You'll never tire of unieycles
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BELIEVE IT OR DONT. Nebraska students are
getting their kicks by riding unieycles. Goes to
show you've got to be a big wheel to have a
, good time.
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by DAVE BRINK
Nebraskan Staff Writer
Unlcyclists spoke up this
Blocker and Mike
Vanous, NU students who are
frequently seen pedaling their
cycles around campus, say
single wheel riding is much
easier than commonly believed.
Many onlookers urge Vanous
to "join a circus." Blocker
reports curious bystanders
often ask to try his cycle even
though, "half of them think I'm
nuts." Both find everyone
wonders how difficult a unicye
Is to ride.
Blocker says anyone who is
used to a bicycle can learn
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1970 LINCOLN. NEB. VOL. 94, NO, 9
Regents work to counter
effects of disturbances
News Analysis
by GARY SEACREST
Nebraskan Staff Writer
The specter of last May's
disturbances on the Lincoln
Campus still haunts the Board
of Regents after nearly five
months.
The May unrest sent
Shockwaves across the entire
State and the Regents have
been working overtime to try to
restore the public's confidence
in the University.
Since May the Board has
taken a firm "law and order"
position to counter the effects
of last spring's disturbances.
The Regents are especially
concerned with the image of
the University because the
YAF criticizes ASUN
by STEVE STRASSER
Nebraskan Staff Writer
S e v enty-three University
students have decided "radical
extremists" have gone too far
in America and pLan to do
something about it, according
to Terrell Cannon, chairman of
the NU chapter of Young
Americans for Freedom
(YAF).
YAF is a group boasting
55,000 members in high schools
and colleges across the country
Cannon said. The organization,
founded in 1960, has doubled in
size in the last two years. YAF
leaders attribute the growth to
their firm opposition to campus
violence.
In addition to its anti-left ac
tivities, the group works for
conservative candidates and
carries out extensive educa
tional campaigns, Cannon
said.
YAF criticism of the
Nebraska campus centers on
ASUN and the use of student
fees. "ASUN uses student fees
to play partisan politics'
Cannon said. "For example,
the National Student Associa
unicycling.
Vanous adds that unkycles
are safer than two-wheelers
because "you tend to fall on
your feet" rather than more
tender parts of the body. He
also says it's about twice as
fast as walking but "a lot of
work" to go fast the rider
"starts bouncing" as if on
horseback.
Gymnastics coach, Francis
Allen, gave Blocker a
somewhat worn unicycle this
summer. He has been riding a
friend's cycle, though, for
about two years.
Under the influence of a
morning hangover, Vanou3,
who has been riding since June,
D
governor-elect and the rural
dominated Legislature will
soon be deciding the size of the
University budget. The state's
voters will also be deciding the
fate of the Regents in the
November elections.
Undoubtedly the May unrest
will not help the University
when it presents its budget
case before the Legislature.
And the University will need all
the help it can get to influence
the economy-minded
Legislature.
The Regents two weeks ago
approved a bold $199.6 million
University budget for the 1971
73 bieimium which is designed
to help build the state and
bring NU to the top of the Big
Eight academically. The
tion (NSA) Is a partisan
political group. Our affiliation
with NSA means that NSA can
claim this University's sup
port." He says most YAF members
he has talked to agree,
"partisan student governments
created the Cambodian crisis.
President Nixon didn't.
"Student fees should not be
used to pay any kind of
political speaker, left or right,"
Cannon continued. "This
Bayh here Thursday
Senator Birch Bayh, (D-Ind.), currently leading the
Senate fight for a constitutional amendment providing for
direct election of the president, will speak at the Nebraska
Union Ballroom Thursday at 3:30 p.m.
Bayh authored the 25th constitutional ammendment
which deals with presidential inability and vice-presidential
succession and wrote the amendment now pending.
Bayh was elected to the Senate in a 1962 upset when he
defeated 18-year incumbent Senator Homer Capeheart by
less than 11,000 votes out of more than 1.8 million cast
The Democratic Senator won easy re-election in 1968
In spite of the Indiana landslide for Nixon.
spent $40 on his shiny new
Schwinn. He said it required
only four weeks of practicing in
dormitory halls to become a
competent rider. Blocker
claimed he could balance the
cycle after two hours of prac
tice. Although this reporter didn't
really believe them he climbed
on the contracption and shoved
off. With nothing to grasp but
the wall and hope unieycles
have no handlebars he
finally traveled about five feet
before making a graceless fall
as the infernal thing skittered
away. '
Learned in two hours?
Hmmmmmmmm.
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University is asking the
Legislature for S3 per cent
more state funds than it is
receiving in the current bien
nium. The Regents also face a vote
of confidence in the November
elections. Two Regents, Dr. B.
N. Greenberg of York and
Richard Adkins of Osmond, will
be seeking re-election and two
new Regents will be elected.
Regardless of these elections,
the Board could follow the path
of the Edsel this November.
The Board of Regents will be
eliminated if Nebraska voters
approve a constitutional
amendment to establish a
single Nebraska board of
higher education.
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tramples the rights of non
political students. Speakers
should be paid from door
receipts or by the groups in
viting them."
The Nebraskan also comes
under Cannon's fire. "Students
should not have to pay for a
partisan paper they don't
read," he said. "There Is no
such thing as a non-partisan
paper, but students should not
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