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Two-way threat
All three sides scored a victory late Saturday night
as Chancellor James H. Zumberge released plans
effective immediately to revise one part of the RHA
hours policy and re-interpret another.
The regents, several top administrators and a large
number of students have much to gain by the change
in policy. Students have been given more
responsibility, the resolution of the lack of clarity in
the old policy will make the new one easier to
administrate and a possibily disastrous confrontation
between students and the University was avoided.
If compromise solutions to problems are ever
successful, this one certainly has excellent chances of
survival. The diligence with which the policy change
was sought by RHA executives and the UNL
Chancellor are a credit to both parties.
The Board of Regents will now be faced with a
tough decision come their next meeting March 11.
They will presumably be acting upon the results of
the parent-student survey and will most likely be in a
position to act one way or another on the RHA
policy change promulgated by Chancellor Zumberge's
office.
The board must be aware of the gravity of its
actions in regards to the visitation idea. Should their
next decision be unfavorable to students, further
student reprisals may definitely be threatened.
Threats are nothing new to the Board of Regents.
The threat of mass violation of visitiation policy did
manage to turn the tables a bit, though.
The most recent threat that members of the Board
of Regents have dealt with has come from their own
ranks. The threat by certain regents to terminate
student fees was issued only a short time ago. It
works both ways.
If any regents termed the visitation violation
threat irresponsible, one can only wonder what could
be said about their threats to terminate certain
student fees.
The self determination of a student's own social
environment
The self determination of a student's own social
environment is of vital concern here. The faith that
the Board of Regents has in UNL students will
become apparent once solutions have been reached
with both the fee issue and the visitation question. If
the Board indeed considers the "majority of students
to be mature individuals", they -in good conscience
can only act in response to the needs of students as
stated by students.
Barry Pilger
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Most scrutable, these Chinese!
Much to the surprise of all the experts, Nixon's trip to
China actually resulted in tremendous changes in, to start
with, Nixon.
The problem was the parties, late hours and the numerous
toasts in the insidious Chinese liquor, mao tai. Nixon had
devoted his entire adult life to avoiding parties, late hours and
hard liquor. So he simply wasn't prepared.
Anyone who watched the television coverage of the very
first banquet in Peking could clearly see what was happening.
After 30 or 40 toasts in mao tai, Nixon suddenly left the main
table and began wandering around the room, clinking the glass
of whomever he could reach. "Seize the day, boys!" he
appeared to be saying. "Bottoms up!"
What happened to Nixon as a result of this riotous living
should have been expected. It happens to virtually everyone
who first tries partying, late hours and strong drink late in life.
He liked it.
The first person to have any inkling of the change that had
overtaken Nixon was, of course, Ms. Nixon.
They were in the East Room one evening not a week after
their return from China, she later confided to friends, when
she put down her knitting and said to him as was her nightly
custom: "It's 1 0 o'clock, dear-time for your Ovaltine."
Nixon, who had been sitting there with a far-away look in
his eye, suddenly clenched his fist and pounded it on the arm
of his chair. "The hell with my Ovaltine," he cried, leaping up,
"where's the Scotch?"
The last thing Ms. Nixon remembers before falling asleep is
Nixon lying on the couch, one shoe off, tie askew, drink in
hand and chewing on a cigar while talking to Henry Kissinger
on the telephone:
"Hank, baby, you're a real swinger. Tell me another one of
your traveling salesman jokes. 1 know it's 3 a.m., but they
really make me laugh and laugh. Pat, wait till you hear this
one. Its about this traveling salesman who comes to this
farmhouse and . . ."
The next morning the President's daily 7:30 a.m. staff
briefing was cancelled. In fact, it was never held again.
FvS., rPubllC wuas ""'w,re of ,he cnan8e in their Chief
Executive for months. There were naturally rumors. For one
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"L !?cluBd 'M St- John, Jackie Gle.son .nd other
went oS 1 PreM W" b"red from coverm wh,t
But the change became obvious when a erinnine Nion
appeared on television wearing sideburnl below h"s ea s !
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tti "egan cheerfully.
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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1972