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Dear editor.
Do you feel frustrated, alone, powerless?
Thousands of students and people in
Nebraska know that corporations are
destroying their environment by dumping waste
materials into the Platte River, they know that
faulty products are being produced and sold
and they know that women are being paid less
for doing the same jobs as men.
They know that these problems exist but
feel powerless and frustrated trying to
implement effective change in a system that
virtually refuses to listen to the individual.
Funds are often insufficient to hire lawyers
to defend the individual against discrimination.
Insufficient research data and evidence impedes
many smaller groups from ever attempting to
right the wrongs incurred against them.
Under the direction of Thomas Monaghan, a
third-year law student and Deanne Canar, a
graduate student in social work. The students at
UNL are well under way in organizing a PIRG
(Public Interest Research Group) in Lincoln.
Their purpose is to educate the people of
Nebraska concerning consumer welfare,
discrimination, environmental preservation,
health, welfare, housing and corporate
responsibility and to organize together as an
effective vehicle to implement change in these
areas.
Presently, their main concern. is to obtain
sufficient funds to maintain a full-time paid
staff and to hire professional lawyers, natural
and social scientists and engineers to represent
their cases in court by filing suits against
corporations and individuals who continue to
ignore laws and regulations.
Petitions will be circulated among students
at UNL requesting an increase in student fees to
help fund PIRG. When a sufficient number have
signed, the petition will be taken to the Board
of Regents requesting the fee increase.
Joe Highland, who is on Ralph Nader's staff,
will speak about forming a PIRG this Thursday
at 7:30 p.m. in Love Library Auditorium.
Highland is advisor to PIRG groups in Iowa,
Wisconsin, South Carolina and Rhode Island.
Barb Fischbach
Dear editor.
The article in your Friday edition
concerning the illegal placement of McGovern
campaign literature in dorm mailboxes
should be of concern to all members of the
University community. We of the Youth
Coalition for Muskie are more immediately
affected by the mailbox-stuffing episode. We
want to take this opportunity, since it seems
that we will not be allowed to place our
candidate's literature in the boxes, to pursue
the question of who is responsible for the
violation.
Steve Tiwald is responsible for the statewide
McGovern organization. He has been active in
dorm governance for many years, and he knows
the regulations forbid putting "persuasive"
literature in dorm mailboxes. Yet his campus
organization went ahead with the project.
Mary Kris Jensen is responsible for the
university organization. She was the one who
ordered the stuffing done. She claims she was
ignorant of the dorm regulations. If we buy
that, which we don't have to do, we still have
to place most of the responsibility on her
shoulders.
The final responsibility for this unfortunate
incident must lie with the leaders of the
McGovern organization, both campus and
statewide. It seems to us that Tiwald and
Jensen must re-evaluate their entire strategy,
because if they persist in such obvious
violations of the rules of fair play sooner or
later such tactics will backfire.
Now about those dorm residents who were
greeted last week by . the pamphlets which
raised all this controversy. We'd like to save our
last word for them: we know exactly how you
feel, folks. We think the people who stuffed
your mailboxes were treating you like
consumers who were to be sold a product, no
matter how cynical be the method of selling.
We object to that kind of campaigning, and we
pledge that the Youth Coalition for Muskie
won't ever be guilty of it. We'll always
remember to treat you with the respect you
deserve.
We think that if our McGovern friends
would do the same this would turn out to be a
much more meaningful campaign.
Roy Baldwin and
Allen Bricker,
Youth Coalition
for Muskie
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Health Center
probe
Two investigations have been recently
launched into the operations of the University
Health Center. Both the Council on Student
Life and the Board of Regents are investigating
the center, but for different reasons.
CSL is looking Into ways of improving
student input into the health service. This is
really nothing new and is welcomed by those
who believe in consumer input. This includes
the administrators at the Health Center.
For the past decade or longer questionaires
have been sent to more than 2,000 students
each year to get feelings and ideas on the
Health Center. Many changes in service have
come from the answers to these questions.
There are also faculty, staff and student
councils which advise the center and help to
determine the direction of its policies. Also
providing input into the center are the health
aides who represent the center in campus living
units.
The center has been constantly looking for
ways to improve its service. CSL proposals wiU
probably be gladly accepted by the center
administrators.
A second probe, by the Board of Regents,
may or may not be based on honorable
grounds. There is a question of motive and
intent in the Regemis study.
In his proposal for the study President D. B.
Varner mentioned concern over the policies of
the center concerning the distribution of
contraceptives and contraceptive information.
WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 10, 1971
The question of contraception for students,
particularly unmarried ones, is decidedly
ticklish politically. Thus it isn't surprising that
the Board is concerned over what is happening
in this area.
What the investigation wBI find is that the
center here will give contraceptive pills to
women students, married or not. There is a set
procedure for all women who want birth
control pills.
Any woman married or unmarried, is
counseled and tested and can get the pill if it is
medically advisable. Parents are not invoked.
This will probably disturb the Regents.
But the policy is reasonable. It is evident
that if someone has decided they need
contraception it will be best for them to get it
if medically advisable.
The matter of birth control for women, all
women, should be considered strictly between
the woman and her doctor. There is no place
for "in loco parentis" in a medical relationship.
The committee investigating the practices of
the center is made up of the two doctors on the
Board. It will be interesting to see from their
findings and suggestions whether they have
been motived by professional ethics or political
expediency.
Considered from a professional standpoint
the committee can do little more than give the
Health Center a commendation for adequate
handling of the increased demands of recent
years.
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