Bill Moyers:
'America could be better '
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31,
ASUN
fees for Nebraskan
This b the first of a series
concerning issues which will
appear on the ASUN election
ballot, April 7.
by GARY SEACREST
Staff Writer
Seldom has a campus
newspaper been embroiled in
such controversy as the Daily
Nebraskan has been this school
year concerning its use of
student fees. Next Wednesday
as part of the ASUN elections
University students have the
opportunity to vote on
whether they wish to continue
student fee support for the
newspaper.
Although it is being billed as
the "vote on the Rag," the
results of the elections will not
be binding on the Board of
Regents, according to G.
Robert Ross, corporation
secretary for the Regents.
HOWEVER, THE
r e s u 1 t s of the election
could well play an important
role in deciding the future of
the newspaper.
Concerning the Daily
Nebraskan the ASUN election
ballot reads:
"In the past year the
student support for the Daily
Nebraskan has amounted to
$1.25 per full time student per
semester. This is combined
with support from advertising
revenues. Do you favor
continued student fee support
for the Daily Nebraskan?"
ASUN President Steve
Tiwald said ASUN would be
taking "the initiative in
assessing student opinion" by
placing the Daily Nebraskan
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vote tests
student fee question on the
ballot.
Earlier this month the
Regents directed that an
opinion poll be taken this
spring to determine student
interest in continuing student
fees to support the Daily
Nebraskan and the
Gateway, the student
newspaper at the University of
Nebraska at Omaha.
IN A RESOLUTION, the
Board said the "results of such
a poll will be used among other
evidence as the Board studies
the relationship of the student
newspaper to the University
and, therefore, would not be
considered binding on either
campus student bodies or the
Board of Regents."
Ross said that the Regents
in assessing student opinion on
the Dai'y Nebraskan will use
the results of the ASUN
elections in addition to taking
their own survey. He said a
survey will allow the
consideration of more
questions concerning the
newspaper than appears on the
ASUN ballot.
A PROPOSAL will be
presented to the Regents this
Saturday, which will set up the
machinery for taking a student
opinion survey of the two
student newspapers later this
semester, according to Ross.
He said the proposal calls for
taking the survey one Monday
during 10:30 a.m. classes on
the Lincoln campuses and the
UNO . campus.
DAILY NEBRASKAN
Editor Mick Moriarty said the
results of the ASUN elections
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by CHARLIE HARPSTER
Staff Writer
America, an affluent giant
in a world of misery, is far
from the great nation it could
be, Bill Moyers, former press
secretary to President Lyndon
B. Johnson, told the 43rd
annual Honors Convocation.
"Nations have to act great
in order to be great," said
Moyers. "Greatness is a
question of how far we are
from where we ought to be."
He painted a picture of
America that left little room
for pride in the present or
optimism over the future.
In 30 years, the population
of the U.S. will double. Nearly
half of the population of the
world go to bed hungry every
night, he said in his Coliseum
address.
To merely stay even with
the predicted famines, he said,
the world needs to triple food
promotion.
The U.S. has six per cent of
the world's population, but
uses 40 per cent of the world's
resources. While two-thirds of
the world makes less than $200
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Front-row spectator
Rozman wins
Stephen L. Rozman.,
assistant professor of political
science, won the 1971
Outstanding Professor Award
of the Nebraska Builders.
The seventh annual award,
announced during the honors
convocation Tuesday, carries a
$500 award raised by student
contributions.
"I want to thank the
students for this vote of
confidence," Rozman said in
accepting the award.
"The power of the vote is
very strong-it communicates.
Now please vote in favor of the
Peace Treaty to help end the
war."
a year, the U.S. considers
$3,000 a poverty level.
In four years, he continued,
the dependent children of the
underdevloped countries will
equal the population of the
entire developed world.
And the U.S. is falling
behind Russia and some
European countries in per
capita housing construction,
with 40 per cent of the housing
in Washington, D.C., below
standard.
Movers, former publisher of
Newsday a Long Island, N. Y.
tabloid newspaper, described
how far this country is from
greatness with a pair of
newspaper stories: One told of
the 'milestone' achieved by
reaching a trillion dollar gross
national product. The other
story, in the same issue,
reported that one out of four
Americans over 65 live at a
poverty level.
The current GNP includes
the same number of goods as
last year's, he said, but these
goods cost $15 billion a year
more. "This is not a milestone,
but a gallstone," he said to the
crowd of more than 1 ,500.
He quoted Thomas Huxley,
who visited the U.S. over a
century ago: "Size is not
grandeur, and territory does
not make a nation."
Moyers criticized President
Richard M. Nixon's Cambodian
incursion saying "our manhood
is at stake."
He said the My Lai massacre
is a clear example of the way
society has unfeelingly reduced
people to "its" and "thems."
Placing people in groups of
"them" - calling all hardhats
pro-war or all students
radical-"is the most dangerous
tendency we face," Moyers
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Rozman . . . thanks for the vote of confidence.
outstanding prof essor award
Rozman has been told by
the Board of Regents that his
contract will not be renewed
because of his activities during
last May's anti-war protest.
Rozman was nominated
along with Charles Adams,
professor of animal science,
and William Colville, profjssor
of agronomy. All students were
eligible to vote on the three
professors who were
nominated by living units.
The award is made on the
basis of outstanding teaching
methods and making a valuable
contribution to the University.
The University Foundation
said.
He said Apollo 8 gave "a
view of the earth only God has
seen, an earth with no racial
lines or articifial political
boundaries.
"We are all members of the
same human family and in the
fundamental truth of things we
are all alike," he said.
Americans must be
possessed by two passions if
improvement is to come, he
continued. "We must put man
back where he once stood-at
the focus of life-we must
reassert our power over things.
And we must reaffirm the idea
of community-the idea of
living as one family."
"Technology is neutral," he
told the students. "Your task is
to bring it to life, then
technology will be obedient to
man and we will never need to
say: we had to destroy this
village in order to save it."
"It is the university which
shapes the estimate of man
that we live by" he continued.
If the university only produces
experts and specialists, he said,
it is only a service to industry,
not an educational process.
"Man was meant to be a master
of science, not its prisoner," he
said.
"It is the university where
the grist for a human society
must exist," Moyers said. We
need to look beyond our
affluence, he said, and make
the world our concern. We
need a perspective beyond our
personal and national interests.
Young people today are not
saying "my country, right or
wrong," he said. They are
saying if this country is wrong,
then they are going to fight to
make it right.
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cited five professors at the
convocation for distinguished
teaching. The selection process
involved students, faculty, and
administrators.
Each received $1,000 and a
medallion. The Annis Chaikin
Sorensen Award for
distinguished teaching in the
humanities was presented to
Larry Lusk, associate professor
of piano.
The other recipients were:
Adams; U.E. Wendorff,
associate professor of
agricultural engineering;
Theodore Roesler, professor of
economics; and George Wolf,
assistant professor of English.