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Practice
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Bob Devaney. . .tenured
professor of football science!
teaches his team a thing
or two as spring football
practice opened Monday.
See story on page 4.
Photo by Mike Hayman
W
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by DAVE BRINK
Staff Writer
"ASUN will never be attractive to students until it stops
being a toy where we go down and practice government. It's
really a farce."
Bruce Wimmer, student senator from Arts and Science, has
been an outspoken critic of many ASUN activities this year.
He has often voted with the minority on Senate issues,
sometimes a minority of one. Wimmer sees his role as
"balancing the teeter-totter" of student government, a
teeter-totter which he believes is overloaded on one side.
"ASUN got off to a bad start with the strike last year,"
Wimmer stated "The strike showed how ASUN was willing to
use the students."
WIMMER CRITICIZED the townhall meetings used to vote
on striking and said student government shouldn't ignore the
students who don't vote in such elections. Another way of
voting against the strike should have been provided, he added.
It seems ridiculous to make students miss class to vote
against missing class."
The strike wasn't that bad, some very good things came out
of it, Wimmer said. However, he criticized the takeover of the
ROTC building and attempts to put the University's name
behind the Cambodian protest.
Rather than endorsing the strike, Wimmer argues, ASUN
should have provided a forum for discussion.
Wimmer also lambasted the PACE campaign. He said ASUN
made an emotional appeal for a "rigid proposal" rather than
making a real attempt to determine student opinion. Most
students, in Wimmer's opinion, weren't aware of everything
the PACE program involved.
WIMMER ADDED that both the strike and PACE were
attempts to use "student apathy" as an excuse to ignore many
opinions. The apathy, he suggested, might be a "qualified
apalhy"of frustration and alienation" resulting when students
see student government "playing games and using them."
He faulted ASUN President Steve Tiwald for wearing a
black armband to the Nixon rally speech last January because,
in Wimmer's view, he violated student's freedom of expression
by expressing his individual feelings while acting as an official
representative. (Tiwald announced beforehand that he was
acting as only an individual)
"If they felt that strongly about expressing their personal
feeling on the war they should have stepped down as student
representatives." It would have been just as bad if he'd worn
an "I am for Nixon" button, Wimmer concluded.
Wimmer also attacked ASUN's handling of the controversy
over the Michael Davis and Stephen Rozman cases. He said the
Senate acted irresponsibly by trying to get the Regents to
appear at open meetings to discuss their decisions. It would
have done no good he added, to take the Regents before the
public "to be manipulated" by demonstrators.
"ASUN MUST become more representative, Wimmer
emphasized, "but even more so they have to become more
reasonable and more responsible. It should stay within issues
that are directly related to the University and student body."
Some students, Wimmer commented, use ASUN as a tool to
"relieve their consciences" because they can't work effectively
in state and national government. Senators naturally hold views
' on many issues, he noted, but should confine their ASUN
activities to student related areas.
Student services such as the ASUN zerox machines are
especially good, Wimmer explained, but much more would be
accomplished if the Senate wasn't using its time and money on
others issues.
WIMMER IS NOT running for reelection because he said he
will graduate in December and enter the Air Force through the
ROTC program. He expressed a regret that his role of
opposition had prevented him from doing more constructive
things in student government.
Wimmer said many of his stands would have never been
taken if he was running for reelection but it "had to be done
and I had nothing to loose by doing it. I think I represent a
large portion of the student body who were never represented
before."
He predicted that next year will be "crucial" for ASUN.
He said his and other student's activities had started a trend
toward "balance" in student government but there will be
another "frustrating year" before it gets straightened out.
New class schedules are
'unwieldy, but expendable
Students preparing to
register for the fall semester are
in for a surprise. Instead of the
book-sized schedule of classes
which has been used, students
will receive two tabloid size
schedules-one for fall semester
and one for next spring.
The change in format has
been made lor two reasons,
according to Gerald Bowker,
director of registration and
records.
"The cost of printing the
schedule was lowered by using
this format," said Bowker,
"and the new schedules allow
us to present a schedule of
classes for next spring as well."
The switch to the tabloid
format (tabloid is half regular
newspaper size similar to the
Daily Nebraskan) has allowed
the schedule to be cut from
140 to 35 pages. Although
Bowker admits that the new
schedule literature is unwieldy,
he noted that it is more
expendable than the old
booklet.
Bowker said the new
schedules will be ready for
release to students at the end
of this week.
Despite the change in the
schedule booklet, students will
still use the familiar worksheets
and computerized course
request forms in filing their
registration.
By making the schedule of
classes available this far in
advance the student will "get a
look at the total picture of his
future" Bowker said.
"This is the first time the
schedule has been planned this
far ahead," said Bowker. Any
changes that may be made in
the schedule between now and
next spring are not likely to be
major ones.
R egistration literature for
both summer sessions is
available now in the
Administration Building, and
the new literature will be made
available by the end of the
week.
Pre-registration for the fall
semester will begin April 5 and
continue until April 23.
Unicameral
postpones
Vietnam
resolution
A resolution before the
Nebraska Legislature
petitioning Congress to order a
pullout of American forces
from Vietnam by April 1,
1972, was referred to
committee Monday to prevent
an effort on the floor to kill it.
Sen. John DeCamp,
introducer of the resolution,
moved to send the resolution
to the Reference Committee
which in turn will assign it to a
standing committee. DeCamp
said he knew an effort to kill
the resolution with as little
publicity as possible had been
organized.
"The standing committee
will set a public hearing,"
DeCamp said. "I want this to
be the biggest public hearing
ever held on any bill with the
widest possible publicity."
NO HEARING DATE will
be announced until the proper
standing committee is chosen.
In other Legislative Action,
LB 446, a bill sponsored by
Sen. Ernie Chambers to outlaw
corporal punishment in
Nebraska schools, narrowly
survived another attempt by
Sen. Duke Snyder to kill it.
Snyder moved to send the
measure back from enrollment
and review to select file for a
specific amendment,
presumably either to kill or to
further dilute the bill. Snyder's
motion, however, fell one vote
short of the required
twenty-five votes, 24-17-8 .
Snyder said he had faith in
educators to handle discipline
problems.
"If they leave me to do the
legislating, I will leave them to
do the educating," he said.
"Parents just don't accept their
responsibility, and to take
corporal punishment away
from the schools would only
lead to expulsions."
Chambers, suffering from a
back injury and supporting
himself on crutches, attacked
the Legislature calling the
senators "hollow men."
"It is a sad commentary on
public education and this
Legislature when it becomes
the policy in this state that
violence in the classroom is an
integral part of the educational
system," he said. "If this bill is
killed, remember that students
have the same right to
self-defense as the teacher
has."
Chambers got surprising
support from Omaha Sen.
William Skarda, formerly an
opponent of the measure.
Skarda said he had done
some "soul-searching" and
decided that the "difficulty
with kids today should be
solved by the parents not the
schools." He added that the
corporal punishment bill was
"worth a try."
Snyder also surprised the
Unicameral by saying he would
vote for the bill on final
reading if the motion to kill
failed.
Nevertheless, the 24 votes
against LB 446 on Monday will
be a formidable obstacle to
overcome when the measure is
read for the last time.