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.
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"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?
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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.
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1970
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