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Criticism of the UNL Summer Orientation
Program has given rise to a much larger issue.
Selection of the student hosts for the program has
been alleged to be not representative of all UNL
students. The program planners have been accused of
not seeking student government input, of improperly
using student fees. Critics are also saying that a large
number of "well qualified, and in fact more qualified
persons" were excluded before the final selection
process.
Many of these criticisms are also applicable to
many other selection procedures used on this campus
to fill many other committee and advisory board
positions.
There has been an increasing opportunity for
student input into the operation of academic
institutions over the last five years. Now there are
almost as many processes for the selection of student
participants as there are positions.
Faculty senate committee positions are filled by
ASUN appointment. The publications board, which
chooses editors of the Daily Nebraskan and
Cornhusker yearbook, selects most of its own student
members on a three year rotating basis. Next year,
after the adoption of a report recently approved by
the Board of Regents, all of the student members of
the Pub Board will be appointed by the Council on
Student Life. Other student service positions are
filled by administrative appointment through the
chancellor's or president's offices.
What could be a cohesive, concerted effort by a
group of students attempting to influence policy
within the University turns out to be a hodge-podge
of prima donnas accountable to no one. Students do
not have the input into the innerworkings of the
University. Someone, somewhere has seen that
student power is derived from and diffused over a
vast area of organizations, offices and structures.
All committee appointments, advisory positions,
student government officals and summer orientation
hosts should be chosen by a central student group
responsible to the entire student population. That
kind of student organizational structure now exists.
ASUN has the faculties to handle this combined
chore.
Everyone in the University community, from the
Board of Regents on down must realize the
importance of centralized student organization and
its extreme value toward the improvement of the
institution. Only then will all be able to successfully
work toward the common goal of improvement of
the institution.
Barry Pijger
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Once upon a time, the country was in terrible shape. The
people were filled with vague unease, obscure tears and
nameless forebodings.
For they had lost faith in Their Old Leaders.
Their Old Leaders had sent their sons off, flags frying, to
fight a Glorious War. But it had been long and Moody and now
it all seemed for naught.
And the people felt betrayed by Their Old Leaders.
They felt, too, that Law and Order had broken down. Riots
and demonstrations swept the land. The people no longer felt
safe in their homes and streets. Yet it seemed nothing was
done.
And the people blamed Their Old Leaders.
Unemployment was widespread. Inflation spirited. Taxes
soared. No matter how hard an honest man worked. Big
Business and Big Government took it all away.
So the people cursed Their Old Leaders.
All around them, too, the people saw Their Old Values
crumbling. Artists painted pictures the people couldn't
comprehend. Satirical plays attacked the traditional virtues
and even National Pride. The movie screens showed little but
nakedness, violence and decadence. And the young were
wrathful and rebellious, going off on strange new paths the
people didn't understand.
To the people, the country appeared rootless and drifting,
being carried along by mysterious currents to God-knows-what
frightening depths with no one in control. And Their Old
Leaders just kept saying The Old Answers would work.
But the people no longer believed Their Old Leaders.
Then in the South, a new Leader arose -a New Leader
admirably suited to the times.
The New Leader was a short, dark, intense man. An avowed
racist, he headed a small Southern party. His initial attempts
to depose The Old Leaders failed miserably. For be had little
nationwide appeal.
At first, The Old Leaders laughed at him. The inteDectuals
poked fun at him. The bureaucrats ignored him. The experts
wrote him off as merely another Southern demagogue.
But as the malaise that infected the country deepened, so
did The New Leader's appeaL
Partly it was his racism. It nude tome people feel better to
think they were inheritantly superior to the minorities in their
midst.
But mostly it was his uncanny ability to capitalize on the
people's distrust of Their Old Leaders and their
disillusionment with The Old Answers to the country's
growing problems.
The New Leader was a fiery, spell-binding speaker. His
rallies were masterpieces of showmanship. His vote grew His
crowds swelled. And he to id them what they wanted to hear.
He told then aS their troubles were caused by Their Old
Leaders and the intellectuals and the bureaucrats and the
experts and the fuzzy-minded way they were running thmgs.
And he told them that once in power, be would throw out
these Wywed nincompoops and with a firm hand restore
L and Order, the Old Values and National Pride.
For what he promised the people was what they
desperately wanted in these times of vague unease, obscure
fears and nameless forebodings. He promised them Authority.
ChaofGeny" Adolph HuJer became
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