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Blues is a bright spot In the past several years, no group seems to have been able to produce a literary magazine with any consistency of quality of publication. However, Murray Martz' Tin Roof Blues appeals to be the exception. Martz has already produced two issues of Tin Roof Blues this year and plans to publish two more. The second volume, reviewed by two English professors , on the opposite page, is attractive in format and appealing in content. ' Tin Roof Blues will be on sale Tuesday in Andrews Hall where the quantity will be limited (250) as well as the price (25 cents). Martz deserves to be ? congratulated both for the quality of his magazine and his consistency of publication. STOPACE out of step? STOP ACE is an organization composed of students who oppose the proposal of PACE (Program of Active Commitment to Education) to provide low income scholarships with funds raised by increasing student fees $3.50 per semester. Though many of the arguments put forward by STOPACE are quite illogical, the organization serves a useful purpose by measuring the dissent on the PACE proposition. What is most disappointing is the fact that neither group has received the response it expected. The failure of students to support or oppose PACE in greater numbers is very upsetting. This is an issue which involves a very important concern of this University and society as a whole as well as the use of students' money, but most of the campus seems quite unconcerned. Steve Fowler, chairman of PACE, stated that 130 of 200 off-campus students who were contacted Sunday afternoon favored the proposal; and that he felt on campus support would run at least as high. Neither of the groups has the manpower to canvass the entire University community yet all students have the oportunity to indicate their preference by signing a petition for either point of view in the north. lobby of the Nebraska Union. Voegler too? iast Thursday evening, Doug Voegler, National Committeeman of Young Republicans offered the YR's a counter proposal to PACE and STOPACE Thursday. His suggestion was that students be permitted to check a box on their registration papers to indicate whether they should be billed for an extra $3.50. Though this idea may please those who do not want to help low income students, It is Inadequate In light of the University's Inability to provide sufficient aid to the financially disadvantaged. THE NEBRASKAN opposes Voegler's "alternative" for several reasons. If funding were voluntary, the amount raised would not be predictable from semester to semester thus preventing the University from mak ing long range scholarship plans, and Increasing the difficulty of acquiring of matching federal funds. Other difficulties involved with voluntary funding include the administrative morass of such a program and the fact that incoming freshmen would have no understanding of it. For Its continuing success, the program would have to be explained to the student body every semester as students would tend to forget or ignore the problems of others. Finally, on a voluntary basis, PACE would differ from other student fees because it would exist as a charity rather than as an expression of the commit ment of the University community. THE NEBRASKAN Talaphones: Editor: 473-I5M, Buslnati: 472-2390, Nawtt 472-25W. Stcond ClH poataga paid at Lincoln, Nato, Subscription rait art M par tamastar or W.JO par yaar. Publish! Monday, Wadnasday, Thursday and Frldny during tha school yar axcapt during vaca tloni and txam parlods. Mambar el tha Intarcollaglatg Prat, National Iduca. tlonal Advartltlno Sarvlra. Tha Nabraskan It a student publication. Indapandanl of tha Unlvartlty Of Nab. raska's administration, (acuity and Itudant govarnmant. Addrass: Tha Nabraikan 34 Nabraska Union Unlvartlty of Ntbratka Lincoln, Ntbratka MM Vdltorlal latt Editor: Kalley Bnktrr Managing Editor! Connla Winkler Newt Edlton Bill Smithermani Sports editors: Jim Johnston and Rogar Rlfai Nvbraskan Staff Wrltart: Gary Saacrsit. John Dvorak, Mick Moriarty, Martha Bangart, Dava Brink, Stava Slratiar, Pat McTaa, Carol Ootitchlut, Monta Garlacn, Charlaa Harpstari Photographers: Dan Ladaly, Mlka Maymani Entertainment fditort Frad Eltsnharti Lltarary Editor! Alan Soya Newt Attlttantt Andrea Thompson! Copy Editors: Laura Parttch, Jim Gray, Warran Obr. Blyth Erlcksoni Night Nawt Editor) Tom Lanaworttw Night Niwt Assistant Lag Sthlelcher. sail Tr,jicyji? I', ' 'nfiiii, , , 'iitWiiiiiMii ii i ii in am , , ,,1,1 iiiiiaj de Pace Further PACE pro posals 1 Ltk MMfytLtt tMtAj.fQej "Any chance of moving the election up a year?" by MICHAEL EGGER and RICHARD RECKEft The current Pace program has become one of the most emotional movements to hit campus in recent years and has sparked heated debate n the form of a growing Stopace movement. Part "of the animosity towards Pace stems from the present tactics oh some of the Pace workers who teem not to present the merits if their issue, but rather to ask the student if he is for Brotherhood and against sin anil if so he should sign the Pace petition without further question. We do not seek to be either pro or anti Pace, pro or antl Stopace, rather we wish to have the Pace proposal ex amined on its own merits and would like to see a thorough explanation of what the pro gram will entail and what will be the mechanics of it. Both Pace and Stopace have gone the petition route to enlist support for their viewpoints and we suspect this is not the best approach to use. Among other reasons it permits the high-pressured salesmanship mentioned above. The Pace petition is being financed rather generously by ASUN, and In so doing the Senate has put itself in an untenable moral position. The ASUN Senate should be com mended for holding out through two votes on providing the Pace program several hundred dollars of student money to finance their advertising cam paign. But upon the accusation f racial biotry the Senate capitulated on the third ballot to Pace Field Marshal Nancy Ryan and her general staff. While It might be argued that out of fairness to Stopace the Senate should appropriate them an equal sum, we contend that no monies should have been appropriated at all. At most Pace should have received the Senatorial blessing and im primatur. What both Pace and Stopace fail to see is that their disagreement can be settled quite easily -by usual democratic procedures and a sense of good will. We propose the following three steps: 1. ASUN should take the present advertising budget voted for Pace and spend it on advertising a series of forums at which the Pace and Stopace people could present their arguments. Any third parties who wish to make their own proposals known could speak as well. If ASUN represents all students as it claims, It has a duty to be fair to all sides. 2. The Nebraskan should continue to offer its editorial page as a forum for the Pace and Stopace arguments so that the general student body can inform itself on the ssue. 3. After these first two steps have been taken and there has been sufficient time to fully air all aspects of this controversial issue, ASUN should give a month's notice and call for a referendum election on the Pace proposal. ASUN should do Its best to encourage a large vote turnout, especially since the turnout was so light at the last ASUN Wanted: a new game plan by Frank Manklewici and Tom Braden WASHINGTON The President called In his favorite journalists last Friday, In an attempt to preserve for a while pleasant fictions that he came out of the election a winner, but no amount of news management can conceal (least of all from the Democrats) the plain fact that the grand Nixon strategy Is In ruins. The strategy was called "Southern, but that was too simple a shorthand. In Its total form, it called for the emergence of a new Republican majori ty, one that would last a generation or more. It called for ignoring the East Coast and New England areas, these strongholds of what Spiro Agnew called the Establishment It would be based so the theory went on the South, the great Midwest heartland, the Rocky Mountain states and California, The package was neat, and the In structions for assembling it were follow ed to the letter. First came the redrawn Interpretation of the Health, Education and Welfare Department's tchooi desegregation guidelines. Then came new orders to the Justice Department, orders which resulted for the first time In U.S. attorneys sitting in federal courts not with black plaintiffs seeking desegregated schools, but with Southern state attorneys-general seeking delays. Then came the proposed appointment of Judge Clement Hayns worth. Then came the ex-future-Senate-candidate from Florida, Judge Harrold Cars-well. Then came an assortment of bewildering statements from Justice and the White House about busing, "instant integra tion" and the nelglsborhood school. It was an historic turnaround, and through Its course there could be seen the peripatetic figure of the Vice Presi dent, denouncing open enrollments and touring the old Confederacy often hand-in-hand with Sen. Strom Thurmond reiterating that "it's time to quit kicking the South around." Then, emboldened by new theories about a Social Issue, the mechanics began building on the South An base. Agnew went to Wisconsin and Michigan, dropping alliterations as he went, de nouncing Sens. Philip Hart and William Proxlmire as permissivlst and responsi ble for the social ills of the day. From there, he bore down on Wyom-' ing, Nevada, Utah and New Mexico, amid confident cries that Sens. Gale McC.ee, Howard Cannon, Frank Moss and Joseph Montoya were equally guilty and vulnerable to GOP replacement But when the returns were In, the strategy was upended. Florida was back in Democratic hands; so wtu Texas. TlHirmond's man, Albert Watson, was repudiated in South Carolina, even though David Elsenhower campaigned for him. From North Dakota (a senator), South Dakota (a governor and both House seats), Nebraska (a governor and nearly a senator), all the way through Arkansas (a governor) and Oklahoma (a governor), the big-spending permissivlst Democrats had won. In the Rocky Mountain area, the carnage was enormous. All Democratic senators were overwhelmingly re elected, and GOP state houses were lost In Idaho and New Mexico. In California, Democrats halved Gov. Ronald Reagan's 1966 majority and toppled Sen. George Murphy. Worse, they won back control, of both state houses and will control reapportionment, as will Democrats in Florida. And where were the Republican gains? In the scorned East and in New England, that's where. An easy Senate win in Vermont, a pickup of a Senate seat and the state house in Connecticut and strong and passably successful races for governor m Rhode Island and Maine. A governor retained In Massachusetts and New York, a conservative senator in New York, as well as a modern one in Maryland. It's time for the Republican Party to quit kicking the East around. What can now be expected Is a shift to the left more properly to the middle with heavy emphasis oa economic security, welfare reform and some kind of national health Insurance. Mr. Nixon ts too good an election analyst and toe keen a sports fan ta stay with a game plan that produce defeat, election. ASUNs efforts should not be to encourage one side or the other, but rather simply to encourage all students to participate in what may be one of the most important elections to be held on our campus in recent years. Strangely enough, there has been opposition to a secret ballot election on this issue from some of the most vocal supporters of Pace. We now ask President Tiwald what is to be feared by anyone hi putting the issue to the time-honored fairness of the secret ballot? f -yv -Jk sF t n by MELVIN LYON I enjoyed looking at and holding this new issue of Tin Roof Blues. The tin type-effect of the cover photograph of the two children is simple and pleasing. But I think the first poem should have been put at the end of the issue. One of the two weakest poems, it doesn't quite escape the tendency of haiku in English to be sen timental or obvious or both. "Circle of sound" is fine but "full-round joy" hooks on to no picture or feeling for me. Also, placed first, the poem rein forces the cover and pushes the issue too far toward sen timentality. In the body of the magazine the professionalism of the Kuzma and Kooser poems make them stand out. Musically, Kuzmas seems the most successful poem in the issue: the lines break precise ly; their deftness and grace help embody the theme. The repetition of "laughter" is ef fective too. But the poem Is somewhat lacking in substance because the situation is not particularized or concrete enough to create a sharp im pression. Kooser's wish to return to Innocence is particular and vivid enough to relieve the theme of most of ts triteness. But the everyday and banal are too much present to become as much poetry as ideally I think they should, and the author's attempt to provide elevation by juxtaposing Scherazade and The Readers Digest seems to me unsuccessful because the former has little relationship to the world of the poem. More interesting to me than these two well-done pro fessional pieces are "The Sleep Album," "Early Oranges," and "Field Daisies." "The Sleep Album" begins with an ex citing, visually clear, sur realistic image, antithetical to Kooser's dead-level realism. The second sentence I don't understand, and therefore the third is no altogether clear, but the dream quality persists and Is effective. "Early Oranges" is memorable because it is a sensation that of the smell and sticky feeling on one's fingers of orange peel. The first and last sentences seem to me best. The material In between does not always seem clearly relevant to the theme, and there is some laxness, as in the triteness of "to play and sing.' Here as fn the Kuzma poem part of the effect is achieved by repetition of a single word, in this case "orange" (or "oranges"). The repetition is not so frequent nor so deftyly done but is still effective. I lik ed this poem best "Field Daisies" is much bet ter than the haiku by the same poet. It has the rhythm and feel of sudden, unself-conscious talk or conscious thought. The elliptical quality is overdone, but after I made the struggle to fill out the scene I felt the time spent was well worth it The poem contains what seems to me the best line in the issue: "Your hands wither a whole witness," Among the other poems "Up wishbone alley' is a vivid characterization, despite a flaccid phrase like "fine full times" or the misplaced ex oticism of "rose." "The Scow" doesn't attempt a great deal but after the initial brief con crete description of the scow, the poem, like the boat, achieves elevation as both "become ... the wind." The issue as a whole I found successful. The poems are uniformly well done and gave me pleasure, some of which I think will last And what a bonus of pleasure the format is! That is the most esthetically pleasing poetry magazine I have ever seen. by WILBUR GAFFNEY Now that the tumults and the shoutings have died away, and the captains and the kings and their voluble cohorts have strutted or shambled off the stage, and the miasmic clouds of ostrohogulous piffle have been more or less blown away, it is a pleasant relief to rediscover the fact that words can be used by the writer,' and can be enjoyed by the reader, for their own sakes instead of In the decibel-heavy artillery or political polemics. One makes this discovery (or re-discovery) oa looking into the second 1979 Issue of Tin Root Blues, up small but pro mising campus literary magazine, which goes on sale at the Union today. This issue Is Volume I, Number 2 a fact which heartenlngly suggests con tinuity, and that, somewhere beneath the crowded surfaces and noisome winds, the spirit of poetry yet bums with a hard, Ssmlike flame which, when it es surface now and then a fancy way of saying "when it breaks into print" is worth our notice. Contributors to this Issue In clude "old, familiar faces' from last time around: Sal lie Nixon, Greg Kuzma, G. Lynn Nelson, Roy Schccle and Susan Marts. New voices in this issue are Ted Kooser (whose book of verse, "Official Entry Blank," was publlslHHi by the Universi ty Press last year), Jim Weaver, and Barry McDonald. Hit long ago, a cynical and supercilious person from the edge of the Ivy League asked me, "how is it even possible for people in Nebraska to write poetry?" I sent him a copy of the first issue of Tin Root Blues and received a somewhat grudging acknowledgement that it was not so totally im possible a feut as he had thought I shall now send him Volume I, Number t, fairly confident of achieving at least some semblance of a TKO. Tin Root Blues, Volume I Number t, will be en sale la An drews Hall Tuesday. The price is twenty-five cents. PAGE 4 THE NEBRASKAN MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1970 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1970 THE NEBRASKAN PAGE 5
