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S uppository by Dan Ladely Well folks bend over and grab your ankles and brace yourselves for another of those greased trajectories aimed for that much-travelled, all. familiar dark and hoary hole your butt and mine. Yes, it is that time again and some reaming out is long overdue for us alL This evening I just returned from a meeting of that omnis cient august body the Union Board. We discussed there, among other things, the price of Union coffee. There has been quite an uproar about the re cent raise in beverage price in the Nebraska Union (I used to refer to that buildtag as the "Student" Union, however, I was informed this afternoon that that is incorrect and hereby stand corrected). I suppose it is only natural for people to get uptight about a problem only when it directly affects, them. If the Vietnam war was being fought right here in Amerika, it would have ended years ago. For years the black population has been plagued with the drug problem now that it has moved into white upper and middle class Amerika,. magazines write endless boring features on it, the government inacts more stringent laws to control it and everyone is concerned. The same is true of pollution. Ask any Indian, Black, Mexican- American they knew what pollution was years before it began creeping into the white neighborhoods. So I guess it is only natural that Nebraska students would get uptight about the price of coffee and cokes in the Union. That is the only thing that has happened in the last four years I have been here that has af fected anyone directly. This price increase and the furor that followed reflects a problem which was touched upon at the Board meeting: that there is very little student action involved in running the Nebraska Union. Oh, certainly there is a board and a council of students that sets the policies and the programs of this Union. That is an obvious fact no one can deny. The reason I say there is lit tle or no student action involv ed in the Union operations is because those bodies set up to run the Union do not represent or feel out any factions, organizations or individuals in the University community when those bodies are involved in creating or implementing their policies. There is, at this moment, no representation of any minority groups on either the Union Board or the Union Program Council unless you count the Greeks as a minority group. I think the reaction to the price increases are a good in dication that the feelings or needs of the students are not being met by this Union. To those who feel the price increase unfair and unwar ranted, I give you two choices of action to follow to let the Union Board know your feel ings. First of all, the Union Board meetings are open and that. body invites attendance and participation from non- members to hear their ideas. Go to the next Board meeting witn lorce ana let your grievances be known. Secondly, if the prices do not go down and the Board does not sufficiently answer for their actions and explain the necessity of the price increase simply boycott the Union food services. uo anead and play your cards, study and talk all you want in the Crib, but do not buy any of those high-priced drinks. You can walk downstairs and buy the same amount of beverage from a machine for ten cents, you can drink water or you can go down the street to more economically priced establishments for your liba tion. Some of those places let you have free coffee refills and they don't charge you for ice or water. The Union Board and the Union Program Council are becoming aware of their in adequacies in their represen tation and will more than likely be looking to you for help. There are many other areas that need to be studied im mediately to make this Union a more viable service to students, faculty and the com munity. Without the voice and the heto of the students of this university, the Board will not be able to provide an effective service and we might as well close uo this Union and everyone go downtown. RAPPING Editor, in reference to Jim Pedersen's column in the Daily Nebraskan,- Thursday, April 30, 1970: ' Should a student because of his ''elite status, bo exempt from the laws of our country, such as those against arson, assault, forcible entry and disturbing the peace; or should he be held accountable for his actions as though he is an adult member of our society? James N. Garner Editor, While the Earth Day pro gram perhaps Informed some people of the scientific pro blems of our rapidly deteriorating biosphere, the enormous sociai implications have been overlooked. "Pollu tion control" and other issues dealing with the sources can, at best, only forestall catastrophy. To save the world, we must concentrate on the entire system. Today's technology of af fluence, commercial exploita tion, overproduction and glut tonous consumption In is in compatiable with the survival of the earth. It Is foolish to 'think that capitalistic technology will ever gear Itself to human need or that th government wiH divert FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1970 precious Defense Department money to make our cities viable ecosystems. THE POWER money and, therefore, the government will never meet the ecological crisis. Petitioning them with teach-ins, marches and protests will be far more futile and dangerous than it has been with poverty, women's liberation, Vietnam or civil rights. Ecological reorganisation strikes at the very wallet of world power, for it will be necessary to totally restructure man's environment, an un profitable venture. Being peaceful by nature, a genuine pacifist, I fear we may be forced to burn down the world we've got in order to get a better one. In the face of this, I find it aggravating to see concerned students only debating better ways to bury garbage. The issue is survival . . . Earth . . . Love It or leave it? John B. Dzerk Editor: To people who are trying to find America, and can't find it anywhere. there are people like yourself all over the country. If you want to find America you have to invent America first. Why? Well, because you can discover what doesn't exist, you can only invent it. So fellow America searchers, let's invent America so we can find it whe we want it. Here's a paragraph from Jet Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No 21, February 26. 1970, page 42 on the picture Easy Rider that I wish to share. "Easy Rider, Peter Fonda' classic movie, and how the mad violence visited upon the two principal hippie charac ters, Wyatt and Billy (Fonda and Dennis Hopper) in the end by mindless redneck bigots brought home to white American youth in a most pro found way the kind of terror blacks for centuries have suf fered in the south (and in much of the north), becau.se blacks, like hippies, are different and therefore a threat. Mike Randall pyii tf AtfH w GlTY I WHAT 0 VK A Its gf fc- I caijuya iiui nay T J jy J yjj that they've do- Tn I I signed mum-width I I I stripe cotton shirts I 1 I that are the I I greatest in no-non- I i I sense colors. I 1 Buy you Gant at J L not that Gant enjoys hurting zebras . . . it's just that they've de signed rnulti-width stripe cotton shirts that are the greatest in no-nonsense colors. Buy you Gant at Brandeis today. And forgive us zebras of the world! 9.00 and 10.00. Paddock Shop Y ; . 1' , I' 15 ft i i i I THE DAILY NEBRASKAN PACE 5 .