ASUN elections
Anyone who has read the platforms of
the various ASUN parties carefully has prob
ably been unable to ascertain much differ
ence between any of them. The Service Party
platform is tactic-oriented, devoting much
space to discussion of methods to attain goals
which are not included in much detail. The
University Coalition platform covers numer
ous ideas in depth with only slight discussion
of tactics.
So what. What would prevent the Ser
vice Party from adopting Coalition ideas if
elected or the University Coalition from adopt
ing Service Party tactics?
ANYONE WHO attended last week's de
bate probably noticed Service Party presiden
tial candidate Ken Wald's superiority with
rhetoric in comparison to Coalition candidate
Steve Tiwald. On this point there is a sharp
difference between the styles and abilities of
these two candidates.
Wald is an accomplished speaker. If
elected, he would serve well as a liaison be
tween students and the Legislature. He would
likewise function well on the Council on Stu
dent Life and might even be able to define
ASUN's role in relation to the CSL. Similarly,
Wald would represent the student body well
in dealing with the Regents. He is not ex
perienced in ASUN, however, despite his
work on the faculty evaluation book, and his
forte is not organization.
Tiwald, on the other hand, is experienced
in ASUN. He has served as National Student
Association coordinator, an organization and
position specifically concerned with services
for students. He handled Time Out and has
worked on Free University. Tiwald is an or
ganizer and has worked hard in ASUN the
past year.
THE QUESTION is what should the
ASUN president be. Should he be a repre
sentative and liaison officer for students, or
should he be an organizer, deeply involved
in the functioning of student government?
Depending on your own conception, there are
two qualified candidates available.
The first and second vp slots are more
clear-cut, and here experience is vital. Dave
Bingham, write-in Coalition candidate for
first vp, is experienced in ASUN and in the
University. He has been a senator, worked
with legislative liaison, and is currently on
a Faculty Senate committee. The Coalition
second vp candidate, Mark Theisen, has
served on ASUN legislative liaison, communi
cations and education committees.
Service Party first vp candidate Bob
Pfeiffer and second vp candidate Sue Lutton
have had no ASUN experience. This is cru
cial; ASUN cannot afford to have a group of
executives groping through the first semester
trying to acquaint themselves with student
government.
ASUN cannot endure a do-nothing year.
With Bingham as first vp and Theisen as sec
ond vp, ASUN would accomplish something.
When you vote Wednesday, vote for Bing
ham, write-in, first vp and Theisen, second vp.
NO PARTY, however, holds a monopoly
on competent senatorial candidates. The Daily
Nebraskan endorses the following candidates
from the Service Party: A & S Emily Cam
eron, Mick Moriarty, Duane Sneddeker, Steve
Williams. Eng. and Arch. Bob Rosenow.
Business Bruce Price.
The following candidates from the Uni
versity Coalition Party: A & S Steve Fow
ler, Rita Watson. Grad. and Prof. Georgia
Glass, Dan O'Connor, Nancy Ryan. Eng. and
Arch. Dan Lawler.
Vote Wednesday.
Jim Pedersen.
'
"We've taken over your office and here's a list of cur demands!"
Not a partisan affair
by FRANK MANKIEWICZ and TOM
BRAD EN
Washington It Is late in the day
for Congressman Gerald Ford, the House
minority leader, to suggest that his attempt
to impeach Supreme Court Justice William
0. Douglas is not a partisan affair.
Ford made it partisan when he sug
gested, prior to the Clement Haynsworth
vote, that if Haynsworth failed he would
call for an investigation of Douglas. But
it is not mere political partisanship which
is at issue. It is ideological partisanship
as well. If the fight gets hot, it will pit
the hard core of American know-nothingism
against the good sense of the country.
IT IS ALSO a little embarrassing for
congressmen who will have to vote against
Ford and in favor of Justice Douglas if
proceedings get that far. They would prefer
not to rave to defend a man who has
chosen to be married four times and who
writes articles for magazines renowned
chiefly for pictures of pretty, if nude,
girls.
Thus, he has given a handle to what
H. L. Mencken once called the American
Bible Belt, an ideological configuration
which Is no longer geographical as well
and whkh claims members In most con
gressional districts.
IT IS TOO bad that personal taste
should permit the know-nothings to Impinge
the record of the court's leading expert
on water law, on bankruptcy and corporate
reorganization, on public power and utility
rate-making and who has, during a years,
gained the reputation among his peers as
the workhorse of the court.
For that matter, the Bible Belt might
be surprised to learn that Justice Douglas
was the author of the decision which
permitted released-time religious Instruc
tions In the public schools, justifying his
view upon the grounds among others
that "this is a Christian nation."
FOR EXAMPLE, "Points of Rebellion, -Justice
Douglas new book, is not a call
for revolution but a catalogue of grievances
which reads for the most part like heated
campaign oratory.
"Explosive political regeneration" Is as '
close as Douglas comes to defining what
he means by revolution. Surely, the country
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
is not ready to suggest that a judge may
not participate in general debate upon the
problems of the time, particularly in
language which has suited Fourth of July
orators as well as John F. Kennedy.
Congressman Ford and his allies are
also making much of the Douglas connec
tion with the Parvin Foundation, from
which he received a salary for some years.
But there is no evidence that he ever
ruled on any cases Involving the foundation
or that the relationship was legally different
from that of Chief Justice Warren Burger,
who received regular payments from the
Mayo Foundation while he sat on the Court
af Appeals. Both Douglas and Burger have
since severed their connections.
IN THE FORTIES and Fifties the
Douglas dissents laid the groundwork for
and foreshadowed the majority opinions of
tlae Sixties, enlarging the protection of the
Bill of Rights.
It is these opinions, enlarging both in
dividual freedoms of speech and religion,
and limiting the power of government In
criminal cases, which have earned Douglas
the emity of the bitter-enders, who also
see an opportunity to take a cheap shot
at what they see as the sinister conspiracy
which shot down Judges Haynsworth and
Harrold Carsweil.
If either of President Nixon's nominees
had been confirmed, Douglas would sit on
the court and the Congress would be silent.
Indeed, if his opinions over the years had
been to restrict the BiU of Rights, Instead
of to enlarge it, he could have married
twice more.
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MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1970
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