Unaffiliated
candidates
challenge
parties
I ASUN
by Duane Leibhart
If figures tell all, there seems to be less of everything in this
spring's ASUN election than in last year's election.
Last spring there were a total of 84 ASUN candidates up
for election-this year only 76. There were five presidential
candidates last year and four this year; five parties last spring
and four this year.
Eight students were trying for re-election as senators last
year but this year only three incumbents are on the ballot. The
biggest drop was in the number of candidates running
independently. Neatly 37 per cent ran independently last year
and this year the independents represent about 17 per cent of
the total ASUN candidates.
One reason for the decrease in the number of independents
running could probably be tied to the success of last year's
very strong University Coalition Party. That party won all
three executive positons and 20 or the 35 ASUN senatorial
posts.
Many of the independent candidates were elected because
there were only enough candidates running to fill the alloted
seats in their colleges.
Presidental candidate Bill Schwartzkopf ran independently
in the last two elections and was elected senator. This year he
has formed the Concerned Students party.
Schwartzkopf said the general record of independent
candidates at the polls shows an independent candidate usually
doesn't win.
"Quite a lot of people will vote an all party ticket if they
know one or two of the candidates in that party, "he said.
All University Party presidential candidate Sen. Roy
Baldwin said the ability of organized parties to elect their
members has been proven in the last two years. Party members
can work together to get elected, he said.
"We don't just speak for ourselves, but for all 16 people in
the party whenever we go out," he added. Running in a party is
the most honest for students, he stated, they know what the
basic philosophy of each candidate is just by looking at the
platform.
Independent second vice presidential candidate Doug
Voegler is the only unaffiliated executive candidate running
this year. He ran for the ASUN presidential slot last spring as an
independent.
Voegler said the main purpose of parties running a second
vice presidential candidate has been to use the $50 he is
alloted in campaign expenditures to absorb the excessive
expenditures of the other executive candidates.
Each ASUN executive is allowed to spend $50 on his
personal campaign. However, the three executives of one party
may pool their money. Senators and advisory board candidates
can spend only $35 on their individual campaigns and may not
pool their funds.
Poorhouse renews attack
Lincoln's Poorhouse Coalition took more verbal pokes at
the University Wednesday contending NU officials had failed
to fulfill promises made to low-income Lincoln tenants at a
meeting a month ago.
In a letter addressed to NU President D.B. Varner, the
coaliton accused the University of mismanaging a low-income
housing study. It also said the University had not complied
with a coalition request for copies of its preliminary five-year
development plan.
The letter also blasted the University for not activating a
regents housing study committee, although it said two board
meetings have passed since the promise to activate the
committee was made.
A University spokesman said Wednesday that the study the
letter referred to was not yet underway.
Harry Allen, of the instututional research office, said a
federal grant to finance the study has been requested, but the
Housing and Urban Development office has not yet answered
the request.
Responding to charges against the housing study
committee, Regent Ed Schwartzkopf, head of the committee,
said there is little point in meeting before the study can be
made and the results compiled
Before the University can seek funds to remedy the housing
situation, the exact nature of the problem must be known, he
said.
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Unicameral
advances
construction
bill
Nebraska senators rushing
to get essential legislation
passed before the session's end
advanced from general file the
state's capital construction bill
Thursday afternoon.
After rejecting on a narrow
18-22 vote the addition of $3.2
million for the construction of
a new Law College building on
the UNL campus, senators gave
unanimous first round approval
to LB 1513.
The Unicameral added
$300,000 to the
Appropriations Committee's
initial recommendation of just
about $13 million in total
construction funds for the next
fiscal year.
Of the $4.9 million
recommended for the UNL
campus, $3.3 million would go
for an addition to Love
Memorial Library. A new home
economics building on East
Campus would receive $1.4
million in state funds.
The remaining $180,000
UNL funds would be spent on
remodeling Ferguson Hall.
Having finished 51 of their
constitutional limit of 60
working days, state senators
have begun starting work a half
hour early in the mornings and
cutting back on their noon
recess.
Final adjournment could
come by the end of March
unless senators decide to take a
long recess with one or two
days left in an attempt to avert
gubernatorial vetos on any
bills.
FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1972
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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
