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Sharing ideas PAGE 4 Some classes for the Free University have already begun and others will begin this week. ASUN has already sponsored a four-page supplement to the Daily Nebraskan describing the courses offered, but it seems that much more should be said about Free University. Free University is the only structured organization which promises to be a mind-expanding experience which is available to all students and faculty as well. This is not to denv that the regular University curriculum does not offer meaningful courses. However, it does imply that the Free University is much more realistic. The courses offered are not pushed clown a student's throat as requirements. The only element of coercion involved in the Free University is that of self-will. To illustrate the point, look at some of the courses. A course on drugs is being offered. Included in the course will be an analysis of existing laws on drugs. If those laws are in fact analyzed, it will be a rewarding, rational experience not available in the regular University. Indeed, how many University professors presently investigate those laws. And how many pharmacy students are taught to question inconsistency and fallacy of status quo laws? More appropriately, how many are permitted to do so? Other courses promise to be funtional and necessary. The most obvious example is the course on library usage. Few expletives are needed to underscore the significance and relevence of a course of this nature to the members of this community, and our friends at the state capitol. For the eco-tactic oriented, indeed the most realistic thinkers in the community, there are a number of courses available. Philosopher-architect-ecologist (et al) Buckminster Fuller will be presented by a group of students and faculty who plan to build a geodesic dome. As the course decription outlines, "Some things about geodesic domes; round, fairly simple to construct, inexpensive, and a natural respect for land and resources." Other courses of related ecological themes include bike-riding and long distance jogging. In addition to these courses, there are a number of others dealing with issues which the regular university has only half-heartedly confronted: racism, sexism, the war. But more significant than any of the subjects to be explored is the spirit of the Free University. "It provides the opportunity for people to share interesting ideas with other people and to try to create an open society through free discussion," There is room for controversy, discussion and positive thinking. And all are welcome to participate. M Irfi aaaa , MICK MORIARTY editor CONNIE WINKLER managing editor JOHN DVORAK news editor PAT DINATALE advertising manager JAMES HORNER chairman, publications committee Editorial staff Staff writer: Gary Seacrest, Bill Smithorman, Jim Pedersen, Steva Strasser Dave Brink, Marsha Bangert, Carol Goetschius, Charlie Harpster, Mike Wilkins, Jim Carver, Marsha Kahm, Bart Becker, Dennis Snyder, Vicki Puios, fioxanne Rogers, Ann Pedersen. East campus editor: Marlene Timmerman. Sports editor: Jim Johnston. Sports writers: Steve Kadel. Warren Obr. Photographers: Mike Hayman, Gail Folds. Entertainment editor: Larry Kubert. Literary editor: Alan Boye, Artists, Linda Lake, Greg Scott. Design editor: Jim Gray. Copy editors: Tom Lansworth, Laura Willers, Don Russell. Night news editor: Leo Schleicher. Business staff Coordinator: Sandru Carter. Salesmen: Steve Yates, Jane Kidwell, Greg Scott, Ray Pyle, Bill Cooley. Business assistant: Pam Baker. Distribution managers: Barry Pilger, John Waggoner, John tngwerson. Telephones: editor: 472-2583, newt: 2589, advertising: 2590. Second slass postage rates paid at Lincoln, Nab. Subscription rates are $5 per semester or $8.50 per year. Published Monday through Friday during the school year except during vacation and exam periods. Member of the Intercollegiate Press, National Educational Advertising Service. The Daily Nebraskan is a, student publication, independent of the University of Nebraska's administration, faculty and student government. Address: The Daily Nebraskan, 33 Nebraska Union, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 62508. THE DAILY fp$ I?4" 1 ; SI KT CJK -v . : ii B.$ r. f K X id JV" i mjT :x .. - o " ": mtzm., in Frank Mankiewitz and Tom Braden THE 1UB4ir46 COLDER fVilliam F. Buckley, Jr . WASHINGTON-Nearly a year ago, we wrote about the proposed payment by the American taxpayers of more than half a billion dollars to a private company -Lockheed Aircraft-so that it would avoid the bankruptcy to which its management had driven it. We called the proposal a "scandal" and said it "would be denounced as a failure of socialism if it happened, say, in England." Lockheed English Style It is still a scandal, and what has happened in England to Rolls-Royce only makes it more clear. Rolls-Royce, nourished in the past by Socialist governments, is now going bankrupt because the convervative government will not bail it out. The bankruptcy is caused by Rolls-Royce having acted like an American defense contractor-that is to say, it bid on a contract at an absurdly low .figure (hardly through imcompetence and partly, one suspects, through greed) and then could not deliver at the price it had bid. Rolls was biddingand trying to deliver-on the engine for Lockheed's new Tri-Star L-101 1 Airbus, and when it ran into trouble it did what American defense contractors do-it asked for what the Aii alternative The left -crazies have dominated the college scene, therefore the news, and for the moment there is surcease, a good moment to remarks that the right, in the college world, lives, and even has fun. The whole nation knows about the activities of the Young Americans for Freedom, the right-action group which during the last few years was the nearest thing to a fly-wheel in the campus world. There is also, here and there, a right-movement of a slightly offbeat nature, like the Party of the Right at Yale, whose members must know how to toast the succession of English monarchs, from Ethelred to the incumbent. By far the most interesting of these is the flock of zany students and graduate students who cluster about R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., and publish one of the most amusing and ourageous and interesting student journals in America. Cut-rate conservatism I notice that the current issue has a special introductory offer, showing an old rake trying to embrace a young wench. The caption is: "...but Greta for my ancient title my 10,000 serfs, and my subscription to The Alternative..." And then the offer:. "Now, for the first time, this great journal of opinion will send a one-year subsciption to any student or faculty member for the reasonable price of fifty cents. All others unfortunately still must pay four dollars - at least until our CIA grant slips through." The address is Rural Route 11, Box 360, Bloomington, Indiana: have fun. The style is a sort of Liberated-Disrespectful, absorbing no doubt much that the left has done in consecrating iconoclasm, and reflecting the hunger of the American college student for a little anti-left-cliche liberation. The lead editorial in the current issue examines the Scranton Commission's Report on Campus Unrest, of which a sample: "After enjoining a team of brilliantly idealistic young researchers (average age: 13 years, age range: seven months to 93 years) to analyze that 300-page document for the past three months, I now have their conclusions before me, and you will be relieved to hear that I intend to have the Rt. Hon. Mr. Scranton prosecuted as a common nuisance. Further I urge that the rest of the disgusting nitwits who aided and abetted him while serving as fellow commissioners be prosecuted for graft. And if we cannot find a public spirted hangman, let the autorities deport those scoundrels to Northern Ireland or a pleasantly contaminated atomic test site...." - if you see what 1 mean. Something for everyone There is an article on the radical youth in France, which makes excellent and timely observations, reviews ol John Coyne's The Kumquat Statement, and Steven Kclman's Push Comes to Shove. The review of the plight of John F. Kennedy College is written by Lawrence D. Pra,t who is identified as "a practicing ontologist and encounter group mullah of the Moon Mullins Study Group." There is an article of advice for freshmen: "First of all, freshmen must realize that the MONDAY, MARCH 11971 University is a bureaucracy. The University's most important operational principle, like that of any bureaucracy, is self-perpetuation,. There is no goal so large, no obstacle so great, that it cannot be sacrificed to achieve institutional permanence...." There is a list of Christmas gifts and citations. To Richard Nixon, a success some success.... any success. To Charles Reich - the greening of America. To America - the greening of Charles Reich. To J. W. Fulbright - the New York Times "Man of the Year Award" for his courageous and consistent stand against non-whites in South Vietnam and non-whites in the South. To the United Nations -Communist China. To Communist China - the United Nations. To the John Birch Society - tooth decay (due to their principled refusal to use fluoridated water.) To the F-l 1 1 - - wings, or anything that will make it fly. To high-minded public servants -low pay. To the Gay Liberation Front - Puerto Rico. The young editor writes me, ''perhaps our paths will cross while you are in Europe. I shall be spending the middle weeks of February in Germany at the celebrated Bavarian Peanut Festival in the rustic town of Phlegm. It is one of the few luxuries I afford mvsclf. " The alternative is one of the few luxuries you can indulge yourself, to be reminded of the brawling tradition of academic and undergraduate forensic art, and the happy discovery that the other side is very very vulnerable to student wit. MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1971 H assies at the Pentagon Pentagon-, calls "contract nourishment," in plain language a cost overrun. But Lockheed turned its free enterprise face to Rolls-Royce even as it was concluding a socialist handout from the Pentagon. The result is that Rolls-Royce is in bankruptcy and Lockheed is in clover-both for the same act of imcompetence-for the curious reason that Great Britan's government believes in free enterprise and the Pentagon does not. "Governments must rid themselves of the illusion," said Prime Minister Heath, "that you can find the way to that prosperity by pouring out the taxpayer's money into perpetual - subsidies for uneconomic ventures." Lockheed, Chapter two While Heath was saying that, the handshake was barely warm on a deal between Lockheed and the Pentagon, designed to cost the taxpayers a staggering amount of money-limited by only how much Lockheed can spend in finishing the delivery of the giant transport C-5A. Off its past performance, which includes a cost overrun in excess of one billion dollars in addition to non-delivery, that will be considerable. The Pentagon-Lockheed deal is worth examining, although the full details have yet to be made public, and may never be. Lockheed is in big trouble, partly through its inability to deliver the C-5A on time or at cost and partly because it is gambling on the civilian L-101 1 Airbus (with Rolls-Royce engines) at a time when airline profits are shrinking along with orders for the plane. The Pentagon proposal to Lockheed, accepted only a few days before the Rolls-Royce contribution to Lockheed's trouble became, public, is to limit the company's loss on the C-5A to $200 million and have the taxpayers pick up the rest through "cost reimbursement." The agreement also relieves Lockheed of responsibility for production quality and of any penalties for late delivery of the remaining planes due under the contract. In other words, Lockheed can charge what it wishes and be reimbursed-its overhead charges are already extremely high, leading some tc suspect that the military C-5A is paying for the civilian L-101 1 and it has a loss limited to only $200 million. As if that were not enough, the Pentagon plan is to lend the company the $200 million, which it may pay back over ten years beginning in 1 9 7 4 and ending, appropriately enough, in 1984. Even the repayment terms have a sweetening agent-the United States may defer or forego any repayment, and there are some possible "award fees" mentioned which might reduce the debt. All of this 'is to avoid the repercussions of a Lockheed bankruptcy, which might include embarrassment c'f some executives, but which would certainly not curtail its defense production. In England, the Conservative government if nationalizing Rolls-Royce's defense production. It is an example that socialists at the Pentagon might well heed. dear editor Dear editor, This letter is especially directed to five young men on the University campus. On Feb. 22 they appeared at our house asking to scood the drive. We settled a price of $7.50 and suggested they contact our neighbor to see if he wished them to scoop his drive. After they had finished both drives we invited the young men into our home where we served them chili, sandwiches, coffee and cookies. Based on our visit with them as they ate, we concluded that they, indeed, possessed some pretty sound values. This assessment was shaken today when we learned from our neighbor that they had charged him $18, to scoop a drive half the size of ours. We want you young men to know that the neighbor you took advantage of is a retired minister. His wife was recently hospitalized for two weeks.. .she learned she is a diabetic. By that measure can you consider yourselves men in any sense. ..and take advantage of a kind and generous elderly couple? Boys, we opened our hearts and home to you. Our hope is that you will recognize your greed. Accept the $10 you originally agreed to do the job for, and return the additional $8 you exacted after the job was completed. You will not remember the address and if you do not wish to drive out, just send the refund to us. We'll be most happy to return it to our neighbors for you. Mr. and Mrs. I.D. Goochey 1930 Pacific Drive introducing sin ii!nliiibi6 n sroducf: Stud (Would you believe two wtiol months of unlimited rail travel throughout thirteen European countries for a modest $125?) .Our brand-new Student-Railpass gives you all that Second Class rail travel on the over 100,000 mile railroad systems of Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. You'll discover that there's very little second cl?ss about Second Class. You can sleep in a Couchette for only $4.50 a night, and eat in inexpensive cafeteria-type Dining Cars. If you haven't got two months, or you prefer the luxury of First Class, there's our regular Eurailpass. The three week Eurailpass costs $110, one month $140, two months $200, three months $230. But remember you can't get Student-Railpass or Eurailpass in Europe. You must buy one before you leave, so see your Travel Agent. Meanwhile, send in the coupon below for your free Student-Railpass or Eurailpass folder. i 192 B Th way to see Europe without feeling like a tourist. 'Eurailpass is valid in Austria, Beigium, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. Eurailpass, Box SO, Undenhurst, New York 11757. Please send me your free Eurailpass folder with railroad map. Or your free Student-Railpass folder order form. 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