes."
"Do you know how it feels" brings another
moral about the person who is frowned upon by
society as; "did you ever try to smile at some
people, and an they ever seem to do Is stare?"
The final cut of the album, "Hippie Boy" Is
a five minute put-down by Chris Hillman and tha
Hot Burrito chorus. It tells of a young hippie boy
in Chicago who was found dead with a dollar
bill crumpled in his hand, a dollar which he had
earned delivering a package during "all the mesa
that was there last summer."
The moral of this song is stated as "It's tha
same for every hippie, bum or hillbilly, remember
the little boy never carry more than you can eat."
With that the chorus sings "Peace In the Valley'
and the album is done.
One is left with a feeling of confusion about
the sincerity of the last number, but this is soon
put out of mind by the fine styling of the other
songs, the true country sound, the sound which
has been around but people have always been
to quick to put down as uncultured.
Let the Flying Burrito Bros, entertain you and
Introduce you to a new bag In listening.
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Dear Editor:
The war to Vietnam con
tinues. Each week mora than
one hundred Americans die In
this senseless conflict Each
week uncounted thousands of
Vietnamese die. In spite of
token troop withdrawals and
occasional flights of rhetoric
about a new Asian policy, our
country continues a bankrupt
policy in pursuit of
discredited goals.
la 1968 we worked tor a
change in American policy,
la 1969 we have waited pa
tiently for a sew admlnistra
tloa to accomplish the
change that It promised. We
hava waited la vain.
The time has coma that we
must again publicly display
our feelings about this tragic
war. Wa call on our friends
and neighbors, faculty and
students, businessmen and
housewives, to join In a na
tional "moratorium" o n
business-as-usual on October
IS. By wearing an arm band
and participating m tha other
events cf the day you will
show your support for a
policy ef peace In Viet
Nam.
Faculty Members
Dan W. SchUtt. Edgar A.
Pearlstem. William B.
Campbell. Jehu W.
Weymouth. D a a a Jaecks.
raul Flakier, Robert G.
Fuller, physics.
Bud Narveson. Charles
Mlgnon, Michael D. Rlchter,
Scott Morgan, G. Lynn
Nelson, Thomas Bewtul, David
Hlbler, Robert S. duller. Art
Monson, JoAnna Lathrop,
Mordecul Marcus, Oljja Step,
anea. James McShane, I).
Cubindra. Beth Ityon, Betty
DavU, Cater Chimbltt,
Susan Yates, Jim Roberts,
Herb Hove. F. M. Link. Paul
Powell.
Robert BerKstrum. Gerry
Brookes. J. K. Fisher, I).
Cunningham. James lieuley,
Hugh Luke, George K. Wolf,
Helen Graham, James S.
Hedges, Michael Llberman,
Rochelle Roth, John (iruo
fleld. Larry Shunutwn, Linda
Pratt, Lee Lemon, John
Harwood, Robert Blbbt-e.
Lawrence Wolfley. Gilbert B.
Kelly, Stephen Milliard.
Harry Bruder, Barbara
Legg, Suzanne Murd n k. John
Stratton, A. Robin Bowers,
English.
Charles Wllklas.
chemistry.
Ivan Volgyes. politliul
science.
Harry P. Shelley. MicNe!
Warshvfsky. David Leiite.
Monte M. Page, Eugene F.
Malfkl. Charles It. Havwuod.
James Schuh. AnVen G men
del. Steven Scwtt, psychology.
Cedric Svuns, William G.
Suavely, James Kubburt,
NelHon Potter, Steven II.
Vons, Edward F. Becker,
Robert E. Dewey, William
Saints, philosophy.
R. E. Gilbert, chemical
engineering.
Lester Lipsky, computer
science.
Phillip II. Scrlbner, Cen
tennlal Education Program.
Albert Schreklnger, Patri
cia Thelmer, Beverly Tom
have, Ezra Kohn. Donna
Crumpucker, social worker.
Lloyd Jackson, Dale M.
Meaner, mathematics.
Charles Lamphear, Wallace
C. Peterson, Loren Casement,
J. R. Keltort. economics.
Robert II. Stoddard,
Churlel Sargent, geography.-
Alan Booth, J. S. tloyd.
Joseph Julian, Alan Bates.
Clyde Nuna, Ralph
Blankenshlp, Jack Slegman,
Harry J. Crockett Jr.,
N I c h o 1 as B a b c h u k ,
sociology.
James A. Elsenlrager.
Keith Jacobtthagen. Duard
Laging. Ray E. George
James Allinder, art
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Dear Editor:
The war lasted for a
decade, millions died fighting
the Invaders, nation after
nation fell beneath the In
vader's military machine,
and it exploited these people
mercilessly by means of
corrupt puppet leaders.
Guerilla leaders and their
men, with those sympathetic
to their cause, joined forces
to prepare the people for
liberation. They organized
sabotage teams who would
strike when the time was
right. Meunwhile, they
assassinated the oppressors
whose racist policies
destroyed millions.
Then the unconqtiered na
tions retaliated; they began
to defeat the gradually
crumbling military machine.
The once mighty conqueror
would not relent until totally
crushed, his exploitation did
not cause until he was de
feated by the guerillas and
the free peirples.
This was Hitler's European
fortress. Could it be the
United States of America?
Charles M. Uulrjmple
Dear Editor:
Last Wednesday ASUN
passed a resolution concern
ing the Vietnam Moratorium.
The resolution read as
follows:
the United
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Whereas,
States Is Involved in
tragic war in Vietnam
despite peace efforts by
the Nixon Administration.
Whereas, the Nixon Ad
ministration is apparently
unaware of the magnitude
of broud based opposition
to the war in this country,
therefore
BE IT RESOLVED; that
all students and faculty
members of the
University, and people of
the community of Lincoln
are urged to participate
In the events of October
15, Vietnam Moratorium
Day.
BE IT FURTHER
resolved; that all
students are specifically
'urged to Join In a vigil to
mourn the Vietnam War
dead to be held the after
noon of October 13.
The senate unanimously
passed this resolution as it
appears above and very
strcngly urges all students to
participate. The senate's
position was not "that the
resolution calls for no action
on the part of the student" as
wus reported in The Dully
Nebruskan.
Protest has had a dynamic
impact upon society in the
past few years and has even
crept into the United States
Senate. We have the right to
protest and if we stand by
and allow this war to con
tinue, our silence condemns
us. The National Vietnam
Moratorium offers an op
portunity for us to voice our
dissenting opinion. It is far
past time, but not too late,
for us to assert ourselves
against the war.
Daa Lawlor,
Student Senator
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Editor:
Congratulations! You
almost lost a steadfast
reader of "Tha Dally
Nebraskan." I was very
nearly a shock fatality after
reading your Sept. 28 Issue.
Luckily I had several back
issues to pad the falL
The ROTC editorials in
that issue were a prima
example of both sides of an
argument given equal and
just representation by two
competent Individuals.
If this Is a trend, keep It
up. I, for one, am all for It,
BiU Garthrlgbt