I hear you talking, but . .
Almost a month ago, a Nebraskan editorial
entitled "Is YAF still a laugh?" called the pro
grams of Terry Cannon (president of Young Amer
icans for Freedom) "more of an egoistic effort to
exert power than an attempt to institute construc
tive change." This charge seems increasingly ac
curate as the weeks pass and YAF fails to do any
thing but write press releases.
Of the three programs they've touted this
year, YAF has produced nothing but publicity on
its newspaper and on legal action to halt the use
of student fees. One effort did grow beyond the
embryo of a thought, though it growth was admit
tedly stunted. That was the blue button distribu
tion campaign to demonstrate opposition to "the
violence and terrorism of our nation's new Nazis,
the radical left-wing militants who believe in no
one's rights but their own."
Some call the campaign a success and point
proudly to the fact that there has been absolutely
no violence on the Nebraska campus this fall but
others with a more discerning gaze note that the
Campaign came to an abrupt halt just after it
received film coverage on KOLN-TV. Perhaps Can
non, having evaluated the Button success, dis
covered that an organization doesn't have to actu
ally do anything to receive publicity, it merely
has to announce its intentions and that is all that
YAF has done about its last two projects.
Claiming that "a paper isn't that hard to get
together," Cannon announced YAF's intentions to
publish six weeks ago and, noting that they had the
funds and the press, said "We'll print as soon as
we get organized." Four weeks ago Cannon pre
dicted that a paper would actually appear "maybe
next Tuesday, maybe the Tuesday after that"
Some now despair of YAF's ever getting "organ
ized" and think that Cannon, having gotten a pub
licity splash from the proposed paper, will never go
to the pains of publishing it.
Almost four weeks ago, Cannon announced
that YAF would seek an injunction "to end the
abuse of student fees for political purposes by a
small minority of radicals" and said that the legal
action would probably occur after the November
elections. This proposal to freeze the use of student
fees has since been denounced as absurd by re
sponsible members of both the right and the left,
but several have wondered why Cannon announced
his intentions so far in advance.
The reason probably lies in the fact that Can
non attended a YAF convention in Iowa within a
week of the announcement and could use the pro
posed injunction about as effectively as one that
had actually been filed. There is some speculation
that the injunction-to-be was the boost Cannon
needed to be elected state chairman for YAF but
there is greater speculation that YAF, having
wrung the announcement for all its publicity value,
would soon drop it.
Cannon's irresponsible actions have prompted
the formation of a splinter group of YAF which
will probably be known as the Lancaster County
YAF. Indeed, the most destructive result of Can
non's actions (nor non-actions) may be the dis
crHitig of responsible conservatives rather than
1' " 'i- ' the "small minority of radicals"
" ises.
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"HIT 'EM AGAIN! HIT 'EM AGAIN! HARDER! HARDER!"
by Country Ted
There is a lot of Idle talk going on
these days about "time." It's one of
these terms so often glibly flipped from
the tongues of young dandies and
debutantes, when, I fear, there is little
real understanding of the concept. Ah,
how many of us are guilty of having
asked "What time is it" without realiz
ing the implications of our words. Today
I'm going to try to cloud the air a
little bit on the subject of Chronology
asking "How much do we really know
about 'Time'?"
That there is a lot of ambiguity
around, regarding Chronology, becomes
evident as soon as we begin asking
that common but misleading question;
"What time is it." Besides the whole
range of O'clocks and half pasts there
is an unlimited number of such as:
"It's time. you got off your butt and
did something," or "It's time for a
new governor," or "It's time out here
at Wrigley Field."
That the true nature if Time is illusive
is evident in that we always speak of
it in terms of something else. One of
the most common of these substitutes
is the rising and setting of the sun.
(To show that this measurement is not
entirely satisfactory it may well be noted
Letters
Blackman, wake up
Dear Editor,
Spiro Agnew is quite a clown,
but that state he's from is fun
nier (Maryland).
There are a myriad of
reasons why the Blackman
shouldn't risk his life for this
country, but the ridiculous in
sulting example displayed by
Baltimore, Maryland is enough
to make a Blackman burn this
country along with his draft
card.
This article was in JET
magazine October 29, 1970, vol.
xxxix, No. 4.
RACISTS SHOOT UP HOME;
GI ORDERED FROM
VIETNAM
Following an old-fashioned
vigilante raid on his home in
Baltimore (Md.) County, a
Black Army officer was
ordered from Vietnam on
emergency leave to protect
his wife and children. Maj.
Moses A. Cain, 36, returned
to his family after several
bullets were fired into their
rented home in a mostly
white community. Mrs.
Cain, wlio was asleep with
her five cliildren when the
. shooting started, told
policemen that she heard
the late-niglit noise but
thought it was a car
backfiring. The next morn
ing, she said, she found a
spent slug on a staircase
and two outside a living
room window.
The shots were apparently
fired from a moving vehicle.
Commenting on the attack,
Maj. Cain said he definitely
thinks Uie shooting was
racially motivated, but that
It hadn't intimidated him.
"We're looking for a new
THE NEBRASKAN
house," he said, "but we
haven't made up our minds
to move. Finding a decent,
four-bedroom house for rent
around here isn't easy."
When one goes to war,
against any enemy, he
should make sure he's war
ring against his true enemy.
For it may cost him his life,
liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness.
Michael C. Randall
P.S.:
BLACK G.I. in VIETNAM
Why, Black G.I.
Why?
Why do you fight
Two wars for the price
Of one?
Son of a gun
You fight more than
One!
The war is not a crypt
It can be cracked
Get hep!
Deny yourself the war,
Because you're poor
And freedom's a closed door.
It's a bore
To fight a war
To give freedom a core
Where people want no more
Than to be sure
That their stomachs arc
not sore.
Don't you bare
The whitemans' warfare,
Lest he share
Your welfare!
Sanjulu
Support PACE
Dear Editor:
The Innocents Society sup
ports the Program of Active
Commitment to Education
(PACE). We hope tot PACE is
successful In helping more low
income and minority students
to further their education.
Ken Wald, President
Innocents Society
Letters
Beating dead horses
Dear Editor:
I would like to respond to Mr.
Kincaid's claim that ASUN as
it Is presently constituted is
representative of the student
body. I think that a good look
at the facts of last spring's
election will test out the
validity of such a conclusion.
The present ASUN was swept
into office on a base of 14 (is
this representatrve?) of the
student electorate. The com
bined totals of Mr. Tiwald's two
opponents, Ken Wald and
Ralph Pfeiffer, was substan
tially greater than Mr. Tiwald's
rousing 900 votes, which Mr.
Kincaid puts such great stock
in. This is about 4.5 of the
total student vote for Tiwald.
As the Yfppie Party philosophy
of last spring goes it's not
that 900 voted for Tiwald, but
rather, 19,100 didn't
Mr. Kincaid states that, "we
had our chance." Did we?
There was no "conservaUve',
fiarty last spring no choice,
nstead three very alike, me
too liberals ran almost iden
tical campargns. On traditional,
student pleasing platitudes
such as a student record store,
promised day-care centers,
more voice for ASUN, etc.,
thoy succeeded as in past years
to put the majority of student
asleep; enabling one of them
(in this case Tiwald) to sneak
in quietly as the apathetic
masses watched.
Mr. Tiwald, In his campaign
gave no indication of the role
he now attempts to play. Also,
Mr. Tiwald was elected before
the student strike, which in
creased student political
awareness on the national,
state, and campus level. 900
Letters
voted for Mr. Tiwald then. How
many wouid now? How many
have had second thoughts? I'm
sure Mr. Tiwald both gained
and lost support (my inclina
tion leads to the latter) over his
flagrant support of the strike,
his vociferous denunciations of
Nixon and our nation's policy,
and his attempts to use his of
fice and Influence, and the
name of the NU student body
for radical political purposes.
nas the ASUN lately at
tempted to sample student
opinion on these matters? Cer
tainly no one from ASUN has
come to ascertain my views.
However, they know how I
stand so by their form of logic I
don't count. By not voting in
last spring's election 86 of the
student body surrendered their
right to criticism. We "had our
chance" to speak out now
last spring. We don't exist for
them. We're all part of that
"great silent majority" which
everyone knows is just a fig
ment of some of our more con
niving politican's imagination.
It is indeed sorrowful that in
the past the greater majority of
students on this campus have
been extremely apathetic con
cerning campus politics.
However as the song goes,
"timcs-arc-a-changlng."
Large segments of this
University, led by the Young
Republicans and other groups
such as CUE, IPA, YAF, and
IRS are moving to organize this
majority, and there will almost
certainly bo a resonsible con
servative party running for
ASUN In the spring. Then let
there be the true test. It is a
shame that people such as Mr.
Kmcald seek to stifle and
discredit our young, growing
attempts at expression. If we
be the real "vocal minority"
then they should have nothing
to fear!
Douglas G. Vocgler
Dear Editor,
In response to Tim Kincaid's
letter in the Nebraskan on Nov.
9:
Now really Tim, How Could
You?! President Tiwald has
been embarrassed enough
about being a 5 President,
since his 900 votes (906 to be
exact) which elected him last
spring represents only 5 of
the student body. You just had
to go and bring it up again!
I further note that several
senators, Including Sen. Nancy
Ryan, polled 100 votes or less,
.5 of the student body, which
might be construed by
reasonable men to mean a .5
SENATE. It Is ironic that
among those who received the
fewest votes the most vocal
leaders are to be found.
And, horror of horrors, you
Indicated that the CUE
.chairman may have received
only 20 votes or so. But, since
neither you nor I are members
of this organization, we have no
way of knowing for sure.
In a private Interview the
CUE chairman, Mr. Robert
Vlasak, informed me that he
had received around 75 of the
vote in his club (taken by show
of hands) and even he isn't
sure how many that is since the
group is growing so fast He
estimates their membership
does not yet exceed 500. This
means he Is a 75 President,
which blatantly points out he is
the most representative official
around.
Best,
Michael Egger
that Victoria was Queen of England for
64 years and still has a hand in
Wesleyan Women's Hours, yet she never
reigned an entire day; for then, at least,
the sun never set upon the British Flag.
If years are the accumulations of days,
how indeed can she be said to have
reigned 64 of them? And still, our history
books are full of such poppycock.)
To investigate this notion about the
sun, I had the pleasure to lead a Mount
Mulberry Institute research team to
Greece for an interview with the foremost
authority: Apollo. We found him in
Delphi at an all-night car wash sudsing
down his chariot.
"You're really shining that buggy up,"
I ventured, "What's the occasion?" "I've
got a date with a hot little Alpha
Omega; her name's Coronis," said
Apollo. "We were wondering," one of
my colleagues searched for a beginning,
"So many people depend on you in mat
ters concerning time; do you suppose
you could fill us in a bit as to what
it really is?" "I'd like to help you
fellows," he said, "but my watch stop
ped a little while ago." "No, we mean,"
I explained, "Could you tell us what
you think makes your system so at
tractive, what makes it tick?" "Well,"
said the sun God, "I used to think
it was a simple idiot attraction for things
that go round and round; you know,
like electric trains, but, now I'm thinking
maybe it has to do with a desire for
order. I think people like me because
I make my rounds pretty regularly once
a day." "Ooops," said Apollo, "I'd better
get over to the Alpha Omega house
and pick up my date, and, please don't
let my sister Diana hear I'm taking
this girl out; If she found out, she'd
have an eclipse!" "Good-by," we said,
"have a good time."
I simply hope this lesson has helped
make you aware of how really little
we know about "Time" In the ridicu
metaphysical sense. As far as I'm con
cerned, I think it's about time we quit
abusing this concept. If we stopped
throwing the notion around today, it
would be none too soon!
Possibility Man, as fond of villains
as he is of honest people, dropped in,
one day, to see his friend Ad-man.
"Hiya, how's tricks!" said Possibility
Man. "Up to the same old," replied
the wily Ad-man. Being both metaphysi
cians to the world's real and imagined
spiritual ills, they understood each other
and their conversations rarely came to
blows. Possibility Man once told Ad-man,
"Everything is sacred." "Nothing is
sacred," replied Ad-man. "You nihilist!"
Possibility Man accused his bosom
enemey. "Of the proudest sort," said
' Ad-man, calmly. They understood each
other.
"You know," began Possibility Man,
"I was reading a druggists' trade
magazine in "Love" Library the other
day, and I see you've come up with
a new product for the hair called 'Skinny
Dip. I was wondering as long as you
are so intent in iconeclasticising, why
haven't you come up with such promis
ing products as 'God's Grace Foot
Powder', 'Back to the Womb
Dishwashing Liquid,' 'Poontang Cologne
For Men," and "23rd Psalm Feminine
Deodorant Spray?"
"Oh, don't worry," replied Ad-man,
"these will all be on the market soon,
as well as: 'Nirvana Cigarettes', 'Violent
Revolution Bath Oil Beads', 'Nookey
Toothpaste,' 'Judgement Day Diet Soft
Drink,' 'Immaculate Conception
Bathroom Bowl Cleaner,' and
'Motherhood Spray Starch."
"I've sometimes wondered." asked
Possibility Man, "If the public will be
offended by some of these innovations?"
"Not unless we tell them they are,"
replied Ad-onan, "Of course, we have
a careful screening process for our ideas
before they reach the market; we run
them up the flagpole then decide if
the public is supposed to salute them
or not." "Sounds fair enough," said
Possibility Man.
"Still, as a pan-metaphysicist," began
Possibility Man, "I can't help but think
there are holes in your active negativist
philosophy." "Oh, there are!" agreed
Ad-man, "50,000 per square inch; filters
the smoke to make nothingness
palatable. Our service to mankind is
neutralizing everything of potential
spiritual value, so that, in the end;
to coin a phrase, 'Where is thy sting?'
"Well," said Possibility Man, getting
up to leave, "You take the low road
and I'll take the high road." "Yeah,"
said Ad-Man, "and Til have colonized
Scotland before ye."
In more ways than one . , .
Homecoming race is sexist
by ROBERT RUSSELL
Today is one of the only days
that the masses of students on
the NU campus get to exercise
their democratic rights. Today
you may all vote on the
Homecoming Queen. The other
day on the way to class, I just
about dropped my
pants . . . well, no, let's just
say I was astonished when I
saw the poster with the several
candidates, but not one was a
male. I must protest the
flagrant discrimination of this
very serious election. For this
reason, I urge you to write in
one of the following four male
candidates: Mike Barret'
(Master America), Tim
Sindelar, Mr. Goodbar, or the
Frog.
MIKE BARRET wa!!y turn
ed the girls on at the Master
America Pageant on
Halloween. As the only one of
the contestants in the bathing
suit competition, the girls could
hardly keep their hands off
him. And Mike's brainpower is
not what one would consider
phenomenal. What better
qualifications could one ask
for? Mike was surely very
deserving of the Crown of
Horns of Master America.
TIM SINDELAR is more
noted for his talents than h 1 s
body. Tim was most outstan
ding In the Master America
contest with his tambourine
solo, which worked him up to
such a frenzy, that he caught
fire, as did the girls in the au
dience. Tim is also the most
inept member of Rick and tins
Rockets. The only reason they
keep him is because he owns
the piano. As a runner up in the
Master America contest, Tim is
another fine candidate.
MR. GOODBAR really
doesn't have much going for
him, but I guess he lias hidden
mystique, because the girl
judges just wouldn't stop
pinching him. The Frog is just
plain weird, but since there are
no- male frogs on the ticket, I
guess he qualifies.
NOW, when you're In that
voting booth today, just think
about a couple things. To all
you males, Isn't it about time
we were represented in the
Homecoming elections? And to
all you females, wouldn't one of
these four fine studs be more
exciting than the typical
Homecoming Queen?
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1970
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER tl, 1970
THE NEBRASKAN
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