'- :
f
$
'I
1 '
.1 ;'
H
White
Knight
to the
Rescue
According to University
officials, Greeks and members
of other campus organizations
are going to be given another
chance.
Now they have until Feb 1 5
to comply with the Regents'
anti-discrimination statement.
The deadline has been set,
after which time the Regents
will dress in their shining
armor, mount their white
steeds and then ride across the
t'ruited-plains of huskerland to
to destroy the villanous
discriminators.
And, of course the spectacle
will be beautiful, because then
everybody will know that with
the eradication of three of
four fraternities and sororities,
discrimination will be
non-existent in Nebraska.
After all, despite what we
were told as to the objectives
of the Robinson Report, we
do know what the results have ,
been.
The Robinson Report
delivered to the members of
this community the startling,
as well as divine, information
which reveals a heretofore
unknown fact: there is a lot of
"prejudice" on this campus.
Reading between the lines,
the report further says: that
for the sake of expedition,
facilitation and vindication,
we believe that the Greeks
have a monopoly on prejudice
and they should therefore be
used as scapegoats of the
University to show to the
public that the rest of this
community reigns ethically
supreme.
It does not take much of an
imagination to predict what
will happen after the purge.
Quite frankly, nothing.
The Regents (perhaps), the
administrators (for sure) will
ride off into the sunset,
reticent to leave virtuous
names behind (for posterity)
and. the campus will have
become liberalized. The
community will have opened
its eyes, if for one brief
shining moment, to the good
and the pure.
And, in all probability, we
will never ask the question,
Why are all of the Regents
white? Nor will there be time
to ask the question, Why are
most of the Administration's
noblemen white? If the
members of this community
are really proud of themselves,
after doing away with a couple
of Greek houses, we may
never even consider looking
into the question, Why aren't
"white liberals" too popular
with black folk?
And hereafter, the people
who look into those questions
will be thought of as freaks.
Yes, and when the Greeks are
gone, there will be new
scapegoats and new specimens
manufactured and packaged
for ostracization.
To be sure, they will not be
administrators. They have no
need to clean their house.
Regents will never even be
considered. Nor will it be the
university itself, because we
know, without a doubt, that
this entire institution could
not be racist. (That conclusion
must be true, as well as valid,
since we have been told that
the people who manage and
operate it has a priori
knowledge concerning the
matter).
Then after awhile, when the
university is no more, when it
has gone to its own Hell,
someone might consider
asking those questions
seriously.
3
The new defense budget hoax
ii
ii
) to f
fcvr... 1
of drugs
education
I mean
to those
Dear Editor,
It seems to me that the role
of the Health Center
concerning misuse
should be twofold:
and treatment.
By treatment,
providing attention
students who find themselves
on a bad trip. Heroin addiction
is quite another
thing however, even if only
referral services and counseling
should be provided for student
junkies. I say, "should be
provided," please note. If such
services are currently being
provided, I sure know nothing
about it. And I've been a
student here for a year and a
half. The Health Center seems
determined to keep many of its
services a deep secret, even
from the student body. Such as
the fact that everyone at the
Health Center knows that they
are only too happy to provide
birth control information and
contraceptives. God knows
students need them, but how
many students know that?
Want to make a survey?
Education about drugs had
damn well better start getting
realistic. Scare campaigns are
worthless. The most important
thins kids should know about
pot is that they shouldn't drive
under its influence. About
speedthat it slowly destroys
the body. About
hallucinogenics that they
should be used sparingly, much
of it being cut with cumulative
poisons, That they should try
to buy only that stuff which is
considered "pure." That they
should trip at home where they
are safe or with someone who
can take care of them if they
get confused or frightened.
And that LSD isn't candy. It
should be used, like any drug,
with moderation.
It should also be
emphasized that the biggest
danger in drug usage is being
busted. Students should be
told what precautions to take
and what the drug laws in their
slate are in effect. And what
their rights are.
A very vital part of drug
education should be about
common prescribed and
non-prescription drugs and
their possible effects on the
individual. It took me nine
months to discover that my
birth control pills were making
me depresses, unhappy,
paranoid, bitchy, in short,
almost suicial. I was never
properly warned about possible
side effects. My friend spent a
year of ups and downs in mood
coming off two years worth of
barbituates, which had been
prescribed, unbeknownst to
her, for a bleeding ulcer
condition. Drugs aren't toys.
We know that. We want to
know precisely, exactly, what
that means. And not by idiotic
commercials on the radio that
begin:
Boy: Hi, Mom! Mother:
(concerned) John, what are
those seeds in your room?
Boy: (scared) They're. .they're
nothing! Father: (Bounces
something off the wall,
presumably the Boy) Get in
your room! I'll show you
nothing!
That's all I have to say." Now
its up to you. Health soldiers
of the world unite!
Laura Rambaldi
by FRANK MANKIEWICZ
and
TOM BRADEN
WASHINGTON - "In the
1971 budget, American's
priorities were quietly but
dramatically reordered. For the
first time in 20 years, we spent
more to meet human needs
than we spent on defense."
Those are the first words in
President Nixon's new budget
message, and it leads the reader
to wonder if the rest of the
message is as patently, indeed,
breathtakingly false.
The budget itself is such a
gigantic document, and the
explanations of it so carefully
designed to conceal which shell
it is under which one may find
the pea, that it will take more
than one column to analyze it
at the length it deserves.
Mr. Nixon gives away most
of the game at the beginning.
Immediately after the
statement quoted above, he
said, "In 1971 (the fiscal year
commencing July 1), we must
increase our spending for
defense in order to carry out
the nation's strategy for
peace." Unless the "strategy
for peace" includes a period of
national bankruptcy, this
PAGE 4
statement as well is in
comprehensible. The bare bones of the
budget, the current year's as
well as the new one, show that
defense spending is still going
up, and will still take more
than $2 of every $3 disposed
of by the Congress, for any
.urpose.
The new budget, for
example, calls for an increase
of $6 billion for what the
President calls "military and
military assistance programs."
This is new money, to be piled
on the sum of nearly $75
billion spent this year. It does
not take account of
supplementary requests for
more aid to Cambodia and
Laos which will surely be
forthcoming, as the leaders of
the nations begin to develop
their Vietnamese neighbors'
appetites for living off the
wealth of the American
taxpayer. Even that $6 billion
extra for the Pentagon if not
expanded will take care of all
the additional money proposed
in the budget for revenue
sharing with the states and
cities, thus deserving the 2-1
military-to-civilian
the current budget.
balance in
In the fiscal year which will
end July 1, defense spending
will run in excess of $74.5
billion as a result of a number
of "emergencies" and
"supplemental" increases
added on since the budget was
adopted with a figure for
defense spending set at $73
billion. Even the $73 billion
was an increase over the
amount set in the "posture
statement" of Defense
Secretary Melvin Laird in
February of 1970, which put
the figure at $71.8 billion.
In other words, in a year in
which the government was
"quietly but dramatically"
reordering our priorities, the
following really happened: The
secretary of defense said we
would spend $73 billion,
Congress cut that figure (it
thought) by $2 billion, and we
wound up spending $74.5
billion. Now, the President says
$76 billion for next year
(which will probably rise to
$80 billion) while human
resources spending stayed at
$26 billion this year and may
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
rise to as much as $30 billion
in the coming year.
That is why all the talk
about "reordering our
priorities" is not only false, but
dangerously so. The fact that
the President and the Pentagon
engage in this fraud shows they
know the public hunger for a
real reordering of
priorities-this kind of tricky
bookkeeping only feeds what
President Nixon referred to in
his State of the Union message
as the widespread distrust of
government.
There are other, more subtle
frauds, in the defense budget.
Administration lobbyists are
pointing out that the Pentagon
received 9.5 of the gross
national product in 1968,7.4
this year, and will get only
6.8 next year. They say this
proudly, as though there is
some law that defense spending
should normally always go up
as the GNP climbs.
But that is like saying a man
should buy a new shotgun for
self-defense everytime his
family increases. That is logic
that appeals only to the makers
of shotguns.
BUMS
1
mm
MICK MORIARTY
editor
CONNIE WINKLER
managing editor
JOHN DVORAK
news editor
PAT DINATALE
advertising manager
JAMES HORNER
chairman, publications committee
Editorial staff
Nebraskan staff writers: Gary Seacrest, Bill Smitherman, Jim Padersen,
Steve Strasser, Dave Brink, Marsha Banqert, Carol Goetschius, Charlie
Harpster, Mike Wilkins, Jim Carver, Marsha Kahm, Nancy Hart, Bart
Becker, Dennis Snyder, Vicki Pulos, Roxanne Rogers, Ann Pedersen. East
campus editor: Marlene Timmerman. Sports editor: Jim Johnston. Sports
writer: Warren Obr. Photographers: Mike Hayman, Gail Folda.
Entertainment editor: Larry Kubert. Literary editor: Alan Boye. Artists:
Linda Lake, Greg Scott. Desing editor: Jim Gray. Copy editors: Tom
Lansworth, Laura Willers, Don Russell. Night news editor: Leo Schleicher.
Business staff
Advertising manager: Pet di Natale. Coordinator: Sandra Carter.
Salesmen: Steve Yates, Jane Kid well, Greg Scott, Ray Pyle, Bill Cooley.
Business assistant: Pam Baker. Circulation managers: Barry Pilger, John
Waggoner, John fngwerson.
Telephones: editor: 472-2588, news: 2589, advertising: 2590. Second
class postage rates paid at Lincoln, Neb.
Subscription rates are $5 per semester or $8.50 per year. Published
Monday through Friday during the school year except during vacation and
exam periods. Member of the Intercollegiate Press, National Educational
Advertising Service.
The Daily Nebraskan 'is a student publication, independent of the
University of Nebraska's administration, faculty and student government.
Address: The Daily Nebraskan, 34 Nebraska Union, University of
Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68508.
William F. Buckley, Jr .
Closing the curtain
SANTIAGO, CHILE-The brand new hotel here, in
mid-season, has 23 guests, which means that 500 beds are
empty. Tomorrow, 60 of them will be occupied by a Cuban
delegation. "And they probably won't pay their bill," a young
Chilean businessman, busily engaged in disengaging from Chile,
remarked in his emptying office, the files packed up,
phonograph records in cartons, as he mused on how he will
raise the money to pay his debts-he has sold everything
except his little beach cottage in the 10 weeks since Dr.
Salvador Allende Gossens was inaugurated as President, but
there are no buyers.
A professor is trying very hard to master the art of
intrigue. He could write you a book tomorrow about some of
the great intrigues in European history, but he never knew
such a one as his department is engaged in. You see, the
balance of power is in the hands of the cook. I kid you not.
The university system in Chile has for years and years been
dominated by a senate of sorts in which everyone is
represented, professors, assistant professors, students,
maintenance men; and yes cooks.
The difference is that under Allende the politicization of
everything is such that great consequences ensue on the littlest
vote. In this case, the question is whether the department will
more or less formally establish itself as a revolutionary arm of
the Communist Socialist Radical coalition that rules Cuba.
The cook is in favor of it. The professor in charge is against it,
pleading that any such marriage must be at the expense of the
integrity of the department's scholarly calling. He was
supposed to have finished a book months ago, but he has not
begun it. How can he, when he needs to spend the time
scheming to muster a majority sufficient to overcome the
political dedication of his cook?
Another professor, young, soft-spoken, freshly returned
from several years in Germany, looks you in the eye and says
goddamit it is a bloody slander to allege that the Allende
government is engaged in persecuting El Mercurio, the leading
opposition daily. You are told the same thing by government
functionaries.
But this professor is something else, because he
genuinely believes it to be so that the Allende government is
innocent. It goes as follows: El Mercurio (government
spokesmen tell you) is simply one enterprise in a complex
dominated by a single family, and over the years the busmess
fell into lax habits. Good government (of the Allende type), is
charged with enforcing the laws. One such law holds that the
Edwards Bank, an arm of the enterprise, had no business
underwriting a particular transaction without sufficient
collateral.
As for El Mercurio-why, all the government is
attempting to insure is that, like other enterprises, it has paid
its taxes. All of this against a background of: a) frozen credit,
b) price control; c) wage increases by government's decree; d)
the flight of capital; 3) the withdrawal by the government of
official advertising in the newspaper; f) harassment by a union
controlled by the Communist Party; g) the arrest of a
prominent executive through the resuscitation of an old and
dormant law. There is no question in the minds of the
managers of the Edwards Enterprises that eventually they will
all be exonerated of any substantive wrongdoing. There is
considerable question whether, by that time, El Mercurio will
still be publishing. Exit the axis of opposition to the Allende
government.
What is interesting-mark this well-is that the young
professor, and so many other idealists like him who support so
avidly the revolutionary government will not admit to any
knowledge of what, in fact, is taking place in Chile. They don't
believe it. What they believe is the purity of the government's
purpose.
You sit and listen, and a great literature of the past
generation runs through your mind. The excuses made by the
professors who, early in the thirties, backed Hitler. Allende
isn't Hitler or Stalin. But his supporters are of the breed of the
supporters of Hitler and Stalin. They will not credit the
evidence which every day accumulates before their eyes. There
are reasons historical, cultural, ideological, and even moral
which account for their blindness.
Meanwhile one begins to understand what Albert J.
Nock meant when he wrote in his journal that he thought
someday to address himself to the question: how' do you
establish that you are slipping into a dark age?
PAGE 5
h
v
u
1V.V .
i
if?
??
fi
4
S:
m
1:1
.;'.-:
'
far-
if-
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1971
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 4, 1971
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
'.-. .
