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THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1971
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA VOL 94 NO. 94
ASIIM picks 3 for search
ASUN has selected the three students
who will serve on the Presidential Search
Committee.
John Hansen, who is active with the Free
Speech Movement and helps produce the
Informer, was picked along with law student
Eric Hultman. Outgoing ASUN President
Steve Tiwald will also serve on the Search
Committee.
The Committee will consist of three
students, five faculty, a Dean, a Director, a
member of the Chancellor's staff, an
alumnus, a representative from student
affairs and non-voting members from UNO
andthe Medical Center. They are charged
with finding a replacement for President
Joseph Soshnik, who is leaving the
University for a job in business.
In other action, the Senate approved Sen.
Kathy Lonnquist's resolution for
endorsement of the Lincoln Walk for
Development Committee's May 1 program.
The Walk for Development is designed to
draw attention to the problems of world
poverty and raise funds to alleviate it.
Individuals solicit contributions from various
sponsors for each mile they walk along a
mapped out route on May 1.
The approval of new appointees to the
Student Court was tabled until the next
meeting. Appointees are Mike Rumbaugh, Al
Lewis, John Marker, Lynn Webster,
Lonnquist, Chris Hanus, and Mary Langdon.
Sen. Roy Baldwin, who is a member of
Publications Board, criticized the ASUN
Executives for not consulting Pub Board
before introducing the bill to put the Daily
Nebraskan student fees on the ballot.
Treasurer Bob Johnson reported that
ASUN had about $8,000 left in its account.
In Johnson's words, that "puts us in pretty
good shape for the rest of the year."
Treaty symbolic or disruptive?
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by STEVE STRASSER
Staff Writer
The People's Peace Treaty,
destined to be either ratified or
rejected by NU students in the
spring elections Wednesday, is
either a symbolic anti-war
gesture or a mandate for
disruption, depending on
which side of the fence you're
on.
"There's nothing
unconstitutional or illegal
about this treaty," said NU law
student Leroy Shuster, a
member of the Peace Treaty
Committee that is trying to get
the treaty ratified on this
campus. "It's just another
symoblic vay for people to
show they want peace. We
aren't trying to negotiate an
official treaty."
But NU senior Terry
Cannon, state chairman of the
conservative Young Americans
for Freedom (YAF), said "the
whole concept of private
individuals making treaties is
unconstitutional.'
CANNON SAID the YAF
would campaign extensively
against acceptance of the
treaty. "There's not one point
made in that treaty not
endorsed by the Provisional
Revolutionary Government,
the political arm of the Viet
Cong," he said.
Shuster admitted the treaty
agrees with the Hanoi line in
demanding a publicized deadline
for American troop
withdrawal, but added "that's
not only what is demanded by
North Vietnam, but it's what is
needed by people here too."
Referring to President
Richard M. Nixon's
Vietnarriization policy, Shunter
said the peace treaty's specific
proposals demonstrate
"Americans are fed up to the
teeth with peace plans that
don't bring peace."
YAF's Cannon said one
specific proposal called for
imposition of a coalition
government. He said to impose
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Exob aide faces
critics9 barrage
by BART BECKER "
Staff Writer
Verbal sparks flew Wednesday afternoon as Gov. J. J.
Exon's administrative assistant met with students and faculty
at the Centennial College.
John L. Sullivan faced a barrage of questions, comments
and criticisms dealing with the Exon Administration's handling
of a number of issues. Interest centered on the problems
surrounding the controversial budget cuts the governor has
proposed for the University.
Sullivan mentioned statistics from several magazines and
warned that "the educational delivery system must face up to
serious reform or it is going to go bankrupt.
"WE CANT counterfeit enough money to keep up." he
continued. "Education needs to develop bold new approaches
and if that isn't done we are not only jeopardizing our state,
we are jeopardizing our young people."
The governor's representative utilized an overhead projector
to show charts of various budgetary factors and comparisons
wih other Big Eight universities.
His chart of the NU budget from 1963 to 1971 indicated
"we've had substantial increases" and showed the 1971 budget
with an increase of 8.5 per cent.
However, Robert E. Knoll, a professor in the Centennial
Program took issue.
"THESE FIGURES are deceptive," charged Knoll. "We
have, in fact, a decrease in general funds.So you're asking the
University-the students-to make up that increase."
Exon's administrative assistant compared NU tuition to
that of other Big Eight schools and noted that the University's
administrators had recommended the raise in tuition to S432
per year.
At that point in the rap session, a student said that general
funding doesn't take care of services, like the health center or
the Nebraska Union. While these sorts of services are included
in tuition at many other schools, NU students pay additional
fees.
Said Sullivan: "There are people who pretend the only
variable is how much money we are spending. We think
differently."
KNOLL CHALLENGED Sullivan's reasoning. "One variable
might be the student-faculty ratio. But that comes back to
money. Another might be the improvement and addition of
facilities. But that, too, comes back to money. I think money
is a central issue.
He continued: "The significant factor is this:
The Universities of Colorado and Kansas, for instance have
received half-again as much money per capita. That's why
they're ahead of us in graduate programs. "By comparative
figures we haven't kept up. In fact, we've fallen behind."
A student followed Knoll's argument, "Colorado and
Kansas have only to maintain their programs. We're starting
from scratch."
When students complained of buildings on the Lincoln
campus being in states of disrepair, specifically Bessey Hall and
Temple Building, Sullivan reiterated "we've been told that
your educational delivery system is somewhat less than you
wish "
SULLIVAN DISCOUNTED the idea that Exon had set
out to chastise the University.
The idea that Exon had "lethally attacked the budget
disturbed the governor, Sullivan said. He noted that Exon is
bothered by the idea that he has chosen the University as a
whipping boy.
Sullivan also made the point that the budget proposal
provides money for an average of 24 students per class and a
15-hour teaching load for instructors.
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